MUMBAI, JUNE 25, 2020 (GPN): Bank of India announced its audited results for the Q4 and FY 2019-20, following approval by its Board of Directors on June 25, 2020.

Highlights of Performance during FY 2019-20:

BUSINESS:

• Global Business of the Bank increased from Rs. 9,03,723 crore as on  March 31, 2019 to Rs.9,72,026 crore as on March 31, 2020 with a yoy growth of 7.56 %.The domestic business registered a growth of 12.04%, which rose from Rs. 7,49,920 crore in March 2019 to Rs. 8,40,209 crore in March,2020.
• The CASA level increased from Rs. 1,81,765  crore in March, 2019 to  Rs. 1,97,751 crore in March, 2020, i.e. with a growth of 8.79%. The CASA ratio stood at 41.50% in March, 2020.
• The Gross Advances (Global) went up from Rs. 3,82,860 crore as on  March 31,2019 to Rs. 4,16,521 crore as on March 31, 2020, with a YoY growth of 8.79%.
• The Domestic Gross Advances increased by 9.0% from Rs. 3,28,137 crore  as on March 31, 2019 to Rs.3,57,670 crore as on March 31, 2020.
• Priority Sector advances stood at Rs.1,26,203 crore as on March 31, 2020, which constitutes 40.81% of ANBC.

ASSET QUALITY:

• Gross NPAs declined from Rs. 61,730 crore in December 2019 to Rs. 61,550 crore in March 2020.
• The Net NPAs level, with higher provisions, significantly brought down from Rs.20,113 crore in December, 2019 to Rs.14,311 crore in March, 2020, i.e. by 28.85%(QoQ).
• The Gross NPA ratio reduced both sequentially and on y-o-y basis. From 15.84% in March,2019 and 16.30% in December, 2019, it has come down to 14.78% in March, 2020.
• The Net NPA ratio declined over 200 bps from 5.97 % in December, 2019 to 3.88% in March, 2020.
• Provision Coverage Ratio takes a quantum jump from 77.15% in December 2019 to 83.75% in March 2020.

Results: Q4 FY 2019-20:

• The Bank’s Operating Profit increased by 15.20% (YoY) from Rs. 2303 crore in      Q4 FY 2018-19 to Rs. 2,653 crore in Q4 FY 2019-20.
• Because of higher provisions on bad debts, from Rs.1,503 crore during   Q4 FY 2018-19 to Rs.7,316 crore during Q4 FY 2019-20, Net profit stood at   (-) Rs.3,571 crore as against Rs. 252 crore during Q4 FY 2018-19.
• The Non-Interest Income of the Bank increased by 14.13% YoY from  Rs. 1,479 crore in March 2019 to 1,688 crore in March 2020, supported by  rise in treasury income.
• The NIM (Global) of the Bank stood at 2.90% for Q4 FY2019-20 as against 2.93% during Q4 FY2018-19.
• Cost to income ratio significantly reduced from 59.22% in Q4 FY 2018-19 to 51.60% in Q4 FY 2019-20.

Results: Full Year 2019-20:

• The Bank’s Operating Profit rose by 42.34% (YoY) from Rs. 8,092 crore in FY 2018-19 to Rs. 11,519 crore in FY 2019-20.
• The Net Profit, on account of higher NPAs provisions of Rs.14,416 crore, stood at (-) Rs.2,957 crore against (-) Rs.5,547 crore Net Profit during  FY 2018-19.
• The NII of the Bank rose by 11.71% (YoY) from Rs. 13,658 crore in FY 2018-19 to Rs.15,257 crore for FY 2019-20.
• Non-Interest income jumped by 44.09%, i.e. from Rs.4659 crore in March 2019 to Rs.6,713 crore in March, 2020, supported by increase in treasury income and recovery in written off accounts.
• The NIM (global) went up from 2.56% in March’19 to 2.93% in March’20. The NIM (domestic) also increased from 3.03% in March’19 to 3.28% in March’20.
• The Yield on Advances (YoA), Global as well as Domestic witnessed improvement. The yield on advances (Global) moved up from 8.23% in FY 2018-19 to 8.62% for FY 2019-20.  Similarly, Yield on Advances (Domestic) rose from 9.22% to 9.33% for the same period.
• The domestic cost of deposit brought down from 5.21% in FY 2018-19 to 5.10% during FY 2019-20.
• Cost to income ratio (Global) significantly reduced from 56.93% during FY 2018-19 to 47.57% during FY 2019-20.

CAPITAL ADEQUACY:

• The CRAR (Basel III) stood at 13.10% in March 31, 2020 against 14.19% in March, 2019.
• The CET-1 ratio stood at 9.88% and Tier-I at 9.90% in March 2020 vis a vis 11.01% and 11.07%, respectively in March 2019.
• The Risk Weighted Assets reduced from Rs. 3,05,953 crore in March 2019 to Rs. 2,94,189 crore in March 2020, with a reduction of Rs. 11,764 crore i.e. 3.85% (YoY).

INITIATIVES

v  The Bank is in the process of implementation of the Project‘Star Mahashakti’ by which the Bank’s Technology platform is being upgraded from Finacle 7 to Finacle 10.

v  The Tech-driven Credit Monitoring System for tracking of ‘Early Warning Signals’ is in the final stage of being live by September, 2020.

v  “Enterprise wide Fraud Risk Management” framework for real-time fraud monitoring and prevention, which is also in the process is expected to be fully implemented by September, 2020.

v  Web-based – Retail Online Module launched to improve productivity and customer service by reducing turnaround time.

v  Card less Cash withdrawal using UPI QR (QR Cash) launched by which our Bank Customers can withdraw cash from ATMs readily without the use of cards.

v  Mobile and Internet Banking  system upgraded with enhanced features for better customer experience

v  As an FI initiative, seamless ICT Technology based basic banking services enabled in Rural & unbanked areas.

v  Document Management System (DMS) introduced for storage and retrieval of documents

v  BOI SEVA – OUR Chat-bot launched on website both in English and Hindi.

AWARDS – 2019-20

v  Bank of India has won the second Most Trusted Brand Awardin the Banks category awarded by the Reader’s Digest Trusted Brand, 2019.

v  In the India Banking Summit & Awards 2019, Bank of India ranked as Best Public Sector Bank 2019 by Synnex Group.

v  Best Performing Public Sector  Bank   in  APY  Formation  Day  Campaign (FY2019-20) by PFRDA.

v  ETBFSI Excellence Awards 2019- Most Innovative Large Size Bank of the Year for QR Cash.

v  SKOCH Order of Merit AWARD 2019  in GOLD Category  for BOI Mobile.

v  Bank of India has been conferred CSO-100 Award-2019 from IDG Media for Implementation of Best Information Security Practices.

v  Bank has won Infosys Finacle Clients Innovation Award 2019. ENDS