Federal Bank Q4 results: Profit rises 12%, flags downward pressures on NIMs do sex

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Apr, 30 2025 16:02 PM
Federal Bank's consolidated profit rose by 12.37 per cent to Rs 1,091 crore for the March quarter, helped by a jump in non-interest income. On a standalone basis, the private sector bank's Q4 net moved up to Rs 1,030 crore from Rs 906 crore in the year-ago period. The core net interest income grew 8 per cent to Rs 2,377 crore from Rs 2,195 crore, and was marginally down when compared with the quarter-ago period's Rs 2,431 crore. The non-interest income grew 33 per cent on-year to Rs 1,006 crore, the highest ever under the category achieved by the bank. The net interest margin narrowed to 3.12 per cent during the quarter from 3.21 per cent. Its chief executive and managing director K V S Manian said nearly half of the bank's book is linked to the external benchmark of repo rate, and automatically gets repriced with every cut in the policy rate by RBI. Speaking with reporters, he said the bank will deploy all efforts possible to protect the NIMs, but conceded that there are "downwa
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