Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am Pawan Kumar, General Manager, Performance Planning and Review Department of the bank.

On behalf of State Bank of India, I am delighted to welcome the analysts, investors, colleagues, and everyone present here today on the occasion of the declaration of the Q3 FY 2026 results of the bank. I also extend a very warm welcome to all the people who are accessing the event through our live webcast.

We have with us on the stage our Chairman sir, Shri C.S. Setty; our Managing Director, Corporate Banking and Subsidiaries, Shri Ashwini Kumar Tewari; our Managing Director, International Banking, Global Markets, and Technology, Shri Rana Ashutosh Kumar Singh; our Managing Director, Retail Business and Operations, Shri Ram Mohan Rao Amara; our Managing Director, Risk, Compliance, and SARG, Shri Ravi Ranjan; our Deputy Managing Director, Finance, Shri Anindya Sundar Paul.

Our Deputy Managing Directors heading various verticals and Managing Directors of our subsidiaries are seated in the front rows of this hall. We are also joined by Chief General Managers of different verticals, business groups, Chief General Managers and other senior officials of the circles, and various offices are connected through our live webcast.

To carry forward the proceedings, I request our Chairman sir to give a summary of the bank's Q3 FY 2026 performance and the strategic initiatives undertaken. We shall thereafter straightaway go to question-and-answer session.

However, before I request Chairman sir, I would like to read out the safe harbor statement. Certain statements in today's presentation may be forward-looking statements.

These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to uncertainty and changes in circumstances. Actual outcomes may differ materially from those included in these statements due to a variety of factors.

Thank you. Now I would request Chairman sir for his opening remarks.

Chairman sir, please.

Thank you. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for joining us for today's analyst meet following the announcement of the bank's Q3 FY 2026 results. At SBI, we have remained consistently focused on strengthening the fundamentals that create sustainable value for all stakeholders.

Our performance in the third quarter of FY 2026 reflects continuity, consistency, and the enduring strength of our franchise. I will begin with a brief overview of the global and domestic economic environment, followed by an update on the bank's performance.

Despite heightened geopolitical tensions and elevated global uncertainty, the Indian economy remains well-positioned, supported by strong macroeconomic fundamentals and a benign inflation environment. Global growth is projected at around 3.3% in 2025-26, while India continues to outperform with real GDP growth expected at about 7.4% in FY 2026.

India's potential growth remains close to 7%, with FY 2027 growth projected in the range of 6.8% to 7.2%. Growth is expected to remain resilient in FY 2027.

The Union Budget reinforces the government's commitment to inclusive and accelerated growth under the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047, with a proposed capital expenditure of ₹12.2 trillion, providing strong support to infrastructure and investment. On the external front, services exports are expected to remain resilient, while the merchandise exports should benefit from the recently concluded and prospective trade agreements, although geopolitical risks and global market volatility remain key downside risks.

The Indian financial system continues to remain strong and resilient, with robust capital, liquidity, asset quality, and profitability across banks and NBFCs. Alongside the numbers, we are strengthening the structural drivers of sustainable profitability, productivity, capital efficiency, and risk-adjusted growth commensurate with SBI's scale.

Our long-term ambition is aligned with Viksit Bharat 2047, and our strategy is anchored around a long-term horizon with continuous investment in people, processes, products, and technology. The new YONO represents a fundamental redesign of our digital operating model through YONO-ization of the bank.

Beyond acquisition, the focus is on lowering cost to serve, enhancing customer value, and improving lifetime value. Scaling YONO from 10 crore registered users to 20 crore over the next 2 to 3 years is expected to support operating leverage and ROA sustainability.

CHAKRA, our Centre of Excellence for Sunrise Sectors, institutionalizes our ability to support prudent capital allocation in emerging segments. We have initiated, as I mentioned last time, a process simplification and a phased deployment of nearly 10,000 Seva Saarthis, our floor coordinators at high footfall branches for migrating routine transactions to digital channels.

Collectively, these initiatives support consistent performance across cycles, with growth that is profitable, well-capitalized, and prudently risk-managed. On the performance front, I am happy to share that the bank has declared highest ever quarterly net profit of ₹21,028 crore and total business has crossed ₹103 trillion, reflecting customers' continued trust in us.

The net profit is up by 24.49% year-on-year, driven by higher operating profitability and lower credit cost at 0.29%. The operating profit is ₹32,862 crore, up 39.54% year-on-year.

The net interest income is ₹45,190 crore, up 9% year-on-year, while the domestic NIM stands at 3.12% for the quarter. Bank's total deposit growth has remained healthy with 9.02% year-on-year, along with current account registering growth in double digits at 10%, 10.32%, with CASA ratio at 39.13%, despite very competitive market environment.

Retail term deposits have grown by a robust 14.54%. Deposits of our foreign offices have also grown well at 8.32% on year-on-year basis.

The credit growth was up 15.14% year-on-year as on December 2025, which was driven by all the segments registering growth. The domestic credit-deposit ratio was at 72.98% at the end of Q3, an improvement of 404 basis points year-on-year.

All the components of RAM—retail, agriculture, MSME—have witnessed robust growth. The corporate credit has seen a rebound and has grown by 13.37%.

The asset quality continues to be industry-leading with gross NPAs at 1.57%, improving by 50 basis points, and net NPA at 0.39%, improving by 14 basis points. Notably, the PCR was up 88 basis points year-on-year to 75.54%.

The NPA continues to be at its lowest level in over two decades, which demonstrates the quality of our loan portfolio, disciplined credit practices, underwriting capability, and sustained recoveries. The bank remains well-capitalized, and the capital adequacy ratio has improved by 101 basis points year-on-year and stands at 14.04%, which is well above the regulatory minimum requirements.

