17. PROVISIONS, CONTINGENT LIABLITIES ANDCONTINGENT ASSETS: (AS 29 Provisions, ContingentLiabilities and Contingent Assets)
As per AS 29 “Provisions, Contingent Liabilities andContingent Assets”, the Bank recognises provisions onlywhen it has a present obligation as a result of a past eventand it is probable that an outflow of resources embodyingeconomic benefits will be required to settle the obligationand when a reliable estimate of the amount of theobligation can be made.
Contingent liability is disclosed unless the possibility ofan outflow of resources embodying economic benefitis remote. Contingent Assets are not recognised in thefinancial statements.
Share issue expenses are charged to Share PremiumAccount in the year of issue of shares.
*On consolidated basis (including domestic operations, overseascentres and overseas subsidiaries)
@ Disclosure as on 31.03.2025 as well as 31.03.2024 hasbeen done by taking simple averages of daily observations overprevious 4 quarters (i.e. average for the FY 2024-25 & FY 2023¬24 respectively). This is as per RBI guidelines ref. no. DBR.No.BP.BC.80 /21.06.201/2014-15 dated March 31, 2015.
The Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) is one of the BaselCommittee's key reforms to develop a more resilient bankingsector. The LCR, a global standard, is also used to measureyour Bank's liquidity position. LCR seeks to ensure that theBank has an adequate stock of unencumbered High-QualityLiquid Assets (HQLA) that can be converted into cash easily andimmediately to meet its liquidity needs under a 30-day calendarliquidity stress scenario. The LCR helps in improving the bankingsector's ability to absorb shocks arising from financial andeconomic stress, whatever the source, thus reducing the risk of
spill over from the financial sector to the real economy. Basedon Basel III norms, your Bank's average LCR stood at 118.62per cent on a consolidated basis for financial year 2024-25 asagainst the regulatory threshold at 100 per cent.
The LCR standard aims to ensure that a bank maintains anadequate level of unencumbered High Quality Liquid Assets(HQLA) that can be converted into cash to meet its liquidityneeds for a 30 calendar day time horizon under a significantlysevere liquidity stress scenario. At a minimum, the stock of liquidassets should enable the bank to survive until next 30 calendardays under a severe liquidity stress scenario.
High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA)
LCR =
Total net cash outflows over the next 30 calendar days
Liquid assets comprise of high-quality assets that can be readilyencashed or used as collateral to obtain cash in a range ofstress scenarios.
Here,
- HQLA comprises of level 1 and level 2 assets, in otherwords these are cash or near to cash items which canbe easily used / discounted in the market in case ofneed. While Level 1 assets are with 0% haircut, Level2A and Level 2B assets are with 15% and 50% haircutsrespectively.
- Net cash outflows are excess of total outflow over totalinflow under stressed situation as defined by Basel / RBI.While arriving at the net cash outflow, the inflows aretaken with pre-defined hair-cuts and the outflows are takenat pre-defined run-off factors. In order to determine cashoutflows, the Bank segregates its deposits into variouscustomer segments, viz., Retail (which include depositsfrom individuals), Small Business Customers (those withdeposits upto ? 7.5), and Wholesale (which would coverall residual deposits). Within Wholesale, deposits that areattributable to clearing, custody, and cash managementservices are classified as Operational Deposits. Othercontractual funding, including a portion of other liabilitieswhich are expected to run down in a 30 day time frameare included in the cash outflows. These classifications,based on extant regulatory guidelines, are part of theBank's LCR framework, and are also submitted to the RBI.
- Total expected cash inflows are calculated by multiplyingthe outstanding balances of various categories ofcontractual receivables by the rates at which they areexpected to flow in up to an aggregate cap of 75% of totalexpected cash outflows. In case stressed inflows are morethan the stressed outflows, 25% of total outflows shall betaken as total net cash outflows to arrive at the LCR.
Main Drivers of LCR: The main drivers of the LCR areadequacy of High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) and lower netcash outflow on account of higher funding sources from retailcustomers. Sufficient stock of HQLA helped the Bank to maintainadequate LCR.
Composition of HQLA: The composition of High Quality LiquidAssets (HQLA) mainly consists of cash balances, excess SLR,excess CRR, Securities under MSF and FALLCR (Facility toAvail Liquidity for Liquidity Coverage Ratio).
