ICICI Bank Limited
Q3 2014 Earnings Call Transcript

Published: 29 Jan 2014

[Operator:]

Ladies and gentlemen, good day, and welcome to the ICICI Bank's Q3 and FY '14 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded. I now hand over the conference to Mr. N.S. Kannan, executive Director of ICICI Bank. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

[N. S. Kannan:]

Thank you. Good evening. Welcome to the conference call on the financial results of ICICI Bank for the third quarter of the current financial year. In my remarks this evening, I will cover the following 5 areas

[Operator:]

[Operator Instructions] We have the first question from line of Mahrukh Adajania from Standard chartered.

[Mahrukh Adajania:]

Just had a couple of questions. Firstly, on the restructuring pipeline, is it on CDR? And if you see the last few years, then there has been a huge rush on CDR referrals in March. So is this INR 30 billion likely to grow as we move ahead in the quarter? So that's my first question.

[Rakesh Jha:]

On -- so the pipeline that we talked about, the INR 30 billion is largely -- case is already referred to CDR. So you are right, it's mostly CDR. But the rush towards March, I am not sure, it's more a function of the state of the economy and how things are working. It's very difficult to project, any kind of seasonality on that.

[Mahrukh Adajania:]

Okay. And in terms of these unhedged exposures, those guidelines. So have you been able to estimate any cost impact? Or is it still too early?

[Rakesh Jha:]

No. Actually, it's quite onerous to do that computations. I guess it will take us some time to kind of put that in place. And that will be true for all the banks. It is effective from April 1, so there is some time that banks have to kind of put all the data requirements and the computations in place. So I guess over the next few weeks, we'll have a better sense of how those numbers would look.

[Mahrukh Adajania:]

And all these draft guidelines are forming repositories and having a very quick resolution to stressed loans. Do you think that is going -- that could likely put pressure on the capital ratios even of large private banks? Because currently as a segment, private banks appear to be very well-capitalized. Do you think that's likely to put any pressure on the capital ratio of the private bank, including yours, in the next 1 year or so?

[Rakesh Jha:]

This is the way it goes. Guidelines, have been in the draft guidelines there. If you kind of -- ensure that banks, look at early resolution of cases. So I'm not sure that you'll have a direct impact on the capital itself of banks. So yes, initially there may be operational things of -- in the current state of economy there will be maybe a number of cases which are 60 days plus overdue. And you'll have to form that -- even join lending forum and also all things. So banks have given some feedback to RBI. Our expectation is that these guidelines will come out pretty soon. And they will, in the long run, be beneficial for the system. They may not have any immediate direct capital effect. Of course, there are other guidelines which are the -- which will have medium-term, definitely, capital implications for both private sector and PSU banks. But those other guidelines are more in medium term, over the next, I would say maybe 2 to 3 years.

[Mahrukh Adajania:]

Okay. And the other question I wanted to ask is that in terms of slippages, any lumpy accounts on the corporate sector, or...?

[Rakesh Jha:]

It depends on the definition of lumpy. But -- in generally, when we -- in additions as Kannan mentioned, were on the corporate SME side and they would be reasonably -- these may be large-sized NPLs around that.

[N. S. Kannan:]

Midsized cases.

[Mahrukh Adajania:]

Sorry?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Midsized cases.

[Operator:]

We have the next question from the line of Jatin Mamtani from Barclays.

[Jatin Mamtani:]

I just had a couple of questions on the restructured loans this quarter. Just wanted to understand the chunkiness of this. So would you be able to share what would be the concentration or the share of the, let's say, the 3 largest loans or the 4 largest loans and within the INR 2,046 crores, and maybe if you could talk about the sectors they belong to?

[Rakesh Jha:]

As Kannan mentioned, these are midsized corporates that have been --- got into restructuring. So while we don't give any specific concentration on these exposures, but from your understanding perspective, these are midsized corporates which have got into restructuring. And most of them are cases that have got referred to CDR.

[Jatin Mamtani:]

Understand, understand. And in the pipeline of INR 3,000 crores, is it a similar composition, or are there any chunky accounts there?