Further, our subsidiaries continue to demonstrate consistent performance and strengthen value for all our stakeholders with their expansion of digital channels, innovative products, and enhanced customer experience. At digital front, we have continued to make steady and meaningful progress.

We see digital transformation as a continuous journey of evolution, and YONO remains central to this journey. With over 9.65 crore registered customers and registrations for our new YONO crossing the 3 crore mark within a short period of 1 month since its launch, reflecting strong and sustained adoption.

Digital channels are now firmly embedded in our customers' behavior. While we are encouraged by our performance in Q3, we remain mindful of structural shifts in the financial system, particularly the increasing financialization of household savings.

Over time, this trend will gradually reshape bank balance sheets towards more diversified and market-based funding, supported by greater innovation and deeper integration of digital platforms. At SBI, we are proactively adapting by strengthening our liability franchise, increasing our share of current accounts, and leveraging YONO to enhance customer acquisition and retention.

Our strategy is forward-looking, focused on technology and analytics to remain competitive and future-ready. We remain sharply focused on efficiency and return metrics, with our ROA consistently greater than 1% and ROE at 20.68% at the end of Q3.

SBI is among the very few global financial institutions capable of sustaining a ROA of over 1% at this scale, with an advances book of approximately ₹47 trillion, investments of about ₹17 trillion, deposits of around ₹57 trillion, and a balance sheet size of nearly ₹72 trillion. Our strong asset quality reflects disciplined, risk-adjusted lending and portfolio resilience, while robust internal capital generation supports future CET1 accretion and long-term growth.

Our people remain central to this journey, supported through focused training, continuous upskilling, and an inclusive work culture, ensuring a skilled and motivated workforce in a rapidly evolving banking landscape. To conclude, I would like to thank all of you once again for your continued support and engagement with the bank.

Our priorities remain firmly aligned with supporting India's economic growth while creating long-term, sustainable value for all stakeholders. My team and I love to be happy to take your questions.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chairman sir. We now invite questions from the audience.

For the benefit of all, we request you to kindly mention your name and company before asking the questions. To accommodate all the questions, we request you to restrict your questions to maximum two at a time.

Also kindly restrict your questions to the financial results only, and no question be asked about specific accounts, please. In case you have additional questions, the same can be asked at the end.

We now proceed with the question-and-answer session, please.

Compliments to you, sir, for the yet another good quarter, rather the one of the best quarter profitability point of view, even asset quality point of view, and even business growth point of view, which was in the earlier first and second quarter was not subdued, but better than that is this quarter. Compliments for the same.

Having said that, sir, on the profitability, in the last quarter we had that exceptional profit of the sale of YES Bank shares, but in spite of that, this quarter profit is matching the last quarter's profit. The main component which I see here is that miscellaneous income has gone up to ₹5,154 crore as against ₹2,897 crore, and also the forex and derivatives, about 2.5 to ₹3,000 is that component.

What has contributed to this profit? Because but for that ₹4,500 crore of YES Bank, the profit should have been lower in this quarter as compared to last quarter of about ₹3,000 crore.

This is first.

First question. I was just waiting for the next question, Ajmera sahab.

Please go ahead. You want me to answer this first and then we'll move on?

If you permit me, I don't know whether shall I—

Yes, one more question, please.

Okay. The another one, sir, that in the last quarter the business growth is very good, especially the credit growth.

Now having achieved that, would you revise your targets for the credit especially so as to have the proper estimate of the profitability for the whole of the FY 2026 going forward when the bank is doing well? One or two more things that our loan book has grown phenomenally at a very high speed, and as well as I think the personal loans have also grown.

Can you give some color going forward on the overall credit growth segment-wise coming forward? One observation is that this non-NPA provision of about ₹30,642 crore.

This is basically beyond the requirement as per the IRAC. Is it to take care of the ECL or to take care of any chunky account which you are looking or it's a floating provision you want to continue and rather increase it in future?

Thank you, Ajmera sahab, for the good words which you mentioned. The profitability in Q3 has come from many levers.

I did mention in Q1, Q2 that both on the growth side as well as on the profitability side, SBI has many levers and we will continue to use them. If you see our fee-based income, I think most of the segments have shown good growth, that is cross-sell, up-sell, the government business, LC business also is remaining, and fee-based income in terms of processing charges and recovery in written-off accounts, and more importantly, the credit growth across the segments.

Apart from that, we also have focused on the moderating the cost of resources, which has given the uptick in the net interest income. Net interest income growth of 9% is a combination of both containing the cost of resources as well as the credit growth which has happened.

If I have to talk about one-off, I think the one item which is a dividend, special dividend we have received around 2,200 from SBI Mutual Fund. Even you net off this one-off, I think we have done fairly well in terms of every area, and also the modest credit cost also contributed to the uptick in the profitability.

We also focused on the moderating the operating expenses. While our staff costs are broadly rigid, we try to reduce the cost of overheads, and that also has been one of the reasons why you see the good profitability.

On the credit growth advice, we had given 12% to 14% credit guidance earlier. We are revising that upwards to 13% to 15% for the current quarter.

We will give a full-year guidance when we meet again in the Q1, but for the current year, I think this current quarter we are revising our credit growth estimate to 13% to 15% based on the trend which we have seen in the current quarter so far. Segment-wise credit growth, I think the growth has been secular.

If you see this slide particularly that we had given the guidance that we would be having a double-digit corporate credit growth in Q3, and we hope to continue that double-digit credit growth in the corporate side in Q4 also, which means that RAM would significantly be contributing to the growth, continue to contribute. We also see that corporate book growing in double digits, which means that our guidance of 13% to 15% is coming from all the segments.

