Bank Case Study
Bank Case Study
Bank Case Study
Robin Thomas
Ph.D. Research Scholar-Management, Devi Ahilya University, Indore
INTRODUCTION
The case explores and comparatively analyses the loan recovery and NPA
management strategy employed by Axis Bank and its private peers through the
McKinsey 7S framework. The case also presents the SWOT analysis for Axis Bank
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through the assessing lens of bank‘s NPA Management and Asset Quality. The case
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study presents a brief profile of Axis Bank followed by key financial highlights and
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key financial ratios of the bank for five year period from FY 2013 to FY 2017. The
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case throws light and briefly discusses about the Strategic Intent‘ of the bank while
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underlining its Mission‘ and Vision‘. The Business Model of the bank is also
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bank. This is followed by relevant business environment for the bank (particularly for
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FY‘17 and FY‘18). Further the case presents the SWOT Analysis of the bank in the
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backdrop of its NPA Management efforts and reported Asset Quality. This is followed
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by a brief discussion on NPA statistics of the bank and concludes in the comparative
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Axis Bank is the third largest private sector bank in India. The Bank offers the entire
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The bank has a footprint of 3,304 domestic branches (including extension counters)
and 14,163 ATMs across the country as on 31st March 2017. The overseas
operations of the Bank are spread over nine international offices with branches at
Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai (at the DIFC), Colombo and Shanghai; representative
offices at Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and an overseas subsidiary at London, UK. The
international offices focus on corporate lending, trade finance, syndication,
investment banking and liability businesses.
Axis Bank is one of the first new generation private sector banks to have begun
operations in 1994. The Bank was promoted in 1993, jointly by Specified
Undertaking of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI) (then known as Unit Trust of India), Life
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Interest Earned 44,542.16 40,988.04 35,478.60 30,641.16 27,182.57
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Other Income 11,691.31 9,371.46 8,365.05 7,405.22 6,551.11
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Total Income 56,233.47 50,359.50 43,843.65 38,046.38 33,733.68
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21,254.46 18,689.52 17,516.31
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Profitability Ratios Mar '17 Mar '16 Mar '15 Mar '14 Mar '13
Profit Before Provisions/ Total Funds 3.16 3.28 3.19 3.19 3
Net Profit/ Total Funds 0.69 1.67 1.75 1.74 1.67
Loans Turnover 0.12 0.13 0.14 0.14 0.15
Total Income/ Capital Employed (%) 10.07 10.28 10.44 10.59 10.87
Interest Expended/ Capital Employed (%) 4.69 4.87 5 5.15 5.6
Total Assets Turnover Ratios 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.08 0.09
Asset Turnover Ratio 0.08 0.09 0.09 0.09 0.09
Profit And Loss Account Ratios
Interest Expended/ Interest Earned 59.3 58.79 59.73 60.85 64.38
Other Income/ Total Income 21.57 19.38 19.83 20.17 20.08
Operating Expense/ Total Income 21.18 19.76 20.62 20.35 19.93
Selling Distribution Cost Composition 0.31 0.22 -- -- --
Balance Sheet Ratios
Capital Adequacy Ratio -- -- -- -- --
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Advances/ Loans Funds (%) 76.97 79.28 76.89 73.83 71.59
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Debt Coverage Ratios
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Credit Deposit Ratio 93.85 92.44 85.74 80.6 77.68
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Cash Deposit Ratio 6.88 6.2 6.12 5.98 5.4
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Financial Charges Coverage Ratio Post Tax 1.17 1.36 1.37 1.36 1.32
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The long-term intent of the bank is to partner with customers in their progress -
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fulfilling and enriching their financial journeys. The bank deliberates that to remain
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relevant in the financial services industry of the future; banks need to embrace
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Customer Experience design as a core component of their business model and that
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the Customers compare banks not with other banks, but with the most powerful
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experiences they have with any service provider across industries. And thus the core
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2. Mission
Bank‘s Retail Banking segment encompasses a wide array of products and services
across deposits, loans, investments and payment solutions, which are delivered through
multiple channels to the Bank‘s customers. It caters to end-to-end retail customer
requirements through retail liabilities, retail lending and investment products.
The bank pursues customer centric approach in its Retail Banking business while
aiming at the Life Cycle ‘financial needs of the customers through innovative
products and services. To build its Retail Deposit franchise the Bank pursues
customer segmentation strategy. The bank offers complete set of financial services for
its NRI and Affluent Segments through its subsidiaries such as providing Succession
and Estate planning, term insurance, health insurance, portfolio management
services and credit cards. In Retail Lending and Payments, the bank has three fold
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focuses–cross-selling, rural lending and fee income on retail payments.
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The bank provides comprehensive corporate banking solutions with presence across
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the value chain, comprising credit, transaction banking, treasury, syndication,
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investment banking and trustee services.
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BUSINESS MODEL
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31st March 2017. The overseas operations of the Bank are spread over nine
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international offices with branches at Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai (at the
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2. The Business Model of bank has a four dimensional focus and operates in
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four segments viz. i) Retail Banking, ii) Corporate Banking, iii) International
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TREASURY
I. Retail Banking: The Retail Banking segment continues to be a key driver of
the Bank‘s overall growth strategy. It encompasses a wide array of products
and services across deposits, loans, investments and payment solutions
which are delivered through multiple channels to the Bank‘s customers. The
Bank has over the years developed long-term relationships with its customers
by being their preferred financial solutions partner on account of its excellent
customer delivery through insights and superior services. The Bank has also
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with its corporate customers.