[Rakesh Jha:]

So these are not -- separately talked about which cases and all. But you would have seen from the public announcement that would have happened by these companies, that there are a couple of cases which have got referred, like -- which have been slightly on the higher side in terms of exposure. That's why the pipeline is at INR 30 billion compared to the lower pipeline we had earlier.

[Operator:]

[Operator Instructions] We'll take the next question from the line of Suruchi Jain from Morningstar.

[Suruchi Jain:]

I had 2 questions. One is on the fee income growth. It seems that you're doing something differently to get a really robust fee income growth. Could you tell us more about how that's going so robustly?

[N. S. Kannan:]

The fee income growth of 13% has been largely coming from a robust growth on the retail assets and retail liability side. Several decisions we have taken in the past, including Forex and other transactions at the retail liability, branches is helping. Of course, now retail assets, we have seen a growth over the last 3, 4 quarters. On the corporate side, I would say that the transaction banking side of corporate -- that's the commercial banking revenue streams are growing at around the same average growth level of fee income for the bank as a whole. And if you look at -- there's so many type of activities that has been a decline in the fee income growth. That is the general color on the fee income. So as we said earlier, we expect this kind of trend to continue in the coming months as well. And I would broadly say that, given the kind of projects on the corporate lending credit environment and our approach to this segment, the fee income growth has got much more granularized today. That is the kind of general color I can give you on the fee income.

[Suruchi Jain:]

Okay. And just my second question on overall year NIM guidance and tax guidance, given the changes in taxation as well as the FCNR deposits coming into play. Has your guidance -- what's your relative guidance?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Yes, we had talked about our own expectations in terms of the net interest margin expansion, which was 3.11% for the last year. We said for this financial year, we will expand it by 20 basis points. That pretty much continues, so that is the number we would be looking at for this fiscal as a whole. On the tax issue, as I mentioned earlier, this change in accounting on a prudent basis does not impact our tax outgo in terms of payment of tax to the government. So that is not the issue at all. The issue is that we have to, on a prudent basis, provide for the DTL as if the tax benefit available to us is a temporary benefit. So to that extent, what it will do is that about 2% additional impact it will have in the P&L accounting in terms of our effective tax rate. That is something we are budgeting first going forward. That -- so our effective tax rate from a P&L perspective, it can look at more like a 30% number going forward, compared to a lower number we would have seen in the past.

[Operator:]

We have the next question from the line of Manish Ostwal from K.R. Choksey.

[Manish Ostwal:]

My question, one is provision side. You have reported INR 695 crores of provision. So could you break this provision into a general provision and keep revision and the provision on account of restructured assets?

[Rakesh Jha:]

So the breakup that we gave every quarter is basically the provision on standard assets. That is, general provision that we've made is about INR 1 billion. And the balance is against NPLs and restructured loans.

[Manish Ostwal:]

Okay. And secondly, this -- can the deal portfolio during the quarter, have you any buyout which shows a higher growth and it is also original organic growth entirely?

[Rakesh Jha:]

It is organic growth actually. Most of the buyouts that we do incrementally for priority sectors, anyway now happens more in the form of investments. So that shows up in the investment book in the form of PTC. The growth that you're seeing is [indiscernible].

[Manish Ostwal:]

Lastly, the fee income breakup , could you just break this into corporate retail. What probably the portion of corporate fee income within retail fee income?

[Rakesh Jha:]

The retail fees -- overall is slightly above 55% of total fee income. The balance is corporate.

[Operator:]

We have the next question from the line of Amit Premchandani from UTI Mutual Fund.

[Amit Premchandani:]

If you look at the fresh stressed addition trajectory of ICICI, it has moved from 12 to 15 billion every quarter if you include slippage plus restructuring data every quarter. The last quarter, it was -- it didn't move to 20 billion. Now it is 32 billion. And you're saying that most of it is come from mid-corporates. So the large corporates is still not started, or they are restructuring themselves. So just wanted to have your view on what could be your guidance on this trajectory moving fresh stressed addition of slippage plus a restructuring costs?