Non-NPA provisions, I think the COVID provisions, 3,500, is continuing, and there are some proactive provisions which we have done account-specific, but this broadly is also a standard asset provision. The idea of presenting this is that we have the ability to take care of any untoward incidents and the way we want to manage the balance sheet.

It's not that this is being built for the ECL. That's not the idea.

Just one more, sir. Just one point.

Sir, we have given the breakup of the AUCA account of ₹1,62,464 crore. Beyond 10 years is 23,000-and-odd crore, 5 years ₹87,000 crore, and below 5 years ₹51,000 crore.

In order to get the proper color for the recovery from the AUCA accounts, what kind of strategy and efforts which we are having? Beyond 10 years, what is the possibility?

What kind of those accounts are between 5 and 10? Below 5, why not we have a higher percentage of recovery?

Because if you see the underwriting quality during last 5 years, I think your entire current 5 years loan book to NPA, just a guesswork, maybe even less than 0.75% or 1%. The way I look at the current this thing.

From recovery point of view, the 5 years means from the date of transfer— These are not from the

NPA. Correct.

Transfer to that

AUCA.

Beyond 5 years,

even older.

Still, more recovery or better chances. How do we look at it?

See,

in the recent slippages, you would definitely have a better recoveries. In fact, much of the run rate what we are witnessing, around ₹2,000 crore per quarter, is also coming from the recent slippages, that is recent write-offs, which means around 2 to 3-year-old.

You're right. I think less than 5-year written-off accounts will have a better recovery rate, but I think the most appropriate way is to look at the portfolio level.

What we have given earlier guidance also, we're still sticking, 6% to 8% is the recovery which is possible in this portfolio, not beyond that. While the age-wise there could be some higher recovery and lower recovery, and there could not be any recovery at all in some of the accounts, it is better to assume that we are looking at 6% to 8% recovery overall.

I think we still stick to that guidance, Ajmera sahab.

Okay. Thank you, sir.

Hello sir, congratulations. Sir, I had a couple of questions.

Firstly, in terms of your NIM outlook, longer term and even for the fourth quarter, you had earlier, I think there was a guidance that NIM would be about 3% in the fourth quarter. Does that still hold?

Is there scope for cost of funds to come down further? That's part of the same question.

NIM outlook for fourth quarter and longer term with focus on cost of funds. Secondly, in fees, the CVE income has grown very sharply.

So—

Which income?

CVE. Any comments you wanted to make on that?

Because it's a sharp growth, Q-o-Q and Y-o-Y. Just one more question: what would have been the interest on income tax refunds for this quarter and for last quarter?

Yeah.

Okay. On the NIM front, I think we're still sticking, without calling it as a short-term, long-term NIM, I think we have said that the exit NIM for the current year would be about 3%, and our long-term guidance is 3% through the cycles.

I think we will stick to that. There could be some upside here and there, but I think it's fair to assume that 3% guidance, about 3% guidance holds good both for the Q4, that means '26 exit NIM, and '27, '28 year year NIM also.

I think we are sticking to that 3% guidance. On the CVE income, there has been good growth in terms of life insurance.

The GST benefit, we have seen, I think, the number of policies sold has also increased. That has contributed.

Also the trail income from the mutual fund has also gone up. There is a secular movement in terms of the CVE.

CVE is basically the cross-sell income, right? I think that's that's been a good growth story.

We also enhanced the number of products which are made available through our counters and also on the YONO channel. That also has contributed to the growth in the CVE income.

Interest on the IT refund, you had the numbers ready, please.

Quarter 3, interest on income tax refund was ₹769 crore, and the similar amount last quarter was ₹372 crore.

Sir. Sir, and cost of funds, scope for deposit cost to come down?

Cost of funds, I think what we have done strategically is that we focus more on the retail deposits. We have not moved to the wholesale deposits.

Even in the wholesale deposits, we moved more into bulk card rate deposits, that means they are almost equivalent to the retail term deposit rates. You've seen a good growth on the card rate.

We have not gone aggressive on the differential interest rates or high-cost deposits. That has also helped us in terms of containing the cost.

We should also remember that 39% CASA at this level is also contributing to bringing down the cost. We got the full benefit of savings bank reduction in interest rate to 2.5%, and current account 10% growth rate is also helping us to contain the cost of funds.

I think broadly the cost of funds will remain at this level for the Q4 also. We don't want to go beyond Q4.

I think we will take a call in the Q1. We may have to see how the credit growth is going to play out because all these trade deals are extremely positive, right?

There would be definitely an improved credit climate. While Q1 of any financial year is generally a slow quarter, we will take a call in terms of how our deposit strategy will play out, while we have adequate liquidity and as well as capital buffers to support the credit growth.

Thank you, sir.

Hi sir. Sir, Jai Mundhra from ICICI Securities.

Sir, just continuing on the previous question, you said that COF, cost of funds, may remain stable, right? Is it because that the bulk deposit rates in the system, they have actually shot up in the last 2, 3 months?

Is that one of the reason? Because otherwise, your retail deposits should keep repricing, right?

Because what you had done in the June, July months, that should continue to flow through, right? Why would the cost of fund be stable, until and unless there is some moving parts, some portion of the deposit where the rates are a bit higher?

No, the cost of the retail term deposits are also high even after repricing. See, broadly, the book has got repriced.

Only last reduction in interest rate will be available for another 6 to 8 months. Probably the repricing will happen.

What I'm seeing is that the stabilization of the interest rates on the retail term deposits also. There is nothing much we will be able to reduce.

That shows that again what kind of deposit mobilization we need to do going forward if the credit growth comes. Q4, I think broadly the numbers remain.