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III. International Banking: The International Banking strategy of the Bank
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continues to revolve around leveraging its relations with corporates in India
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and Non-resident Indians, while providing banking solutions at overseas
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centres. The Bank, through its international operations, leverages the skills
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and strengths built in its domestic operations. It also widens the horizon of
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Dubai, Abu Dhabi (both in UAE) and Dhaka (Bangladesh); and an overseas
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unexpected outcomes–the UK‘s Brexit referendum, the US Presidential election.
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However, global growth prospects have actually improved and fears of deflation
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have receded helped by rising commodity prices and hopes of fiscal stimulus in the
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US. Higher commodity prices augur well for our domestic commodity producers, as
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well as many commodity exporting emerging economies. This has led to a change in
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stance in the monetary policy of many countries, with the US Fed raising rates at its
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March ‘17 meeting and indicating the possibility of more action in 2017.
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efforts by the government. Measures to control food prices and judicious use of
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monetary policy levers by RBI have kept inflation low throughout FY17, permitting
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RBI to cut rates by 50 basis points (to 6.25%) during the first half of the year. Even
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though rates have not been cut thereafter, the shift in RBI‘s liquidity stance from
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deficit to neutral early in FY17 and then the massive infusion of deposits into banks
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post extraction of high denomination currency notes, have brought money market
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interest rates sharply lower and facilitated deep cuts in banks‘ MCLR. After 2 years of
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prospects. Food prices, particularly pulses, came off and helped bring headline CPI
inflation down to average 4.5% in FY17. This along with the implementation of 7th
Pay Commission, helped in reviving rural and urban domestic demand. There was a
transient shock for a couple of months in Q3 FY17, but economic activity has
resumed to normalcy towards the end of Q4FY17. India‘s FY17 GDP growth
stood at 7.1%.
The primary concern is the slowdown in capex activity, which has caused corporate
credit demand to remain subdued, and post-demonetisation, non-food YOY credit
growth dropped further to sub-5% levels. The Union budget continued to strive
towards fiscal consolidation, fixing a fiscal deficit target of 3.2% in FY18, down from
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the 3.5% in FY17. However, State Government borrowings grew in FY17, leading to
a vitiation in consolidated Government fiscal rectitude. However, capital
expenditures have increased in the Union Budget, both in actual terms in FY17 and
projected FY18, which will partially offset the drop in private capex.
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2. Strengths
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• Adequate Capitalization Ratios
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• The Bank‘s cross-sell metrics too have been steadily improving, aided by
big data led analytics of the retail customer base.
• This was substantiated by strong retail assets growth from existing deposit
customers and healthy growth in retail fee income from distribution of
investment and insurance products.
5. Threats
• Slow pace of NPA resolutions.
• Further weakness in infrastructure, steel and power sector loans.
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Bank‘s ratio of Gross NPAs to gross customer assets increasing to 5.04%, at the end
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of March 2017 from 1.67% as at end of March 2016. The Bank added Rs.17,415
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crores to Net NPAs after adjusting for recoveries and up gradations of Rs.2,001
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crores and Rs. 2,366 crores respectively and the Bank‘s Net NPA ratio (Net NPAs as
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percentage of net customer assets) increased to 2.11% from 0.70%. The Bank‘s
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provision coverage stood at 65% after considering prudential write-offs. The net
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restructured book stood at Rs. 5,379 crores and net restructured assets ratio (net
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restructured assets as percentage of net customer assets) was 1.31%. During the year
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slippages from the standard restructured book stood at Rs. 3,213 crores. The
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S4A and 5:25 as on 31 March, 2017 stood at Rs. 2,173 crores, Rs. 323 crores and
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Rs. 2,329 crores, respectively. The book value of the assets sold by the Bank to
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ARCs during fiscal 2017 was Rs. 2,960 crores (net of provisions). The realisation
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(SRs) worth Rs. 2,083 crores and cash realised worth Rs. 393 crores.
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corporates. We continue to drive the transition of our
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The independent risk management structure to monitor all Independent Risk Management Group
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risks including credit risk. The goal of credit risk formed. A separate Credit Monitoring
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management focuses on maintaining asset quality and Group formed for proactive resolution of
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Table 7: Style
Axis Bank Private Sector Banks
The Bank‘s Structured Finance Group (SFG) is a specialized group The Retail Credit and Policy
focusing on resolution of non-retail impairments of the Bank. The Group is an independent unit
team is based out of the Central Office in Mumbai, and oversees focusing on policy formulation
rectification and restructuring as well as recovery for the Western and portfolio tracking and
zone of the country. The central team is supported by three monitoring and reports to a
Regional Recovery Cells at Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. group of Executive Directors
Table 8: Staff
Axis Bank Private Sector Banks
Independent Recovery Cells at central office and three other Independent Groups deployed to
regional centres identify, assess and monitor the
bank group‘s principal risks
Table 9: Skills
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Training intervention to reinforce the status of compliance standards (1) Structured hand-holding
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as an important element of business and to further drive the programs
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message that the compliance and governance agenda is critical. (2) Video based learning modules
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