[Rakesh Jha:]

As we have been saying that, it is indeed quite difficult to have any specific guidance on the quantum of restructuring and NPLs in a particular period. What we have been giving is, in terms of the cases that have got referred to CDR, which gives a broadlier -- quite a fair indicator of the expectations of restructuring in the coming quarters. Of course, that pipeline can increase if some other cases do come up in the interim. But that has been a reasonably good estimate of the restructuring in the coming quarter. In terms of the overall numbers, as we have mentioned that the pipeline for Q4 is about INR 13 billion. So that will mean that we will have a higher rate of addition to NPL and restructure in the Q4. But overall, in terms of the credit cost, we indeed mentioned during the previous quarter that we are seeing that the addition to restructuring in particular, and somewhat in addition to NPLs have been running higher than what we estimated at the beginning of the year. So that's why we had increased our guidance on the credit cost itself. So I would suggest that if you go by the credit cost estimate, we have talked about that we don't expect it to cross about 90 to 100 basis points. We are comfortable with that estimate that we have given out. Yes, in the interim in the next 2, 3 quarters, I think it is reasonable to expect that the addition to restructured loans will relatively be on the higher side, compared to the previous periods.

[Amit Premchandani:]

That previous period, then it must be Q1 and Q2 of this quarter and Q3 of this -- this year, sorry, or the last financial year?

[Rakesh Jha:]

This year itself, you have seen that the numbers have gone up. We did about have INR 10 billion in Q2 and about INR 20 billion in Q3. And Q4 will be -- INR 30 billion is the pipeline that we have.

[Amit Premchandani:]

So that should be the run rate for next 2, 3 quarters, that is what you're trying to...

[Rakesh Jha:]

As I've said, it's very difficult for us to have a run rate on that number because we don't have, for example, today, a list of cases which will definitely [indiscernible] It's not there. So from what we see today, we are giving you the estimate of that INR 30 billion which I referred to CDR. Going forward, as I said, compared to a normalized run rate, will credit cost be higher on the corporate side in the next few quarters? That will be the case. And for us, it is on an overall basis. It continues to get offset by the fact that on the retail side, we are seeing the credit quality to be extremely good. So overall, the credit cost numbers should still be within overall comfort levels in terms of the contribution to the return on assets.

[Amit Premchandani:]

And it will also, more -- more in line with your assessment of what is the credit quality in the large corporate space, because until now, they are not yet hit the CDR. So how comfortable are you with the large corporate portfolio that you have?

[Rakesh Jha:]

In terms of large corporate, again, if you look at it, how would you define the large corporate, indeed, in terms of the cases that have got referred to CDR, which you would be knowing by name, indeed there are some of the cases which are large corporate or large corporates or large borrower groups which are there.

[N. S. Kannan:]

It's also reflected on the INR 30 billion also.

[Rakesh Jha:]

Yes. So those -- some of the larger cases are definitely there. In a few of them, we have somewhat lesser exposure. In some of them, we have a higher exposure as well. So it's not that the larger corporates have kind of completely been away from the restructuring in itself. In general, for some of the larger borrower groups that we normally talk about, we don't want to go name by name, but indeed, in many of them, our level of comfort would be a relatively more than what maybe your comfort could be. That is possible. But as I said, that in the restructuring pipeline and actually what we have done in general, there would be some large cases as well.

[Amit Premchandani:]

And given the fact this [indiscernible] addition will go up, any guidance on the coverage ratio, because you have guidance of 1,900 basis points on credit cost, but coverage ratio has already hit 70%. I know that RBI has a requirement of 70% as of now, but internally, what is your target that you will not let it go beyond or below this?

