IDFC FIRST Bank Merger and Performance Update
1. Founding of IDFC First Bank
IDFC FIRST Bank was founded by the merger of Erstwhile IDFC Bank and Erstwhile Capital First on December 18, 2018
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IDFC BANK
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IDFC Bank was created by demerger of infrastructure lending business of IDFC
Limited to IDFC Bank in 2015
IDFC Limited was set up in 1997 to finance infrastructure, focusing primarily on
project finance and mobilization of capital for private sector infrastructure
development
The Bank launched corporate banking, treasury solutions, retail and rural business
and achieved CASA of INR 64 bn (1)
As a part of its strategy to diversify its loan book, IDFC Bank was looking for a merger
with a retail finance institution with adequate scale, profitability and specialized skills
Mr. Vaidyanathan concluded a leveraged management buyout in 2012 to form
Capital First
Company built unique ways of financing MSMEs and Indian consumers in niche
segments using analytics-driven technology platform
Built a AUM of INR 326bn (1)
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CAPITAL
FIRST
Strong credit skills, maintained low NPA levels
years
(2)
High NIM, profitable growth engine with 5-year profit grew by 5.2x in 5
Consistently rising ROE with pre-merger quarterly annualized ROE at 14.5% (1)
Company was on the lookout for a commercial banking license in order to access
stable and low cost deposits
Post-merger
IDFC FIRST
Bank
Retail lending business model with
vintage of 8 years
Gross funded assets of INR 1,047bn
at merger, out of which 35% of
loans were in the retail segment (3)
NIM increased to 2.9% on merger (4)
Banking platform to grow retail
deposits and CASA
Large retail customer base
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1.
As on Sep 30, 2018
3.
As on Dec 31, 2018
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2.
From FY13 to FY18
4.
NIM computed as annualized Net Interest Income divided by average interest earning assets, including Capital First metrics
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