Banks’ microfinance gross loan portfolio grows, SFBs see de-growth: Report

But, overall, with the projected reforms successful microfinance lending, possibly determination could not person been a much pragmatic attack from RBI astatine this hour.

The gross indebtedness portfolio (GLP) of banks successful the microfinance assemblage grew 15.5% year-on-year to Rs 1.06 lakh crore astatine the extremity of the erstwhile fiscal portion that of tiny concern banks (SFBs) de-grew 6.6% y-o-y to Rs 41,708 crore, according to a study published by recognition bureau CRIF High Mark.

The 15th variation of CRIF MicroLend, released connected Thursday, showed that banks continued to predominate the microfinance marketplace with a portfolio stock of 42% astatine the extremity of FY21, up from 39.4% successful FY20. Significantly, SFB’s marketplace stock successful the past fiscal declined to 16.4% from 19.1%.

During the 3rd 4th of FY21, the marketplace stock of banks and SFBs stood astatine 41.7% and 16.9%, respectively, successful the microfinance space. Between Q4FY20 and Q3FY21, NBFC-MFIs’ marketplace stock stood astir the aforesaid astatine astir 30%, portion it grew to 30.6% astatine the extremity of Q4FY21.

Interestingly, earlier this month, P N Vasudevan, managing manager and CEO of Equitas Small Finance Bank, said its conscious program to turn the unsecured micro concern publication astatine a “slower pace’ compared to the remainder helped mitigate the wide recognition outgo impact. “As of March 31, 2021, the unsecured microfinance advances were 18% portion the remaining 81% were secured loans. The slightest impacted product, tiny concern loans secured by location property, constitutes 45% of the full advances,” Vasudevan said.

“Microfinance manufacture demonstrated beardown resilience and recovered successful Q2 aft muted concern successful Q1FY20-21. Loan disbursements successful Q3 and Q4 of FY21 were akin to erstwhile year’s respective quarters,” said Vipul Jain, caput of products, CRIF High Mark, portion releasing the report.

The portfolio outstanding of microfinance assemblage stood astatine Rs 2.54 lakh crore arsenic of March 2021, with 10% quarter-on-quarter maturation and 8.4% year-on-year growth.

“Delinquency was higher successful Q3 and Q4 of FY20-21 compared to pre-Covid levels. We anticipation to spot these numbers determination backmost to their historical levels successful coming quarters,” Jain said.

The study said aboriginal delinquency (1- 30 days) reduced by 3.6% successful March 2021 compared to December 2020 from 8.7% to 5.1%. Microfinance loans with repayment delays of implicit 30 days (30+% delinquency) remained precocious for West Bengal, Assam and Maharashtra.