The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website ‘Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks: June 2013’. The publication contains data on spatial distribution of aggregate deposits and gross bank credit of scheduled commercial banks including regional rural banks (RRBs) based on Basic Statistical Return (BSR)-7 as on last Friday of June (i.e. June 28, 2013). The data are classified according to states, districts, centres (top 100 and 200 centres), population groups and bank groups.

Highlights:

• The growth (y-o-y) in both aggregate deposits and gross bank credit decelerated to 13.5 per cent and 13.2 per cent, respectively, in June 2013 from their respective levels in the preceding quarter as well as a year ago. The growth in aggregate deposits and gross bank credit was lower across all population groups compared with a year ago.
• The top hundred centres, arranged according to the size of deposits accounted for 68.5 per cent of the aggregate deposits and the top hundred centres arranged according to the size of gross bank credit accounted for 76.9 per cent of gross bank credit.
• The offices with deposits of Rs. 100 million or more accounted for 70.3 per cent of the bank offices, 98.0 per cent of aggregate deposits and 95.0 per cent of gross bank credit. The offices with outstanding gross bank credit of Rs. 100 million or more accounted for 49.3 per cent of the offices, 80.4 per cent of deposits and 96.0 per cent of gross bank credit.
• Nationalised banks, SBI and its associates, and private sector banks accounted for 52.3 per cent, 22.3 per cent and 18.4 per cent of aggregate deposits, respectively, and for 50.2 per cent, 22.6 per cent and 19.5 per cent of gross bank credit, respectively.
• The credit-deposit (C-D) ratio of all Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) as on June 28, 2013 stood at 76.5 per cent. At the bank group level, C-D ratios of foreign banks (94.2 per cent), new private sector banks (83.5 per cent) and SBI and its associates (77.5 per cent) were higher than the all-India average.

Sangeeta Das

Director

Deposit and credit growth slowdown in scheduled commercial banks signals increased concentration and varied bank group C D ratios. Release of Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit for scheduled commercial banks as of June 28, 2013, based on BSR 7 returns. The publication records a year on year deceleration in aggregate deposits and gross bank credit to 13.5% and 13.2% respectively, with slower growth across all population groups. It shows significant geographic and office size concentration of deposits and credit, reports bank group shares in aggregate deposits and credit, and states the all India credit deposit ratio of scheduled commercial banks at 76.5%, with foreign banks, new private sector banks and the State Bank group exhibiting higher ratios than the national average.