Bank earnings: Loan growth to improve, SC gives clarity on asset quality

Lenders are expected to show quarter on quarter improvement in loan growth, say analysts.

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Banks | asset quality review | Q4 Results

Manojit Saha  |  Mumbai 

India’s reviving economy could help banks to improve loan demand sequentially even if margins may come under pressure during the January-March quarter of the previous financial year, analysts said. However, mark-to-market losses could dent profitability for the banks due to hardening bond yields.

Bond yields started heading north after the government announced a borrowing programme of Rs 12 trillion during the Union budget for 2021-22. Between February and March, bond yields hardened by around 25 bps which could result in marked-to-market losses on banks in the bond ...

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First Published: Mon, April 12 2021. 10:55 IST
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