There could be some repricing going forward because what we have done in the last quarter, the interest rate reduction will play out for some time. I broadly believe that reduction in the cost of funds is unlikely.

We will be maintaining at this level. Maybe if we are able to mobilize a little more current accounts, generally which happens in the Q4, it may help us to moderate the cost of funds.

Right. Okay.

Sir, on Xpress Credit, right? Now the portfolio has grown at 3%, 4% Q-o-Q.

We have been maintaining that there is a decent, good pick-up in the disbursement. Sir, actually what would help if you can give the absolute rupees crore number in disbursement?

Because that will give the more trend line because the portfolio behavior may be slowly to see the growth, but if you can share the disbursement number in Xpress Credit, that will give a more clarity.

No, we don't disclose what kind of disbursements we do on each product. I think that's not appropriate.

What we are sticking to that is that we were hoping to have a double-digit growth in Xpress Credit. There seems to be some movement towards gold loan, may not be significant.

Some of this corporate salary packages, this product is available only for the salary account holders. We are seeing that a part of that salary holder segment has availed gold loan, which they would have otherwise taken the Xpress Credit.

It's for two reasons: one is the value of gold has gone up, the amount of gold loan which they can get has increased, and the rate differential is significant. That has probably not resulted in the expected growth rate.

The very fact that we are able to manage this portfolio at this level, which means that our sanctions, disbursements are robust.

Lastly on gold loan, sir. I think there is a 95% Y-o-Y increase in the portfolio.

Is this entire organic, or there is some reclassification from agri gold to retail gold? What are the risk mitigants here, in the sense that what is the origination LTV and maybe the book LTV, because prices have been rising one way only?

We do a deep dive on this portfolio every day. We monitor the LTVs.

What we see that one is your first question in terms of shifts. There was some shift from agri gold loan to personal gold loan, but the shift shifted back after RBI's clarified on the agri gold loan.

I think that shift is not happening too much on.

By customer.

I think that is not a major worry. Under personal gold loan LTVs is not only about the portfolio LTV.

Sometimes portfolio LTV can be misleading, because 2 years ago somebody has taken the gold loan, and when the price was low, then the outstanding versus the value would be significantly lower. We bucket them both on the vintage as well as in terms of the amount.

We see that the LTVs are extremely modest, and we have sufficient room in terms of the LTVs. For instance, I think, in agri gold loan, the average LTV is 54.89%, and in case of personal gold loan, it is 51%.

Even if you take the latest vintage also, we don't go overboard on the LTVs. There's a adequate margin available on them.

Another data point which I would like to give to you is that the number of gold loans auctioned is just about 20, 30 in our huge portfolio of gold loans what we have. That means, even if the price fluctuation is there or the margin if we have to ask someone that margin call, we don't call it margin call, but we found that nobody allows this account to become NPA.

They just ensure that they pay off the loan. This portfolio is holding up very well.

There's no concern on this.

Sir, what is the agri gold loan book, sir, if you may have? That's Retail we have given.

No, agri gold loan as on December is ₹1,44,000 crore.

Okay. Thank you, and all the very best, sir.

Sir, Sushil Choksey, Indus Equity. First, a congratulation to team SBI for a great performance.

Sir, you had rightly called that the RBI rate reduction cycle is bottomed out, means it may not look anything negative when the interest rate scenario can be flat or upwards now onwards. Current volatility led by global factors mainly, GST has been a benefit, budget has been benefit, the EU and the US trade would benefit.

How are you seeing the scenario balancing on the rate cycle and the credit outlook based on all these parameters in the current year?

On the credit side, I think it's extremely positive. Two things: one is the system itself will get benefited with the positivity which is created on the trade deals, on the GST, on the income tax, on the monetary measures what have been announced.

More importantly, SBI is well-positioned in capitalizing on all these positive developments. That is also one of the reasons why I have given the revised guidance on the credit growth.

Even budget announcements, both on the infrastructure side, and we are also looking at what kind of infrastructure guarantee which will come, and MSME. For instance, the CHAKRA, what I mentioned in terms of the sunrise sectors, many sectors have been mentioned in the budget itself.

That means our thought process is completely aligned with what the government initiatives are going. To that extent, I think SBI is well-positioned.

We also are a very large player in MSME with 15% to 16% market share and growing. I believe that SBI will get benefited in supporting MSME growth, both on the champion MSMEs, even before the government has announced champion MSMEs, internally, we have started categorizing which are these MSMEs which have huge growth potential.

We try to categorize them into platinum, gold, and support them proactively in terms of their growth, technology, and market linkages. Many things what we are trying to do with MSME aligns well with the positive developments which have happened.

I believe that we are on the right path in terms of the credit growth, and we are in the right path in terms both in India as well as cross-border opportunities which will emerge on account of these trade deals.

Second question, sir. Led by all the factors, are you sensing government has given positive policy on data center, which means renewable will be required on a larger number?

Nuclear is being talked about. Shipbuilding is being spoken about.

Are we getting any green shoots early, whether it's SBI Capital Markets assessing or internally on credit, that ticket size which used to be ₹2,000, ₹5,000 crore project would be ₹30,000, ₹50,000 crore kind projects?

We are active in data center financing. The mega data centers which are announced, they still have to come with the business plan.

I think wherever data center capacities are being created, we are part of that journey. In terms of the other sectors, you're right, I think there will be a good amount of demand for the green energy for these data centers.

Renewable energy is one of the important segments which we're focusing on. Incidentally, our green portfolio has reached ₹1 lakh crore, which constitutes renewable energy predominantly, which means that these growth opportunities are definitely being considered by us.

Sir, your subsidiaries' contribution to the balance sheet is on uptick, specifically led by dividend you said SBI Mutual Fund. Is this number on a higher growth trajectory, or it will remain flat from here?

