Highlights of Financial Stability Report
Overall assessment of systemic risks
- India’s financial system remains stable.
- Commodities space is firming up.
- Increased geopolitical risks imply likely volatility in commodity prices.
- Notwithstanding the efforts to normalise monetary policy by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, financial conditions in the advanced economies remain accommodative
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Global and domestic macro-financial risks
- Picking up Export. With picking up of global economy growth, in the emerging market, exports are growing at their fastest clip in six years on the back of a pick-up in global growth.
- Structural changes: Information technology-led growth is possibly making the world a lot more unequal.
- Rebounding Domestic growth in 2017-18:Q2 after initial hiccups due to GST and Demonetization
- Investment climate ( factors may have +ve effect )
- ‘the decline in number and cost of stalled projects in 2017-18:Q2’,
- ‘the efforts to improve the quality of government expenditure’,
- ‘ease of doing business ranking’,
- ‘India’s sovereign rating upgrade by Moody’s’
- ‘bank recapitalisation announcement’
- Fund Flow
- Large fund flow to both equity and debt mutual funds.
- Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) flows into the capital market also remained buoyant with a greater preference for debt
Financial Institutions: Performance and risks
- Risk banking sector remained elevated due to asset quality concerns
Credit Growth
- Credit growth of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) showed an improvement between March and September 2017,
- Public sector banks (PSBs) continued to lag behind their private sector peers.
- Gross non-performing advances (GNPA) ratio and the stressed advances ratio of the banking sector increased between March 2017 and September 2017
- Stressed assets = NPAs + Restructured loans
- Between March and September 2017, GNPA ratio of SCB increased from 9.6% to 10.2% and the stressed advances ratio marginally increased from 12.1% to 12.2%.
- Public sector banks (PSBs) registered GNPA ratio at 13.5 per cent and stressed advances ratio at 16.2 per cent in September 2017.
- Stress Test suggest that GNPAs ratio of the banking sector may rise from 2% in September 2017 to 10.8% in March 2018 and further to 11.1% by September 2018
- Major contribution in GNPA is from industries. 2nd highest contributor i.e. Agriculture is no-where near to it.
- Minning is the biggest contributer in NPA
- Share of large borrowers both in total SCBs’ loans as well as GNPAs declined between March and September 2017.
- GNPAs of the NBFC sector as a percentage of total advances increased between March 2017 and September 2017.
- Stress loans to agriculture have risen since March 2017 indicating rural distress.
ROA
- SCB’s ROA = 0.4% ( remained unchanged between March and September 2017)
- PSB’s ROA = -ve
Capital to risk-weighted assets ratio (CRAR)
- Improved from 13.6% to 13.9% between March 2017 and September 2017.
Degree of Interconnectedness
- The network analysis indicates that the degree of interconnectedness in the banking system has decreased gradually since 2012.
- The joint solvency-liquidity contagion analysis shows that the losses due to default of a bank have declined.
- Banking Stability Index (BSI): “the expected number of banks that could become distressed given that at least one bank has become distressed”-> It has decreased.
Size in Financial System in term of bilateral exposure:
- SCBs (47%) > AMC-MFs > NBFCs > insurance companies > HFCs > AIFIs
*AMC-MFs = Asset Management Companies Managing Mutual Funds; NBFCs =Non-Banking Financial Companies; HFCs – Housing Finance Companies and AIFIs= All-India Financial Institutions.
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