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Hope springs for Bank of Baroda as virus effects seen manageable

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₹25,000 crore. A key assumption is that loans to large companies won’t turn bad. The increase in bad loans will be from retail and those will not be big.The bank also expects loan growth of 7-8% for FY21, higher than the 6% growth seen last fiscal year.

The merger, which took effect 1 April 2019, had kept the bank’s staff preoccupied. Therefore, pushing credit and recovering from borrowers was slow last year.

While the pandemic will impact growth, the low base from last year can make FY21 growth numbers look better.The merger has benefitted the bank in terms of cost reduction and increase in efficiencies.

Post-merger, it did not have to open new branches at the same pace it was earlier used to. Moreover, the merger has beefed up its.

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