The composition of Average HQLA for the financial year ended
Concentration of funding sources: Majority of Bank's fundingsources are from retail customers & small business customerstherefore the stressed outflows are comparatively lower.Bank does not have significant funding concentration fromany counterparty. In the Indian context, the run-off factors forthe stressed scenarios are prescribed by the RBI, for variouscategories of liabilities (viz., deposits, unsecured and securedwholesale borrowings), undrawn commitments, derivative-related exposures, and offset with inflows emanating from assetsmaturing within the same time period. Given below is a table of
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Derivative Exposures and potential collateral calls: Bankhas very little exposure in derivative business which is not verysignificant.
Currency mismatch in the LCR: In terms of RBI guidelines,a significant currency is one where aggregate liabilitiesdenominated in that currency amount to 5 per cent or more ofthe bank's total liabilities. In our case, USD is the only significantcurrency.
Description of the degree of centralization of liquiditymanagement and interaction between the group's units:
The liquidity management of the Bank at enterprise level is aBoard level function and a separate sub-committee of the Board(R.Com.) keeps close watch on that. The periodical monitoringof the liquidity management is being monitored by the ALCO atregular intervals. The entire liquidity management process ofthe Bank is being governed by Global ALM Policy of the Bank.Liquidity for the Bank's domestic banking operations is directlymanaged at the Head Office. The overseas branches andoffshore unit of the Bank independently manage their liquidityrequirements with support from the Head Office. Similarly,the Bank's subsidiaries independently manage their liquidityrequirements under guidance of the R.COM, which, along with
senior management of the subsidiaries, reviews the risk assessment of material risks at the subsidiaries. Further, the Bank maintainssuitable systems and processes to monitor liquidity requirements in other currencies as appropriate.
The average LCR based on daily average for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 was at 118.62% as against 153.12% for thefinancial year ended March 31, 2024 and this is well above the present prescribed minimum regulatory requirement of 100%. Theaverage HQLA for the financial year ended March 31, 2025 was ? 1,77,088.23 with 100.14% being Level 1 Assets whereas Level 2Aand level 2 B assets constitute 0.56% and 0.11% respectively. The adjustment in average HQLA is (0.81%). During the financial year,the weighted average HQLA level has increased by ? 21,503.06 primarily on account of increase in excess SLR balance. Further,weighted average net cash outflows position has increased by ? 47,677.05 during the financial year, mainly on account of increase incash outflows under the head unsecured wholesale funding.
The Bank has been maintaining HQLA mainly in the form of SLR investments over and above the mandatory requirements. Retaildeposits constitute major portion of total funding sources, which are well diversified. Management is of the view that the Bank hassufficient liquidity cover to meet its likely future commitments.
These may include, but are not limited to, items such as capitalwith perpetual maturity, non-maturity deposits, short positions,open maturity positions, non-HQLA equities, and physical tradedcommodities.
The objective of the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) is topromote the resilience of bank's liquidity risk profiles and toincentivize a more resilient banking sector over a longer timehorizon. The NSFR guidelines ensure reduction in funding riskover a longer term horizon by requiring banks to fund theiractivities with sufficiently stable sources of funding in order tomitigate the risk of future funding stress. The NSFR is defined asthe amount of Available Stable Funding relative to the amount ofRequired Stable Funding.
Available Amount of Stable Funding (ASF)
NSFR = >100%
Required Amount of Stable Funding (RSF)
RBI issued the regulations on the implementation of the NetStable Funding Ratio in May 2018 with minimum requirementof equal to at least 100%. The implementation is effective from1st October, 2021. NSFR is computed at Bank's standalone andconsolidated level.
Available Stable Funding (ASF) is defined as the portion ofcapital and liabilities expected to be reliable which is determinedby various factors / weights according to the nature and maturityof liabilities viz. liabilities having maturity of 1 year or morereceiving 100% weight.
Required Stable Funding (RSF) is defined as the portion of onbalance sheet and off-balance sheet exposures which requiresto be funded on an ongoing basis. The amount of such stable
funding required is a function of the liquidity characteristics andresidual maturities of the various assets held.
Brief about NSFR of the Bank
The main drivers of the Available Stable Funding (ASF) are thecapital base, retail deposit base, and funding from non-financialcompanies and long-term funding from institutional clients.The capital base formed around 14%, retail deposits (includingdeposits from small sized business customers) formed 56%and wholesale funding formed 13% of the total Available StableFunding, after applying the relevant weights.
The Required Stable Funding primarily comprised lendingto corporates, retail clients and financial institutions whichconstituted 68% of the total RSF after applying the relevantweights. The stock of High-Quality Liquid Assets which majorlyincludes cash and reserve balances with the RBI, governmentdebt issuances attracted no or low amount of stable fundingdue to their high quality and liquid characteristic. Accordingly,the HQLA constituted only 1% of the Required Stable Fundingafter applying the relevant weights. Other assets and Contingentfunding obligations, such as committed credit facilities,guarantees and letters of credit constituted 31% of the RequiredStable Funding.