Higher growth trajectory,

it will show higher contribution or—

I think we definitely hope that the subsidiaries are doing very well, and I think they're also investing heavily into digitalization, customer-oriented initiatives. I don't know how much SBI Life talks to the investors.

I would like to point out one major activity SBI Life does beyond the profits is Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana. The PMJJBY, which is the micro-insurance which is provided to financial inclusion customers through the banking channel SBI, we have 47% market share in the PMJJBY and fully anchored by the SBI Life.

There is absolutely no complaints in terms of the settlement. They are the top of the category in terms of providing the customer service.

Service at scale is something what SBI Life is able to achieve, and bancassurance is going to play an important role in this. We are also seeing the same trend continuing in the non-life, mutual funds, credit card business.

I think the combination of their digitalization and their underwriting processes, their customer orientation is helping us to increase our CVE income also.

Sir, can this number double in 3 years?

Our idea is that we've set a target of a billion dollar for CVE income. If the rupee stays where it is, I think we should be able to reach that $1 billion CVE income soon.

Thank you for answering all my questions.

Hi, you just here. Chintan Joshi from Autonomous.

Sir, can we remain on that topic of growth? With the trade deal, there's a scope for corporate-led expansion, and you have the capacity on your balance sheet to grow.

Where could you take your LDR ratio if there's that demand, credit demand coming, be it trade deals or improving economy? Within that, if you do grow corporate loans, do they act as a drag on your NIMs, or are you able to link it with CASA growth and get it back some other way?

Because traditionally corporate loans would be a drag on your NIMs. That would be helpful color on that topic.

If you see in the Q3 performance, we have had almost more than 13% corporate credit growth. We have not compromised on the margins.

We have ensured that the NIM guidance what we have given is maintained despite 13% credit growth coming from the corporate side, which means that that philosophy of pricing the risk properly will continue. I think we never deviate from that.

We also have ensured that the ecosystem banking in the corporate side is strengthened further. Today, I just want to tell you an inside story that any corporate underwriting today, we have a checklist of 22 items which we monitor, whether we have clear engagement on these 22 non-funding areas, whether it is cash management, whether it is salary accounts, whether it is letters of credit, our foreign exchange.

The awareness on the operating level has moved from corporate lending to corporate banking in very significant manner. The sensitivity towards this engagement is intense now, which gives us confidence that even if we have to compromise on some pricing on a corporate, it would be purely based on what is the value which we are generating from the corporate.

I don't think we should have any concern in terms of margin compression with a corporate growth book coming back in a very significant manner as we approved in Q3 also. We are very sensitive to that, the value creation from our corporate relationships.

I'm very glad to say that corporates are also responding in the similar fashion, and some of the products which they were never using from SBI, we have improved the product profile, product delivery, and then they're too happy to take the products from us. It's a long journey, but I think we are there in the right direction.

On the LDRs, the credit-deposit ratio, I think we do not want to give a guidance. Obviously, it's an evolving situation.

In the short term, we are very confident that the credit growth, whatever we are envisaging, 13% to 15%, will be comfortably be met by our liquidity as well as capital ratios. Sir,

the reason I asked the question was because there was a 3.2% increase in LDR ratio this quarter,

and

NIMs are broadly flat. Now, I understand your international NIMs are down, but a 3.2% increase in LDR should be associated with better NIMs.

That's why I asked that question.

3.2% LDR is also coming from the working capital drawals. Typically, working capital loans don't give the yield pick-up as much as you expect.

It's not coming only from the term loans alone. The working capital loans are reasonably priced, and these are high quality exposures.

One more important thing which I keep talking about is you look at our RWAs. Despite this growth, we have not significantly enhanced our RWAs.

That is also one of the reasons why you don't see the commensurate pick-up in our margins. We play very cautiously on the risk side also.

Sir, second question was on the the question from Jay on cost of funds. Wouldn't it be a failure of transmission if the Q4 deposits from last year didn't reprice this year and had gave a benefit on cost of funds?

Because we've seen a December rate cut that's is struggling through pass-through on the liability side, not just, from what you're indicating, but also for the system, which leads to margin contraction because the EBLR book reprices. How do you see that puzzle?

There should be transmission from that fourth quarter last year to the fourth quarter this year. Would be my guess.

Sorry. December rate cut has not resulted in any repricing of deposits.

No, it hasn't.

That technically that transmission did not happen on the deposit side while it had happened on the asset side. The overall transmission, if you see, I think the governor has also mentioned, on the stock, it is only 45 basis points.

On the incremental deposits, I think the passing on of the interest rate on the deposits would be around 80, 85 basis points. 90, 95 basis points is something what happened.

Full transmission is unlikely to happen on the deposit side. The repricing which benefited, I think 75% to 80% repricing has already happened.

Sir, exactly the point, right? 45 going to 80 should reflect in your balance sheet next quarter as well.

It will reflect in this quarter definitely. It may not be very significant.

That is what I was trying to say.

Thank you.

Sir, excellent Q3 numbers. Manoj Alimchandani.

Excellent Q3 numbers, just magic. Hats off to the management team and all the employees.

Really wonderful. Now couple of questions.

One is would like to know your thoughts particularly for the branch expansion globally in the United States and EU. With the kind of sentiments totally turning around, it seems we should have a greater share of the global pie in business.

Apparently, banking, we are top, and you also are number one consumer banker globally, right? We talked about that.

Your thoughts, we would expect it should be may not be too early, just your thoughts ultimately or to execute it. There could be a good scope for substantial increase in number of branches, regions globally.

It can, I think, maybe scope for more than doubling in next 3 years. One is that.

