Private sector lender City Union Bank has received the first batch of repayment of Rs100 crore from low-cost air carrier SpiceJet, a top official said on Saturday. “Our exposure to SpiceJet is Rs200 crore. We received Rs100 crore as repayment. So 50 per cent of the payment been repaid,” City Union Bank, Managing Director and CEO, N Kamakodi told reporters here.
“We are in continuous discussion and the repayments have been made without any problem...The first Rs100 crore was paid before March 31, 2015. I think they will repay the balance over a period of time," he said. Declaring annual financial results of the bank, Kamakodi said, net profits jumped 18.8 per cent to Rs99.07 crore in the fourth quarter ending March 31 from Rs83.34 crore registered during year ago period.
Total income of the bank for the March quarter was Rs793.64 crore, up from Rs720.64 crore during previous year. For the full financial year, net profit of the bank grew by 13.8 per cent to Rs395.02 crore from Rs347.07 crore during the corresponding period last fiscal.
For the year, total income of the bank jumped to Rs3,102.96 crore from Rs2,825.78 crore previous year. On the reasons for the increase in net profits, Kamakodi said it was because of the all round performance of the bank. “We had 11 per cent growth in the advances figure for the year as a whole. For the financial year 2014 we had about Rs456 crore of NPA addition, which got reduced to 425 crore for the current financial year,” he said.
“last financial year we had only 7 per cent growth in advances, this financial year it is about 11 per centage growth. Whatever incremental growth rate we have achieved is the combined effort of all the performances across all different areas,” he said. Asked on the outlook for the year, he said: “We had 11 per cent growth rate. We should grow at 12-15 per cent for the (current) financial year.” Noting that the total business of the bank increased by 10 per cent to Rs42,164 crore for the year 2014-15, he said, “this year we hope to complete total business of Rs50,000 crore.” The Board have recommended a dividend of 110 per cent (compared to last year 100 per cent) Rs1.10 per equity share on face value of Rs1 each for the financial year 2014-15 subject to approval of shareholders, he said.