Thanks @krishnendu
It’s good that they have got good popularity among women borrowers and senior citizen depositors.
One more question, as you are from West Bengal please answer.
What kind of bonhomie Bandhan had with political parties out there especially with TMC ?
Is there any possibility that in near future they may take terrible populistic call which spoils Bandhan’s party?
Your responses are very much appreciated.
We should try to understand the concept of microfinancing. How bandhan worked for last 18 years. How it is evolving now. A borrower can get up to INR 10,000 under Suraksha Microloan scheme which can be repaid over a year. There are Suchana Microloan, Srishti Microloan where borrower can get 35K or 25K loans. HDFC or SBI is not into such microfinancing.
You need to research about Mr. Ghosh and how he started, you will get your answer.
In this thread, detail research and data points available about bandhan. Would suggest to study them.
Yes. Since he reduced the stake by merging with Gruh.
Concerns over the near-term impact of its merger with Gruh Finance and the pending promoter stake dilution among others, has weighed on investor sentiment for Bandhan Bank, which had a great listing in March last year. With a fall of over 16 per cent in its share price in the last three months, Bandhan Bank has also underperformed the Nifty Bank index that fell by 9 per cent during the same period. The correction, however, has led to a sharp fall in the valuation of the bank’s stock. It currently trades at 3.6 times FY21 estimated book value, which is an 18 per cent discount to its average one-year forward valuation since listing and a sharp 42 per cent discount to its peak valuation.
Though the Gruh Finance merger, which is expected to be completed over the next two quarters, would impact earnings growth to some extent, Bandhan’s long-term return profile remains intact.
Emkay Research’s recent note says, “We like Bandhan Bank due to its remarkable liability ramp-up among SFBs (small finance banks), asset diversification strategy away from MFI (microfinance institutions) and a sustainably higher return on asset (RoA)/return on equity (RoE) business model.”
Even over the next two years, Bandhan’s calculated RoA would remain almost at FY19 levels of 3.9 times levels as compared to below 2 times in case of other small banks, say analysts.
Besides a likely strong loan book growth, healthy liability franchise and lowering operating expenditure improves Bandhan’s return ratio outlook. Given the pricing power, mainly in the micro finance business, maintaining deposit base going ahead, is unlikely to be tough. Even in June 2019 quarter, Bandhan’s deposit base grew by 42 per cent year-on-year versus low double-digit growth for the entire banking sector.
Higher deposit base would also help curtail margin pressure expected from the lowering of its high-margin microfinance book. The latter’s share in overall loan book is expected to decline to around 50 per cent over the medium term from 86 per cent at present.
Overall, long-term investors could bottom fish on corrections. The lowering of promoter stake, however, would be key to watch.
Economic Times: Microfinance reaching less than 20% of potential household: Equifax’s Manu Sehgal.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds a press conference after meeting heads of private banks in New Delhi today. Small finance banks have not faced any blip in one year, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman. Bandhan Bank’s C Ghosh hopes for a better festive season. Demand to take off in festive season in this quarter and next quarter, he said.
Private sector banks to join govt’s loan outreach programme.Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar
invited private sector banks to join
the outreach programme in 400 dis-
tricts for potential lending. The first
phase of the programme will start in
250 districts from October 3-7, he
said. The next phase will begin
around Diwali. Maintaining that
there was no liquidity issue, Kumar
said the outreach programme was
being organised to take advantage of
the festival season.
“We see a huge opportunity in the
outreach programme announced by
the government. We feel that this is
an opportunity for us to do our dhar-
ma,” Kotak Bank ViceChairman and
Managing Director Uday Kotak said.
The finance minister indicated
that the economic slowdown seemed
to have bottomed out and the com-
ing festive season would help the
economy start looking up.