Next thing is our leadership, we started with that, has been contributing to banking sector in a great way, particularly recent couple of last month's announcements. Our MDs are heading: Arijit Basu, Chairman of IndusInd Bank, number five bank in India; and Vijay, also the CEO of YES Bank.

Two great contributions, number five and number six, contributed by SBI. Surprisingly, we were all wondering what happened.

We need a CFO from outside. Advertisement for a contract arrangement came.

It came out of the blue. When we have the topmost leaders, we need to contribute CFOs to the top 10 banks globally.

If you can just share your thoughts on that. Next is our SEBI Chairman talked about intent on corporate bond market.

It has been a struggle we have seen for last 25 years. He, in fact, said there is huge scope for multiplying the bond market.

Now here, what could be the thing we can gain significantly by way of investment in corporate bonds, because we get about 50 to 150 basis points better rates in investment in corporate bonds than in lending. Of course, it would also have a impact on the fund raise, but in deposit rates, we are again much ahead of the curve.

If you can share your thoughts on this. Of course, there another latest news which came in mutual fund yesterday.

The global head of BlackRock was here. We are talking about multiplying the mutual fund industry by two in 5 years.

That could be opportunity for us also, because we are running the largest mutual fund. In fact, if we delayed the IPO and come after 5 years, we can get three times market cap based on this kind of things.

Your thought process on this.

Thank you, Manoj. Thank you very much.

I think on the overseas expansion, most of these geographies where, barring New Zealand, where the trade deals are signed, we have good presence and very large presence at it. For example, US, New York branch is the largest operations for us.

In this jurisdiction, we are broadly the wholesale bankers. I believe that the trade deals are going to help us mostly in the corporate and MSME funding, which is an opportunity which is available locally here, and we would like to definitely take that opportunity.

Any of these corporates accessing the overseas market, we have presence across geographies here, and our ability to fund those transactions, either by way of trade finance, or by way of ECB, is very, very large. I don't think we need to look at branch expansion.

In the EU area, we have two fairly large branch, one in Frankfurt and Antwerp. These branches are taking care of the overall requirements.

In the US, if you see, we have wholesale banks both in New York and Chicago and Los Angeles, and we have retail presence in the whole of California. That is where I feel that there is some expansion in the retail side is potentially possible.

We are expanding, for instance, we will soon be opening a branch of SBI California in Dallas, because they can open multi-state branches. I think we will be selective in terms of physical expansion.

We also would like to use our YONO Global, which is a digital app across the geographies. Almost, I think, 11 to 12 geographies, we already launched YONO Global.

We would like to build retail presence through YONO Global, not by opening the physical branches. I think, on the overseas expansion, I don't think we will be aggressive.

I want to be clear on that. If opportunities arise in the new geographies, we'll definitely look at it.

On the corporate bond market, I fully agree with you that, I think, we've been talking about corporate bond market deepening for so many years. There are many reasons, but it is time now the corporate bond market has to become vibrant.

Our participation in corporate bond market is based on what is our credit growth. If there is a loan growth requirements, our priority is to fund that loan growth.

We also have a mix. If you see all our large corporates have loan limits as well as investment limits, which facilitate us to put the corporate NCD subscriptions.

I think one more development what probably would help in terms of further strengthening is the partial credit enhancement, which is now allowed by the RBI. The partial credit enhancement will enable slightly lower-rated corporates to access the bond market.

Today, it is typically dominated by AAA companies. How do we bring A-rated or AA-rated companies into bond market?

Through partial credit enhancement is something what we're working on. The CFO, I'm sure that you made that comment on the lighter note.

The CFO, there are a typical qualifications which RBI has fixed. We would definitely be creating the pipeline.

In the interim, we needed a market resource, but it is also open to our internal candidates. If somebody is available, we'll definitely consider that.

Mutual fund, we are not fully exiting. We still have potential to monetize further when market improves.

I see a great opportunity for mutual fund growth, and SBI Mutual Fund will be playing a very, very large role in this. Thank you.

Sir, one more recognition I would like to highlight for benefit of all, particularly congrats to you and our DMD Finance for getting the corporate excellence in financial reporting by the regulator award,

third time.

Again, last year we got it. I was involved in the process, and this year SBI has gotten, and also YES Bank has also got it.

That also accolades to you and the team. Congrats once again.

Thank you. Hi.

Can you hear me?

Yeah.

Ankit Bihani from Nomura. I wanted to ask about the outlook on the treasury income now.

Given that the yields have hardened and we assume it remains status quo,

Where are you?

Here, here. Should we see treasury income moderating sharply from here on, or we can sell AFS securities or participate in OMO through SDMs to manage treasury income?

My first question is on that. The second question is on LCR.

What is our average LCR for the quarter, and what would be the impact of the new norms when they get implemented in 1st April? The third question is on your fee income break-up, you gave miscellaneous fee income as a part as well.

We have seen decent pick-up there in the last two quarters. What is driving that, and what is that fee, basically?

Thank you.

You want to take it?

Rana Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Managing Director, International Banking, Global Markets & Technology): Treasury income side, at least we are not envisaging any significant decline what you are saying. This number should continue like this, not more.

There'll not be any reduction overall. We are talking about treasury, global market is forex income, treasury income, equity investment.

If we exclude the forex income, I'm just talking about near FVTPL book. If the yields harden, you'll have to mark to market on that book, right?

Rana Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Managing Director, International Banking, Global Markets & Technology):

That's right.

Then how do you manage the treasury income? Is that we sell AFS securities—

Rana Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Managing Director, International Banking, Global Markets & Technology): No, there are opportunity also when something that is happened, yield goes up, and we have MTM hits. This quarter also, we have seen this happening that because of the MTM, but we have maybe covered somewhere else.

