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Presence of Indian banks in foreign markets increase slightly in FY17: RBI

02 Nov 2017 Evaluate

The presence of Indian banks in the foreign markets has increased slightly in the financial year 2016-17 with the increasing number of branches to 192 from 189 in 2015-16. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) survey of international trade in banking services, there was a marginal fall in the employee strength of the domestic banks operating overseas to 3,984 in 2016-17 from 4,040 in 2015-16. On the flip side, foreign banks operating in India saw their number of branches dropping to 286 in FY17 from 317 in FY16. It also noted that there was also a decrease in their head count to 24,766 in 2016-17 from 26,642 in 2015-16.

The survey stated that during FY17, the consolidated balance sheet of overseas branches of domestic banks and their overseas subsidiaries contracted. It pointed out that total assets/liabilities of domestic banks' branches operating abroad stood at $224.4 billion as of March 2017, as against $231 billion in March 2016. Also, assets/liabilities of foreign banks' branches in the country were at $124.7 billion in 2016-17 from $123.2 billion in 2015-16. It indicated that aggregate deposits of foreign banks rose marginally during 2016-17 to $71.7 billion from $69 billion in 2015-16. It noted that it declined for overseas branches of banks to $81.7 billion in 2016-17 from $84.8 billion in 2015-16.

As per the RBI data, domestic banks’ branches operating abroad saw rise in the fee income to Rs 9,400 crore in 2016-17 from Rs 8,680 crore in 2015-16. It further stated that foreign banks saw a fee income of Rs 7,130 crore in 2016-17 against Rs 7,060 crore in 2015-16, on the back of payment and money transmission services. It pointed out that overseas branches generated a major share of fee income by rendering credit related services, trade finance related services and derivative, stocks, securities and forex trading services. Besides, the survey provides responses on functioning of 192 overseas branches and 325 overseas subsidiaries of domestic banks as well as 286 branches of foreign banks here.

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