[Rakesh Jha:]

I think what does happen on the coverage ratio, which you will be seeing across all banks, whether public or private sector banks, is that the incremental NPA provisions requirement is indeed closer to maybe 15%, 20% or, at most, 25%, if a case gets added to NPL. So by definition, when there are additions to NPLs, the coverage ratio does come off. And with some lag, that will, again, catch up. So it's not that we have any specific comfort level on a particular ratio. For us, the ratio has declined over the last few quarters, like for most of the banks. A part of the decline also has been because we have been writing off loans on a continuous basis over the last 3 or 4 quarters, about INR 4 billion to INR 5 billion, which itself takes away close to 1 percentage point of coverage ratio in every quarter. So it's not that we have any minimum number in our mind or any threshold which is there, so we will make provisions as we believe are appropriate. So it's not that we also stick to the very minimum which is required. So we do indeed do somewhat more than that, and that's why we are still at 70% despite the additions that we have seen this year.

[Amit Premchandani:]

And just on the FCNR front, maybe I missed it. How much money have you raised and how much money you will lent against it?

[Rakesh Jha:]

We raised about $2 billion of FCNR (B) deposits and we have lent from our overseas branches just over $1 billion against these deposits.

[Amit Premchandani:]

So just to understand from my perspective, how does the NPA benefit of the FCNR loan changed? Because if you lend it and you are using your capitals for the ROE of that capital we use is going down because of the low-spread business, so how do you look at it raising FCNR without giving -- without lending and raising FCNR after lending?

[Rakesh Jha:]

So lending -- so we'll just take it as the last question because there are other people...

[Amit Premchandani:]

Sure, sure.

[Rakesh Jha:]

So in terms of lending, which banks have done, it is against the FD itself. So it's actually, in that sense, completely risk-free. So there is -- so in that sense, whatever margin you make on the loan, it actually has an extremely high ROE. There's no real capital which is required because it's a loan against the deposit. So the way banks have looked at it is that if you look at overall cost for raising the FCNR(B) deposit and the swap cost which RBI was offering at 3.5%, and with no SLR and CRR, it was coming out to be lower than the term -- domestic term deposit cost. But in addition, the benefit of PSL was there. So in terms of economics, it was pretty clear that it makes sense.

[Operator:]

We have our next question from the line of Manish Karwa from Deutsche Bank.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

I just wanted to check, your Tier 1 capital has actually increased in this quarter compared to the previous quarter. What is the reason for that?

[Unknown Executive:]

In terms of -- as -- in the Tier 1 capital, we reduced the deferred tax asset from the overall Tier 1 capital to -- from the total capital to reach to the Tier 1 capital. So this quarter, the net deferred tax asset has come down for us by about INR 11 billion or INR 12 billion, and that is because we have created the deferred tax liability on the Special Reserve. So to that extent, we have got a benefit on our Tier 1 capital for quarter.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

So do you -- so you mean to say the deferred tax liability is set off against deferred tax asset?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Yes, the net deferred tax asset [indiscernible] Tier 1 -- from the total capital to reach the Tier 1 capital.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

Okay. But as you said, then this should not make any difference to your Tier 1, right, because incrementally, if you create deferred tax liabilities, that will impact your Tier 1 capital?

[Rakesh Jha:]

It's a function of whether you have deferred tax assets in the books, so the deferred tax -- because we had a lot of deferred tax assets, so that is why we got the benefit of creation of this deferred tax liability...

[N. S. Kannan:]

We do not have any adverse impact on the capital adequacy ratio because the reduction was always a net of tax is what we mentioned.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

Okay. So incrementally, now you do not have any deferred tax assets?

[N. S. Kannan:]

We still have some deferred tax assets which gets netted off from total capital.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

Okay. So incrementally then, every quarter now, you will be creating some deferred tax liability to the tune of like 2% of your tax rate...

[Rakesh Jha:]

Correct.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

That gets set off?

[Rakesh Jha:]

Yes.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

And just on the DTL [ph] thing that you will have a DTL [ph] mainly on mortgage and infrastructure loan, right?

[Rakesh Jha:]

Yes.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

So as the book of your mortgages continue to grow, the portion of the DTL [ph] can be higher as we move forward?