Largely this will—

Do you think this is something structural that can continue for a longer time, or— Rana Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Managing Director, International Banking, Global Markets & Technology):

No, we have opportunities for making some other income somewhere else.

See, just to clarify what he is trying to say is that if your question is in terms of how do we manage the yield movement, our internal view is that the yields probably will range from 6.55% to 6.75%. In this range, there is no concern on the MTM hit.

In any case, the Q3 numbers have not been built on the MTM gains if you have seen. We believe that there may not be great contribution coming from the positive MTM on the book.

The negative MTM impact would be less because FVTPL HFT book is small. Even if that there is a movement of the yields, I don't think there is going to be any significant impact on the MTM.

We also have, as Ashutosh is mentioning, an opportunity to, as you mentioned, participate in the OMOs, participate in the buybacks, and even do the trading. If you see, I think the trading profits have been robust for the last two quarters.

That process will continue.

LCR?

Anything unanswered remain?

Rana Ashutosh

Kumar Singh (Managing

Director, International Banking, Global Markets & Technology): LCR is 1.2 to 1.3. That is the numbers mostly.

125.

1.25. Rana Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Managing Director, International Banking, Global Markets & Technology):

125. 125?

Rana Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Managing Director, International Banking, Global Markets & Technology):

Yes.

The third question was on the miscellaneous fee income line item.

Miscellaneous fee income, I think miscellaneous fee income is a very diversified income streams. If you really have to put, I think some of the major ones is cash management services what we provide, and also the mobile banking charges which we collect, account maintenance charges for non-savings bank customers, annual inspection charges, and host of other charges.

It is all diversified income streams. We also adjusted for the GST payment which happens, so that is a net figure which is shown here.

Thank you for answering my questions.

Yeah. Hi sir, Kunal over here from Citi Group.

Firstly, when you look at it overall in terms of the growth traction, how are we seeing the catch-up on the PSL side, particularly on SMF as well as weaker section? Because at this pace of growth, do we see some shortfall coming through towards the end of the year, and that might have a drag in terms of investments on RIDF?

What are the initiatives being taken if we grow at 14%, 15%? Is that pace catching up?

Secondly, on CA, when you look at it, particularly there has been a decline during the quarter on a sequential basis. No doubt we are at double digit, we were growing at 18-odd percent as well.

Is it more of a quarter-end phenomenon, and maybe how do we see, because I think for most of the players, we have seen CA picking up on the private side. Is there some loss in market share which is happening on the CA front?

Yeah.

I'll take these two questions and come back, because they are very two important questions which you asked. I want to answer them.

The current account, we are predominantly seeing on the private side, despite actually the significant decline on the government business is virtually drying up on the government current account. In the last 1 to 2 years, we focused completely on the private side, business accounts, and that has given us current account uptick.

Current account also is not a quarter-end or month-end phenomenon. We monitor in terms of the daily average balance to a quarter-end number, and it is very robust.

It is more than 80%, 85%, which means that your daily average balances are holding up. Obviously, there will be a month-end and quarter-end movement, which is unavoidable.

We are very comfortable in terms of this ratio that daily average balance to quarter-end balance. The other one is in terms of PSL.

PSL, as we grow the book, PSL pressure will come. We have been addressing that in various forms.

One is the organic growth. PSL targets are given to every business segment, including the corporates.

We know that we do a lot of on-lending to a lot of NBFCs where they qualify for PSL, and the clear monitoring. In fact, what we suggested that if an NBFC MFI is there or NBFC is there which has got a PSL-only funding which is from us, we are willing to give some discount on our rate, which means that we would like to prevent the bleeding on the PSLC side, and we are broadly able to do that.

The subsegments which you mentioned definitely are the concerns for everyone, the small and marginal farmers, and because the whole portfolio is very small, and our requirement is 7.5% of the overall portfolio, I think it is creating an imbalance. We also don't want to aggressively push up the PSLC purchases so that year-end PSLCs will push up the premium.

What we have done is that we have front-loaded our PSLC purchases in the Q2 itself. We virtually have not moved to PSLC market in Q3 at all.

We do a lot of things in terms of reducing the PSLC PSL burden. Hopefully, I think the new guidelines, there are some positives in the guidelines.

We are just evaluating how the PSL movement will happen in our book.

The reason was, as you mentioned, when Chintan was also checking on overall LDR expansion, but not improvement in margins, which you mentioned is because of working capital drawdown as well as corporate, which is low-yielding. Then is it maybe do we factor in the cost of PSL which is there at the time of doing that business?

Because both these segments have grown quite robustly, SME is up 10% quarter-on-quarter, corporate is up 8% quarter-on-quarter.

Much of the SME growth is in the qualifying PSL category. That's not a big worry.

MSME growth is not a worry. I think, on the corporate credit growth, we definitely consider various cost factors.

While we do primarily look at the risk involved and how do we price the risk, we also look at our cost of funds and what is the alternate mechanism of investing those funds. We have a simple mechanism called risk-adjusted return on capital, I think we did mention earlier also.

The capital optimization is also core to our pricing strategy. The PSL cost many a time is worked out on the portfolio basis, not on the individual account basis.

Those costs are definitely accounted for.

One last question: no plans to tweak MCLR from the current level now? We'll hold on to our MCLR rates?

No,

no. MCLR is an arithmetical calculation.

As long as the cost of deposits remain at that level, I don't think MCLR—

Given that incrementally we are not tweaking cost of deposits in any bucket,

We are not.

Then we should consider MCLR will remain at same level.

Yeah. At this juncture, neither we are considering any tweaking on the deposits.

