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UCO Bank Q4 net jumps over 3-fold to `312 cr as bad loans fall

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NEW DELHI: State-owned UCO Bank on Friday posted an over three-fold jump in net profit at Rs 312.18 crore for the quarter ended March 2022 as a fall in bad loans lowered the provisioni­ng requiremen­t.

The lender had posted a net profit of Rs 80 crore in the correspond­ing quarter a year ago.

Total income during the fourth quarter of 2021-22 was, however, down at Rs 4,362 crore, as against Rs 4,637 crore in the year-ago period, UCO Bank said in a regulatory filing.

For the full fiscal FY22, the bank’s net profit grew more than five times to Rs 930 crore from Rs 167 crore in FY21.

Total income during the year was at Rs 18,082 crore, up from Rs 17,870 crore in the preceding fiscal.

The lender brought down its bad assets portion significan­tly as the gross non-performing assets (NPAS) came in at 7.89 per cent by end of March 2022, as against 9.59 per cent by end of March 2021.

Value-wise, the gross NPAS fell to Rs 10,237 crore from Rs 11,352 crore. Similarly, the net NPAS were down at 2.70 per cent (Rs 3,316 crore) from 3.94 per cent (Rs 4,390 crore).

Thus, the provisioni­ng for tax and other contingenc­ies also fell to Rs 466 crore in Q4 FY22 from Rs 982 crore earlier.

Besides, the Kolkata-headquarte­red lender said it is holding Rs 4,707.36 crore provisions (including technical write-offs) — 100 per cent of the requiremen­t for accounts covered under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).

NEW DELHI: Private sector Bandhan Bank on Friday reported a multi-fold jump in its net profit at Rs 1,902.30 crore in the quarter ended March 2022.

The bank had posted a net profit of Rs 103 crore in the yearago quarter.

Total income of the bank in Q4FY22 rose by 43 per cent to Rs 3,504.2 crore, as against Rs 2,457.4 crore in the same period of FY21, Bandhan Bank said in a regulatory filing.

Net interest income during the quarter rose by 45 per cent to Rs 2,539.8 crore, while non-interest income grew by 38 per cent to Rs 964.4 crore, the bank said.

On asset quality, there was a slight improvemen­t with the gross non-performing assets (NPAS) falling to 6.46 per cent of the gross advances as of March 31, 2022, from 6.81 per cent by March 2021.

Net NPAS or bad loans reduced significan­tly to 1.66 per cent, from 3.51 per cent.

“Bank has seen best ever quarterly performanc­e during the quarter backed by robust all round operating performanc­e and lower credit costs,” Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, MD and CEO of Bandhan Bank said.

 ?? ?? Soma Sankara Prasad, MD and CEO, UCO Bank
Soma Sankara Prasad, MD and CEO, UCO Bank
 ?? ?? Bandhan Bank MD & CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh
Bandhan Bank MD & CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh

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