[Rakesh Jha:]

Meaning, if you look at overall for the last few years, the numbers have kind of stabilized, not getting more of proportion is going up substantially. We also do a lot more of working capital compared to the longer-term lending that we were doing earlier. So I don't think that those numbers will really increase from where we are.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

Right, and just for my understanding, let's assume 2 years down the line, you have a reasonably larger deferred tax liability book. Can -- how can you use it for your capital? Can you use it actually?

[Rakesh Jha:]

No.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

So that just becomes a provisioning line item or a current liability item for you?

[Rakesh Jha:]

Yes, it becomes a provision item. So of course, over time, because this is something which has just come up in the previous quarter. So as Kannan mentioned, as per statute, actually if you don't utilize the Special Reserve, there is -- it is not taxable at all. But given this ruling, I guess, banks will again kind of ask for some maybe changes in the tax rule itself, which may actually allow Special Reserve to be utilized after a long period of time or something of that sort. So we'll have to just evaluate what to do on this. But otherwise, there is no cash flow impact which is there. It's only a notional deferred tax impact which is there.

[Manish J. Karwa:]

Okay. And lastly, how much commissions do you pay on a quarter on your retail loans as of now?

[Rakesh Jha:]

We don't disclose that...

[Manish J. Karwa:]

Some rough indication? No, is that the thing that is increasing your other expenses on a sequential basis sharply?

[Rakesh Jha:]

It would also have contributed to some increase there. But typically, in the third quarter, we do have some higher expenses on, especially on advertisements and sales promotion. You also may have festive season, some expenses are indeed there. So the sourcing cost would have gone up, but that would not be the only the major driver.

[Operator:]

[Operator Instructions] We have the next question from the line of Abhishek Kothari from Networth Stock Broking.

[Abhishek Kothari:]

So just wanted to know what's your overall NPL from the restructured portfolio?

[Rakesh Jha:]

It's about -- if you look at all the loans that we have restructured over the last few years, the slippage from that has been about 10% or so.

[Abhishek Kothari:]

10%. And sir, I missed your opening remark regarding NBP coming down. Could you just explain that?

[N. S. Kannan:]

What he said was that the new business margins for the third quarter were lower at 10.9% because of 2 reasons

[Operator:]

We have the next question from the line of Anand Vasudevan from Franklin Templeton.

[Anand Vasudevan:]

We now have a clear visibility on the regulatory capital requirements over the next few years. So how do you assess your capital adequacy in this framework? So what I'd like to understand is what is your threshold and the comfort level for Tier 1 below which you'll want to raise cash equity based on the new glide path?

[Rakesh Jha:]

So indeed, there are now a set of draft and final guidelines which are in place. So most of those guidelines, we can kind of compute what the impact is. Some of them is still like migration to advanced approaches for credit, market and operational risk. I think that, still, the full clarity in terms of what the impact would be there, we'll work out over the next 12 or 18 months. In terms of the minimum Tier 1, and we also have been kind of discussing what that level should be. So it clearly seems that in the 6 or 7 years back, the minimum Tier 1 was more like 7.5% or 8%, below which, if you went, you would raise capital. It does look like, right now, that number should be closer to 10% over the next 2 years. That is the threshold that will become what the market expects. So we have kind of not yet, because given the level where we are, we are not close to those levels yet. So we are still kind of finalizing in our mind as to what level should trigger us to look at raising capital. But it could be in the region of 9.5%, 10% depending on how investors look at this. So given our current capital level, clearly, over the next couple of years, we would be comfortable with our capital adequacy, Tier 1 ratio in specific. Beyond that also, depending on how things go, how the migration path is and what are the expectations on capital, whether we can do some hybrid beyond that. So we'll have to see how it works and whether we have any...

[N. S. Kannan:]

Monetize.

[Unknown Executive:]

Monetization of the subsidiaries or...

[N. S. Kannan:]

Repatriation.

[Unknown Executive:]

Or repatriation from overseas subsidiary. I guess 2 years, for sure. Beyond that, we will see how things will pan out.

[Unknown Analyst:]

Okay. My second question is on asset quality. So you've given your guidance for the year. But do you anticipate any additional negative impact on portfolio quality looking into FY '15 from the further clamp down on government expenditure in the immediate quarter?