Approval of the National Company Law Tribunal, Bench at Kolkata (‘NCLT Kolkata’) to the scheme of amalgamation of GRUH Finance Limited (‘GRUH Finance’) into and with Bandhan Bank Limited (‘Bank’) under Sections 230 to 232 of the Companies Act, 2013 (including the Companies (Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations) Rules, 2016) and other relevant provisions under applicable law (“Scheme of Amalgamation”)
Is this the last step of series of approvals required for the actual merger ? Or do we know if any other body is pending to approve the merger.
Disc: Holding Gruh in lieu of Bandhan at higher levels - 5% of PF
This was the last step from Kolkata NCLT. All set to merge both company balance sheet now.
The Scheme of Amalgamation will become effective upon the filing of the orders passed by both NCLT Kolkata and NCLT Ahmedabad with the respective jurisdictional Registrar of Companies.
Finally we can expect that the amalgamation process gets completed in Q3 & merged balance sheet is published by yearly result of 2019-20
Kolkata-based Bandhan Bank won the Emerging Company of the Year
This is happening so fast.
Taking into consideration the important role played by MFIs in delivering credit to those in the bottom of the economic pyramid and enable them to play their assigned role in a growing economy, it is proposed to revise these criteria:
I think is possitive news for Bandhan Bank as it will increase loan ticket size
Second news slightly old on Gruh finance
the housing loan limits for eligibility under priority sector lending is revised to Rs 35 lakh in metropolitan centres Rs 28 lakh earlier (with population of ten lakh and above), and to Rs 25 lakh from Rs 20 lakh earlier in other centres, provided the overall cost of the dwelling unit in the metropolitan centre and at other centres does not exceed Rs 45 lakh and Rs 30 lakh, respectively.
Further, the existing limit for family income of Rs 2 lakh per annum for loans to housing projects for home construction economically weaker sections and low-income groups, is revised to Rs 3 lakh per annum and Rs 6 lakh per annum respectively in alignment with the income criteria specified under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana
This may increase loan ticket size of Gruh finance also
Thanks
Ashit
Disclosure . Invested in Gruh finance since it’s IPO and added more as it’s going to merge with Bandhan Bank
The process has already taken 10 months as we stated in January. I feel it’s good as market doesn’t like uncertainty and we have seen gruh suffering on account of this during the amalgamation process. Let us see if Gruh impacts Bandhan and creates wealth for investors. I know many people who are invested in Gruh and have seen it performing well in each weather.
I look forward to see the merged book and let market take decision whether the merged entity keeps investors happy… the way earlier entities kept them interested and rewarded.
The new limit is for NBFC-MFIs (positive for CreditAccess Grameen or Satin or Spandana). Bandhan, being a bank, is not bound by limits on NBFC-MFIs.
MSCI has announced addition of Bandhan bank to MSCI India largecap index. Post completion of merger with Gruh Finance, combined free float market cap of bandhan bank has increased above USD 2.5bn which made it eligible for largecap index.
On addition Bandhan bank is expected to have weight of approximately 0.65% which will result in buying of ~USD 160mn ( ~22mm shares vs 30 day ADV of 0.7 mn shares ).
Rebal expected on 15 Oct
As a result it touched 20% upper circuit in early trade on 11th Oct today.
Was today’s move just a speculative one? Does inclusion in MSIC large cap index warrant such a steep move? Seeing the first time such a hefty move on such inclusion. Hence the question.
The day RBI restricted branch opening due to shareholding norms, next day it got locked in 20% LC and it remained locked whole day.
Speculation is there, and it will remain there. In social media platform you will see many bad words and trolling about Bandhan bank. Few people are deliberately doing this.
53.4% is delivery today. Highest in last 11 trading session. I do not believe it was a speculative movement. Need to see next Monday data.
In addition to this, these words from HDFC chief is very relevant against the backdrop of Gruh-Bandhan merger.
Correction : Delivery % for 11th Oct is 43.4%. sorry for putting 10th Oct data by mistake.
I think next big trigger for Bandhan is the management plan to bring down the Holding company shareholding to under 40%. As soon as they announce the plan, the stock will post decent gains and once they completes the same, it will be re-rated as per earlier PE multiples.