Bank's NSFR comes to 124.72% at consolidated basis as on 31stMarch 2025 and is above the minimum regulatory requirementof 100% set out by RBI. As on 31st March 2025, the weightedAvailable Stable Funding (ASF) position stood at ? 7,01,086.93and weighted Required Stable Funding (RSF) position stood at ?5,62,128.09.
(i) Government Securities (Face Value) amounting to ?54,267.64 (previous year ? 35,489.39) are kept as marginwith RBI, CCIL, Clearing House and Exchange towardsmargin/security settlement.
(ii) Bank's Joint Venture Star Union Dai-Ichi Life InsuranceCompany Limited has issued 1,82,72,424 fully paid equityshares, face value of ? 10 each at premium of ? 291 pershare on right basis to existing shareholders. However,the Bank did not subscribe to any additional shares, whichhas resulted in reduction of Bank's stake from 28.96% to27.48%. Accordingly, Bank's share in the reserves of saidjoint venture has reduced by ? 22.10.
(iii) During the year ended March 31, 2025, the Bank has
been allotted proportionate equity share capital by oneof its existing associate Regional Rural Bank, namelyAryavart Bank of ? 152.04 against pending share
application money made in FY 2022-23.
(iv) Bank was also allotted shares for the additional investmentof ? 49.46 in one of its wholly owned subsidiary, namely,Bank of India (Uganda) Limited.
*In Compliance with RBI Master Directions on Classification,Valuation and Operation of Investment portfolio of CommercialBank (Directions) 2023, the Depreciation held in books as on31.03.2024 has been transferred to General Reserve duringreclassification of Investment portfolio.
The total value of sale of securities from HTM categoryduring April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025 has not exceeded5% of the opening carrying value of investments heldin HTM category as on April 1, 2024 in compliance withRBI Master Directions on Classification, Valuation andOperation of Investment Portfolio of Commercial Banks(Directions) 2023 dated September 12, 2023.
Further as per the above Master Directions, Banks shallnot reclassify investments between categories withoutapproval of their Board of Directors and subsequentapproval from Department of Supervision, RBI.
As per RBI Circular No.DBR.No.BP.BC.45/21.04.048/2018-19 dated June 7, 2019 on Prudential Framework for Resolution ofStressed Assets, as on March 31, 2025, Bank holds Provision of ? 1,537.16 in respect of 12 borrower accounts (exposure ?5,467.11), where the viable Resolution Plan has not been implemented within 180 days / 365 days of review period.
As per RBI Master Direction No. RBI/DOR/2021-22/83/DOR.ACC.REC.No.45 /21.04.018/2021-22 dated August 30, 2021(updated as on 01.04.2024) on Financial statements - Presentation and Disclosures, divergence in the asset classification andprovisioning, Banks should disclose divergences, if either or both of the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) the additional provisioning for non-performing assets (NPAs) assessed by RBI as part of its supervisory process, exceeds5% of the reported profit before provisions and contingencies for the reference period, and
(b) the additional Gross NPAs identified by the RBI as part of its supervisory process exceeds 5% of reported incrementalGross NPAs for the reference period.
Divergences are within threshold limits in the Bank as specified above. Hence, no disclosure is required with respect toDivergence in Asset Classification and Provisioning for NPAs with respect to RBI's supervisory process for the year ended March31, 2024.
There was no default and penalty imposed by ReserveBank of India in Repo/Reverse Repo transactions and inRRC Account with RBI during the Financial year 2024-25.
The Bank enters into derivative contracts suchas interest rate derivatives, currency swaps andcurrency options to hedge on balance sheet assets
and liabilities or to meet client requirements as wellas for trading purpose as per policy approved bythe Board. These products are used for hedgingrisk, reducing cost and increasing the yield. In suchtransactions, the types of risks to which the bank isexposed to, are credit risk, market risk, operationalrisk etc.
Risk management is an integral part of bank'sbusiness management. Bank has risk managementpolicies designed to identify and analyse risks, to setappropriate risk limits and to monitor these risks andlimits on an on-going basis by means of reliable andup to date management information systems. Therisk management policies and major control limitsare approved by the Board of Directors and they aremonitored and reviewed regularly. The organizationof the Bank is conducive to managing risks. Thereis sufficient awareness of the risks and the sizeof exposure of the trading activities in derivativeoperations.
The Bank has a Risk Management Committee ofDirectors presided over by the Chairman.