[Rakesh Jha:]

Anand, as you're saying in response to an earlier question, that given the sharp slowdown that the overall economy has seen along with other challenges, clearly, on the corporate side, that impact has been showing over the last few quarters. And while we believe that on a macro front, maybe things have kind of bottomed out and we should see slow recovery from here, but just the impact on the corporate SME portfolio, there is some lag which is there. So over the next 2, 3 quarters, there would be -- there would still be some incremental pain which is there for banks.

[Operator:]

We'll take the next question from the line Rajeev Varma from Bank of America.

[Rajeev Varma:]

Just one question. I want to know on the repatriation of capital, any color on that? Because you've somewhere mentioned, you were focusing on that.

[N. S. Kannan:]

Yes, the discussion for the regulators continue. We do believe that some kind of -- some amount of dividend from the overseas subsidiaries and some repatriation can happen over a period of time. And we continue to believe that capital adequacy ratios, which I mentioned in the opening remarks have been much, much higher than the regulatory requirements in those geographies. So our approach would be a calibrated growth and the continued discussions with the regulators for both capital rationalization, as well as -- or getting some dividend approval. The only thing is that since there is regulatory approvals involved, we won't be able to exactly determine the timing of the amount. But all efforts will be there from our side. That is very much on as we speak.

[Rajeev Varma:]

And just one other thing, in terms of the loan mix, you've highlighted that you're -- most of your slippages have been coming from the SME and mid-corporate. Do you have some -- SME's about 4.5%, as you've disclosed. Do you have some idea how much would be the mid-corporate constitute from loan mix?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Loan mix, we have not broken it out into mid and large corporates. The domestic corporates would be about, I think, 27% of our -- sorry, 31% of our...

[Rajeev Varma:]

Right, of your total loans.

[N. S. Kannan:]

Yes. That is some -- we have not broken it down. And we have, in the past, talked about what is our total infrastructure [ph] exposure, which is about 12% or so. So those are the only 2 numbers we have [indiscernible].

[Operator:]

Your next question is from the line of Saikiran Pulavarthi from Espirito Santo.

[Saikiran Pulavarthi:]

Just a quick comment on the cost. So I just wanted to understand actually, the cost growth have been much lower than the income growth for quite some time, almost like 7 to 8 quarters. Do you think this trend to continue or -- going forward, or is there any scope for further improvements here?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Our endeavor would be to keep the cost-to-income ratio below 40%. That is the kind of medium-term goal there we would work towards. So having met all the steps we have taken, including the technology initiatives that are really meant towards achieving the operating productivities. So that will continue. So you could take it as below 30% or something, which we want to target -- below 40% is what we want to target as a cost-to-income ratio.

[Saikiran Pulavarthi:]

I understand the cost-to-income, but if I look at the absolute basis of costs, your employee costs have been trending much smaller there too when you were growing your retail book, which is a little bit counterintuitive. We just want to understand your thoughts there.

[N. S. Kannan:]

In terms of -- if you look at the general environment in terms of the job growth in the economy or the kind of overall economic growth, they are not -- the cost -- the wage or other cost pressures associated with the 2007-type of an environment is not there today. So to that extent, we are able to plan, we are able to determine the salary increases and so on. So to that extent, given the overall economic conditions, the cost -- the pressures are also that much muted. So that is also reflecting somewhere on the overall growth of the employee expenses in our book.

[Rakesh Jha:]

And as we have mentioned in the previous quarter, that if you look at the previous quarter and maybe 9 months in aggregate, as well, there would be some benefit that we'd have gotten this year, especially when compared to last year because the interest rates have gone up and the provisions on retirements would be lower this year compared to the last year. So that would have given some benefit on the employee expenses as well.

[Saikiran Pulavarthi:]

Okay. And last question for my side. If you look at your vintages on the SME book or the retail book, how does it see versus the last cycle? Do you think individual vintages have peaked out, or what is the sense over there?

[Rakesh Jha:]

On which portfolio?

[N. S. Kannan:]

SME.

