Capital First Strategy, Loan Growth and Profitability Trends
Section 6: Profitability
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Net Interest Margin: The bank plans to expand the NIM to about 5.0% - 5.5% in the next 5 years based on better cost of
funds and carefully selecting the product segments where we have strong proven capabilities over the years.
Asset Quality: Over 90% of the Retail Loan Book of the bank constitutes of loan book brought from erstwhile Capital First.
The book is seasoned over 8 years across business and loan cycles and has had stable performance throughout, and has been
adequately stress tested across significant events such as high interest rate cycle (2010-2014), high inflation rate cycle (2010-
2014), Demonetization (2016, where over 86% of the cash of the country was withdrawn overnight), GST implementation
(2017, which changed the business environment and methods for MSMEs) and yet asset quality remained high over the
period.
Cost to Income: The Bank plans to improve Cost to Income ratio to ~50-55% over the next 5 years, down from ~80% (post
merger results, Quarter ended December 31, 2018)
ROA and ROE: With the improvement in the NIM and cost to income ratio, the bank aims to reach the following benchmarks
in the next 5-6 years.
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ROA of 1.4%-1.6%
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ROE of 13%-15%
Section 6: Strategy Going Forward
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