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Investors' total additional tier-I coverage to Indian banks at Rs 93,000 crore: ICRA

11 Mar 2020 Evaluate

Domestic rating agency ICRA in its latest report has warned that investors have total bets of over Rs 93,000 crore on the additional tier-I (AT-1) bonds in Indian banks and a complete write-down proposed in the Yes Bank restructuring may lead to risk aversion. IndusInd Bank has earlier dropped a plan for the issue of the AT-1 bonds by deferring a board meet following the Yes Bank package by the RBI. As part of the SBI-led restructuring package announced by the RBI, there is a proposal to write down the entire outstanding on AT-1 bonds, which has been pegged at Rs 8,695 crore by ICRA on March 9. 

According to the report, the proposal is likely to further increase the risk aversion of investors as the investors will factor in a higher probability of write-downs on these bonds. It also said appetite for future issuances and also the investor base for future issuances will take a beating because of the move. It noted that a total of Rs 93,669 crore of AT-1 bonds is outstanding as on date (Rs 84,574 excluding Yes Bank), of which Rs 39,315 crore will be in private banks (Rs 30,620 crore excluding Yes Bank). It added that the reduction in the risk appetite for investors will be constraining banks from rolling over these bonds by exercising call option and fresh issuance.

The report further pointed out that in such an event, and also the absence of fresh issuances, the capital buffers over regulatory levels will decline by an estimated 1 per cent of risk-weighted assets. It also said that under the large exposure framework, exposure to single borrower or group of borrowers is linked to tier-1 capital, and reduction in tier-1 capital upon redemption of these bonds will also reduce the ability of the banks to take large exposures to a borrower group.

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