[Saikiran Pulavarthi:]

SME and retail.

[Rakesh Jha:]

Retail, actually the performance that we are seeing on -- based on the vintage growth is quite good, and we believe that there really is no worsening in trends that we have seen in any of those products. We did see some increase in delays in payments on the commercial vehicle portfolio, which we talked about in the last quarter. But even in terms of that portfolio, NPL additions have not really been significant. So retail portfolio, we are extremely comfortable. SME, we have been talking about that for the last 5 or 6 quarters, that the stress has continued on that portfolio. And we have seen addition to NPLs and restructure coming in from that portfolio. Incrementally, of course, we have been extremely cautious. We have seen -- you have seen that our portfolio, actually, has come off now -- actually declined in the most recent quarter. So hopefully now, it should pretty much on the SME portfolio, in terms of the stress, things should be kind of peaking out.

[N. S. Kannan:]

I think if you look at the growth numbers of -- relative growth numbers of each of these portfolios, that pretty much reflects our approach to this lending and our estimate of credit space in each of these portfolios. Just to illustrate, while we are very happy to, overall, grow the retail book and within that retail secured loans, we have brought down the growth of commercial vehicles by 17% on a year-on-year basis. If you look at the SME, again, 5.5% decline has been there on a year-on-year basis. As a result, SMEs just account for about 4.3% of our overall loan book. So our relative growth and the comfort that we have on passenger cars and mortgages reflect in the strong growth we have seen in retail secured book. Somewhat of a discomfort we have on the CV portfolio and also the demands of CV itself going down reflects our CV loan book growing by 15%. And SME, we have consistently with said that in the last few quarters, we have seen slippages, and as a result, we have brought down book systematically from the peak level of about 7.5% to 4.3% currently. So I would say that our actions are sort of an after reflection on the relative credit quality of these segments.

[Operator:]

The next question is from the line of Bajrang Bafna from Sunidhi Securities.

[Bajrang Bafna:]

We have seen a lot of CCI clearances over -- in the last 3 or 4 months. Could you provide some sense that -- have you seen some sort of ground level activity in terms of the corporates coming to you and asking for loans in the coming period, some sense on that?

[N. S. Kannan:]

I think the CCI clearances are mainly to do with the existing projects that are stuck or where there is some approval pending. So I think those will help in clearing out the issues in existing projects so that they can start -- get completed and start generating cash flows. But I think that they are not really creating new loan demand in that sense.

[Bajrang Bafna:]

Okay. And one sense on the -- whatever guidance that you are giving on the restructuring side is purely based on CDR cases. Are we seeing some sort of stress on the bilateral side also in coming quarters?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Just in terms of guidance, what we have said is that currently, the pipeline of our -- pipeline of cases that have been referred to CDR is about INR 30 billion, and as you know, there could be additions to that. And I guess, they -- even last quarter, we would've had some bilaterals, but largely, the cases being restructured are cases referred to CDR.

[Bajrang Bafna:]

But bilaterals had -- we're not seeing much of the pain as of now?

[N. S. Kannan:]

No, I'm saying it's -- the pain is there in the corporate sector. Now whether it's reflected in -- it depends on the number of lenders and the size of each lender. Whether it happens through a bilateral or a CDR is not that relevant.

[Operator:]

You have the next question from the line of Alpesh Mehta from Motilal Oswal Securities.

[Alpesh Mehta:]

First of all, what is the outstanding provisions on the restructured loans that we have done so far?

[Rakesh Jha:]

It's about slightly below INR 10 million.

[Alpesh Mehta:]

And while reporting numbers, do we net off this INR 10 million while reporting, or is it gross of that amount?

[N. S. Kannan:]

It's net.

[Rakesh Jha:]

We write -- it is net to restructuring.

[N. S. Kannan:]

Net restructured outstanding is net of this.

[Alpesh Mehta:]

So net of -- so our gross number would be roughly INR 96 billion or so?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Yes, that 's correct.

