IDFC FIRST Bank Merger and Financial Overview
Key Excerpts from MD & CEO's letter in Annual Report 2020-21
Vision & Mission of
IDFC FIRST Bank
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irst values,
We make products with transparent pricing and lees.
Working on the theme of Customer First, we came up
with many unique features as follows:
We advise our product teams
to design products in such a
way that it is meant to be sold
to our "near and dear" ones.
■ Monthly credits: We have started "monthly" credit
of interest on savings accounts, against the industry
practice of Quarterly credits. So, our customers
earn "interest on interest" monthly on their savings
accounts. To the best of our knowledge, no large
21-22 is
loan book
tandards,
ady been
ect to see
. Q3 and
keep our
ban book.
g a 2-1-2
of 1% and
a steady
borrowings of our DFI background, and these are the
challenges of converting a DFI into a bank. When our
Bank will replace this at say, 5.0%, we would save about
* 1,000 crore per year on an annuity basis compared to
today. This is a legacy issue on the liability side and will
go away with time.
When our bank will replace
this at say, 5.0%, we would
save about 1,000 crore per
year on an annuity basis
say that were
Don't underestimate the power
tayed motivated of the 50% CASA Bank with a
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ssist customers. powerful and tested lending
are scheme for
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loan, extension
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ated this greatly.
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I express our sincere thanks to our regulator the Reserve
Bank of India who have constantly guided us on our approach
and supported us throughout. Our Board members are
eminent people with rich experience, have great intellect,
highest levels of integrity and have constantly guided the
Bank with strategic inputs and towards very high standards
of corporate governance.
I sincerely thank our customers for hanking with us I also
loans profitably which has multiplied our market
opportunities.
Reducing our savings
account interest rates
had another positive
side benefit; we can now
participate in prime Home
loans profitably which
has multiplied our market
opportunities.
lucing Concentration risk: Deposits from our Top
depositors have reduced from 40.0% of customer
osits at merger to only 7.7% as of March 31, 2021.
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finance company, a finan
Mumbai based Toll Road
based power account, a te
few other such accounts
cycle in infrastructure financ
financial conglomerates gol
exposure to the telecom ac
the issues are behind us.
Infrastructure financing
because of dependence or
and dependence on ecosyst
limited control. We have b
outstanding to infrastructure
merger to 10,808 crore as
On the Corporate Bank
implemented good controls
recent portfolio performanc
Significant reduction in th
list: We have brought down
i.
2- 1-2 Formula: We will be targeting a 2-1-2
formula, i.e. Gross NPA of 2%, Net NPA of 1% and
provisions of 2% on funded assets on a steady
state basis.
We will be targeting a
2-1-2 formula, i.e. Gross
NPA of 2%, Net NPA of 1%
and provisions of 2% on
funded assets
expect mortgage backed loans to form 40% of our
loan book in due course.
We expect mortgage
backed loans to form
40% of our loan book
in due course.
Credit Costs: Our provisions for FY 21-22 is
expected to be only 2.5% of the average loan book
which is quite reasonable by industry standards,
of which a substantial portion has already been
Thus our incremer
is estimated at 18
b. Strong increm
Lending busines
business ROE is
But you are not ye
because of the fol
C.
Higher cost of
currently: As of
crore of liabilities
borrowings of our
challenges of com
Bank will replacet
* 1,000 crore per
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