The RBI's conscious steps to reduce the repo rate have also
lowered the marginal cost of fund-based lending rate across banks, ratings
agency said.
It is imperative
for banks to expand their balance sheets and revive credit offtake instead of
just concentrating on asset quality, says a report.
The RBI's
conscious steps to reduce the repo rate have also lowered the marginal cost of
fund-based lending rate across banks, ratings agency India Ratings and Research
said in a note.
The central
bank has reduced repo rate by 250 basis points since February 2019.
However, the transmission of rate cuts has been uneven among private and public
sector banks, the note said.
"We believe
that it will be imperative for banks to expand balance sheets and
simultaneously revive credit offtake, rather than focusing only on asset
quality," the agency said in its July edition of Credit Market Tracker.
The recent
Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by RBI said credit growth (y-o-y) of
banks, which had considerably weakened during the first half of FY20, slid
further to 5.9 per cent by March 2020 and remained muted up to early June 2020.
India Ratings said
the asset quality of banks would be a critical factor to watch out for from the
second quarter of the current fiscal when the loan moratorium ends.
The Reserve Bank of
India (RBI) had announced moratorium on repayment of term loans from March 1,
2020 till August 31, 2020.
The FSR said the
gross NPA ratio of all banks may increase from 8.5 per cent in March 2020 to
12.5 per cent by March 2021 under the baseline scenario.
"If the
macroeconomic environment worsens further, the ratio may escalate to 14.7 per
cent under the very severely stressed scenario," it had stated.
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