[Alpesh Mehta:]

Secondly, in the retail portfolio, the others category has grown on a Y-on-Y basis, even on a sequential basis, quite sharply. Is it to do with the agri-related lending...

[Rakesh Jha:]

That's primarily the rural products.

[Alpesh Mehta:]

Okay. And the -- for the housing loan portfolio, what is the lag proportion between the housing loans?

[N. S. Kannan:]

Top 20%, less than 20 [ph].

[Alpesh Mehta:]

Okay. And lastly, in this quarter, are ICICI home finance book has also grown. So incrementally, are we booking loans indeed in the HFC or it's still happening through bank?

[Unknown Executive:]

It's largely been happening through the bank. The HFC also does some business on [indiscernible].

[Operator:]

We have the next question from the line of Surendra Chetty from UBS.

[Surendra Chetty:]

I would like to understand, are there any funding plans through USD bond issuance in the near future?

[N. S. Kannan:]

No. We just concluded 1 fund-raising in the third quarter. And we do look at it based on the client demand for foreign currency funds and the market conditions at -- that are prevailing at any point of time. We have no immediate plan as such.

[Operator:]

Next question is from the line of from Puneet Maheshwari from ICRA Limited.

[Puneet Maheshwari:]

Sir, if you can share what is average cost of FCNR deposit mobilized under RBI's window?

[Rakesh Jha:]

I don't have that number separately, but that was a mandated rate which was there LIBOR plus. Plus 400 was the rate.

[N. S. Kannan:]

LIBOR plus 400 [indiscernible].

[Operator:]

We'll take the next question from the line of Adarsh P from Prabhudas Lilladher.

[Adarsh Parasrampuria:]

My question was on the restructuring that we did 20 and the 30 [ph] pipeline, I think, I believe at least media reports indicated that there are a lot of construction companies probably from shipbuilding as well, and the nature of the business also require a lot of non-fund base exposure to these companies. So I just wanted to understand, when we give the pipeline or what we've the restructured, what is the associated risk [indiscernible] once these limits non-fund base limits crystalize? Does this get added to the restructured base? Can you kind of throw some light on that?

[N. S. Kannan:]

So if it gets converted into funded exposure, it gets crystallized and included in the restructure.

[Adarsh Parasrampuria:]

Any kind of quantification on -- it seems that a lot of these entities that have got reported or concluded have a lot of non-fund base limits outstanding. Would it be possible to kind of indicate as to versus the size, the INR 50 billion rupees, how much was non-fund base exposure still is there which could get crystalized over the next 1 to 2 years?

[Rakesh Jha:]

So see, whatever -- it is not expected to going to get crystallized over the next 1 to 2 years to the extent that there are sort of evolvements [ph] or invocations [indiscernible] up to the point of restructuring [indiscernible] those also get factored into the restructuring. Thereafter, as long as the company has a going concern and performs its obligation, the evolvements [ph] normally should not be there or should not be material.

[N. S. Kannan:]

And the idea of a CDR is also to put in structure so that the company functions so their performance guarantees are not invoked at all. That is where the CDR kind of mechanism is helpful in making sure that the company does the performance activity while financial aspects have been restructured. So that evolvement [ph] of performance guarantees does not take place at all. That is being the endeavor of the lenders.

[Adarsh Parasrampuria:]

And would it be like safe that you will have reasonably large exposures on the non-fund base to some of the 4 or 5 large restructuring that have been done or are in the pipeline?

[N. S. Kannan:]

But that has always been in there. So I mean, in the construction sector for instance, the restructuring that we would have done 2 years ago or 1.5 years ago, also would have had a large non-fund [indiscernible]. And that has not lead to any bloating off of the outstanding restricted assets if you look at the trend of restructured assets.

[Operator:]

Participants, that was last question. I now hand the floor over back to Mr. N.S. Kannan for closing comments. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

[N. S. Kannan:]

Yes. thank you again, for joining this call. And any further questions, please contact us, Rakesh and I are available for that. Thank you, bye.

[Operator:]

Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf Of ICICI Bank, that concludes this conference call. Thank you for joining us. You may now disconnect your lines. Thank you.