The hedge/non-hedge (market making) transactionsare recorded separately. Income/expenditure onhedging derivatives is accounted on accrual basis.
Forex forward contracts are marked to market andthe resultant gains and losses are recognized in theprofit and loss account.
Interest rate derivatives and currency derivativesother than exchange traded derivatives for tradingpurpose are marked to market and the resultinglosses, if any, are recognised in the Profit and Lossaccount. Net Profit, if any, is ignored.
Exchange traded derivatives entered into for tradingpurposes are valued at prevailing market ratesbased on rates given by the Exchange and theresultant gains and losses are recognized in theProfit & Loss account.
Gains/losses on termination of the trading swapsare recorded on the termination date as income/expenditure. Any gain/loss on termination of hedgingswaps are deferred and recognised over the shorterof the remaining contractual life of the swap or theremaining life of the designated assets/liabilities.
Option fees/premium is amortised over the tenor ofthe option contract.
Bank has a proper system of submitting periodicalreports to Senior and Top Management and Boardas well as regulatory authorities as required by RBIand/or as per operational requirements. Bank hasclearly spelt derivative guidelines on various aspectsapproved by the Board of Director. The derivative
transactions are subject to concurrent, internal,statutory and regulatory audits.
The counter parties to the transactions are banks,primary dealers and corporate entities. The dealsare done under approved exposure limits. TheBank has adopted the Current Exposure Methodprescribed by Reserve Bank of India for measuringCredit Exposures arising on account of interestrate and foreign exchange derivative transactions.Current exposure method is the sum of currentcredit exposure and potential future exposure ofthese contracts.
The current credit exposure is the sum of positivemark to market value of these contracts i.e. whenthe Bank has to receive money from the counterparty.
Potential future credit exposure is determined bymultiplying the notional principal amount of thesecontracts irrespective of whether the contract haszero, positive or negative mark to market value bythe relevant add-on factors as under according tothe nature and residual maturity of the instruments.
RBI vide its circular DBR.BP.BC.No.29/21.07.001/2018-19dated March 22, 2019, deferred implementation of Ind AStill further notice as the legislative amendments in BankingRegulation Act, 1949 as recommended by RBI are underconsideration of the Government of India. However, RBIrequires all banks to submit Proforma Ind AS FinancialStatements (PFS) every half year. Accordingly, the Bankhas been preparing and submitting to RBI Proforma IndAS Financial Statements (PFS) half-yearly with effectfrom September-2021, after seeking approval of SteeringCommittee formed for monitoring of implementationof Ind-AS in the Bank. The PFS are also presented toAudit Committee of Board and Board for information andreporting.
Applicable only to UCBs
(i) Disclosure on amortisation of expenditure on accountof enhancement in family pension of employees ofbanks
Reserve Bank of India vide its Circular No. RBI/2021-22/105 DOR.ACC.REC.57/21.04.018/2021-22 dated
October 4, 2021, permitted Banks to amortise theadditional liability on account of revision in family pensionover a period not exceeding five years beginning withthe financial year ending March 31, 2022, subject toa minimum of 1/5th of the total amount being expensedevery year. The Bank recognised the additional liabilityon account of revision in family pension amounting to ?612.09 and has opted to amortise the said liability over aperiod not exceeding five years, beginning financial yearending March 31, 2022.
Accordingly, Bank has recognised ? 41.21 (Previous Year? 142.42) as an expense in the Profit and Loss account,for the year ended March 31, 2025 towards the saidadditional liability and the unamortised amount of familypension liability as on the date is ? Nil (Previous Year?41.21).
(j) In accordance with RBI circular no.DBRNo.BP.BC.18/21.04.048/2018-19 dated January 1, 2019, on
(p) In respect of RBI referred NCLT accounts (List 1 & 2) as on March 31, 2025, Bank holds 100% provision of the outstandingvalue of ? 3,033.86.
(q) In terms of Bank's approved revaluation policy, during the year ended March 31, 2025 the immovable properties are revaluedbased on the revaluation reports of Bank's approved valuers and the surplus arising from revaluation amounts to ?1,580.24(Domestic ? 1,449.27 and Foreign ? 130.97) has been added to “Revaluation Reserve”.
(r) Other Income includes commission and brokerage income, profit/loss on sale of assets, profit/loss on revaluation of investments(net) (including depreciation on performing investments), earnings from foreign exchange and derivative transactions, recoveriesfrom accounts previously written off, dividend income, etc.
(s) The Board of Directors has recommended a dividend of ? 4.05 per equity share (40.50%) for the year ended March 31, 2025subject to requisite approvals.
(t) Balancing of Subsidiary Ledger Accounts, confirmation/reconciliation of balances with foreign branches, Inter-office accounts,NOSTRO Accounts, Suspense, Draft Payable, Clearing Difference, other office accounts, etc. is in progress on an on-goingbasis. In the opinion of the management, the overall unadjusted impact on the financial statements, if any, of pending finalclearance/adjustment of the above, is not likely to be significant.
During the year, there were no material prior period income / expenditure items.
There is no change in the Significant Accounting Policies followed during the year ended March 31, 2025 as compared to
those followed in the previous financial year ended March 31,2024 except the following:
(a) The RBI, vide its Master Direction dated September 12, 2023 issued revised norms for the classification, valuationand operation of the investment portfolio of banks, which became applicable from April 01, 2024. While hitherto theinvestment portfolio was classified under the held to maturity (HTM) , available for sale (AFS) and held for trading(HFT) categories, the revised norms bring in a principle-based classification of investment portfolio and a symmetrictreatment of fair value gains and losses. In accordance with the revised norms and the Bank's Board approvedpolicy, the Bank has classified its investment portfolio as on April 01, 2024, under the categories of held to maturity(HTM), available for sale (AFS), fair value through profit and loss (FVTPL) and held for trading (HFT) as a sub
category of FVTPL, and from that date, measures and values the investment portfolio under the revised framework.
On transition to the framework on April 01, 2024, the Bank has recognised a net gain of ? 127.46, net of taxes,(including transfer of Investment Reserve ? 406.56), which has been credited to revenue reserve in accordance withthe said norms. The impact of the revised framework for the previous period (FY 2023-24) is not ascertainable andas such the profit or loss from the investments for the year ended March 31, 2025 are not comparable with that ofthe previous year.
(b) In terms of RBI circular No. RBI/DOR/2024-25/135 DOR.STR.REC.72 /21.04.048/2024-25 dated March 29, 2025on revised norms for Government Guaranteed Security Receipts (SRs), banks are permitted to reverse any excessprovision to the profit and loss Account in the year of transfer of loan to Asset reconstruction company (ARC) for thevalue higher than the net book value (NBV), provided the consideration consists solely of cash and SRs guaranteedby the Government of India. Such SRs shall be valued periodically by reckoning the Net Asset Value (NAV) declaredby the ARC based on the recovery ratings received for such instruments. On account of the same, appreciation tothe extent of bank's share amounting to ? 397.76 towards unrealized MTM Gain and the excess provision has beenreversed to P&L account during the year ended 31.03.2025.
The Bank has recognised Business Segments as Primary reporting segment and Geographical Segments as Secondary segment inline with RBI guidelines in compliance with Accounting Standard 17.
Primary Segment: Business Segments
a) Treasury: ‘Treasury' segment includes the entire investment portfolio i.e. dealing in Government and other Securities, MoneyMarket Operations and Forex Operations including Derivative contracts.
b) Wholesale Banking: Wholesale Banking includes all lending activities which are not included under Retail Banking.
c) Retail Banking: Retail Banking segment comprises of Digital Banking and Other Retail Banking.
Digital Banking includes digital banking products acquired by DBUs.
Other Retail Banking includes all housing loan accounts and borrower accounts having exposure up to ? 7.50.
Retail Banking Segment is a Primary resource mobilising unit and Wholesale Segment and Treasury Segment compensatesthe Retail banking segment for funds lent by it to them taking into consideration the average cost of deposits and borrowingsincurred by it.
Allocation of Costs:
a) Expenses directly attributed to particular segment are allocated to the relative segment.
b) Expenses not directly attributable to specific segment are allocated in proportion to number of employees/businessmanaged.
a) Domestic Operations
b) International Operations
6.5 Accounting Standard 18 - Related Party Transactions (As compiled by the management and relied upon by the Auditors):
I) List of Related Parties:
Managing Director & CEO : Shri Rajneesh Karnatak
Executive Directors : Shri P R Rajagopal
Shri M. Karthikeyan (superannuated on 31.03.2025)
Shri Subrat KumarShri Rajiv Mishra
*Excluding provisions for othersB. Contingent Liabilities:
Such liabilities are dependent upon, the outcome of court order/arbitration/out of court settlement, disposal of appeals andthe amount being called up, terms of contractual obligations, devolvement and raising of demand by concerned parties, asthe case may be. No reimbursement is expected in such cases.
7. Figures of the previous period have been regrouped / reclassified, wherever considered necessary to conform to the currentperiod's classification.