ALCO will take the call, but I don't think any MCLR movement is likely to happen in near term.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

I'm audible, right?

Yes.

Jeet Suchak here from Ambit Capital. Couple of questions.

On the employee's provisions, it's 25% and 32% lower Q-o-Q and Y-o-Y. What's reason on that, and any calculations on new labor code that will be affecting us?

We did the assessment of the new labor code. There's no noticeable impact because our wage structure is broadly aligned with the labor codes.

That means no impact, except that there is a requirement of providing for gratuity of contractual employees who have completed 1 year. Earlier it was 5 years, it's been reduced to 1 year.

The net impact is only ₹16 crore provision which we had to make. I think we are broadly in alignment with labor codes, but we are also looking for the rules, regulations to come, and if any assessment is required to be done, we'll do.

I don't think there is going to be any impact on the labor codes. The first thing you asked in terms of provisions, essentially the provisions have come down on the staff expenses, provision for pension.

These provisions are based purely on the actuarial assessment, and the discount rates have moved up, which means that the requirement of provision has come down.

Run rate will be in the similar lines of Q3? It's around 3—

Q4 you mean? Q4, I think run rate should be similar.

Going forward also, this should be the run rate?

Next year we will assess, because this actuarial assessment happens every quarter.

It's not a one-off, it's a actual—

There's nothing unusual movement in that provisioning.

Okay. On the second, how much of the 100 basis point rate cut that previously have happened has been translated in the yields?

How much is the left on that side? What's the current MCLR book, and how do you see the repricing of latest 25 basis points that will happen in our yields?

You asked so many things together. Please.

MCLR book— See, we have, if you divide the whole book, we have 50% MCLR and fixed rate, and 50% EBLR and other benchmark rates. That means around 45% to 48% book is floating, the rest is not really floating, MCLR or fixed rate.

Full repricing of the 100 basis point is done, we can assume that?

100 basis point or

last 100 basis point and the latest December—

EBLR book anyway the complete 125 basis point has been passed on.

On MCLR, is there any—

MCLR could be I don't know, I don't have the number. We'll give you that number.

Latest the 25 basis point rate cut, how do you see yields affecting going forward Q4 and FY 2027?

Previous rate cut?

Yeah, 25 December with a—

December rate cut, I think it will take some time to transmit in the deposits, but we have not cut the deposit rates—

No, I mean on the yield side only.

Sorry?

On the yield side only, yield on an asset.

Yield side, I think is about ₹800 crore or something on the overall full-year basis. Margins, I think, 1 basis point or something what we have worked out.

Trajectory, anything of 25 basis point, if you can share thoughts?

Sorry, I didn't get your question.

I'll get back in line.

Okay.

Hi, sir. Nitin Aggarwal from Motilal.

Yes, Nitin.

Congrats on a strong quarter. Sir, my question is again around the cost.

If you look at last two quarters, we have been reporting very controlled cost growth. The opex this quarter is a slight decline.

We are now talking to further raise the loan growth guidance. How do you see the cost-income ratio to play out over the next 2, 3 years?

The growth, credit growth is not substantially going to enhance the cost or the operating cost at least. Maybe the interest cost, we would like to manage the interest cost, as I mentioned, in terms of moderating the cost of deposits, focusing on the CASA.

Our objective is to keep the cost-to-income ratio below 50. I think that guidance we had earlier given, we're sticking to that guidance.

Right, sir. Second is on the ROA, wherein we have talked about to maintain 1% ROA guidance.

Now that if I look at 9 months, we are tracking higher than that. Will you want to review that, and any further levers if you want to highlight which can take ROA higher in the coming years?

I think we'll still stick to that 1% guidance. I don't want to jump the gun at this juncture.

It's playing out well, and we also are mindful of our RWA density. I think this is something which we are very conscious about that, which means that you can't have a jump in the ROA.

We want to be consistent on the ROA front. I think the guidance will remain at 1%.

What is the other one you asked? No,

just any levers, I think—

No, there are quite a few levers, but I think the levers point out that we will maintain this 1% guidance through the cycles. I think that's very important.

We are not giving the guidance only for one quarter or one year. We said our guidance is 1% ROA through the cycles.

Right, sir. Thank you so much.

Hi, sir. Sir, here.

Yeah.

Sir, Pritesh here from DAM Capital. Sir, one question on private capex.

Last time you had made a comment that it is improving, and with some of the corporate growth revival, do you think it will further pick up, and what is our pipeline in terms of corporate book ahead?

I'll ask Ashwini to answer.

The pipeline is ₹7,86,000 crore with a sanctioned but not disbursed about 4.4 lakh crore, and the pure without sanction pipeline, 3.45. That's the total undisbursed plus pipeline.

Pure pipeline is 3.45 lakh crore. In terms of growth in the corporate side, yes, you're right.

We are seeing pick-ups. The two new things which will help us next year, one is the announcement by RBI on REITs.

That's a market so far we were not allowed to. That's a large market and growing fast.

We hope to develop something there. Also M&A, the guidelines finally when they come, we'll hope to start doing that as well.

Those two will help us to give us more basis to increase the corporate book and in a better margins, because both these segments are better paying than some of the other segments. We're also seeing other pick-up happening in the corporate side, especially in power, including renewables, metals, and also infrastructure.

Yeah. Sure.

Due to paucity of time, we will now take up a few questions coming in through the online webcast, which will be addressed by the Chairman sir.

This first question is Bunty Chawla: loan growth guidance for FY 2027? FY 2027, we said that we'll give the guidance somewhere in Q1.

For the current quarter, I think we have revised our credit growth guidance from 12% to 14% to 13% to 15%. Kanika: do you see credit growth sustaining with such wide credit-deposit growth gap?

I think we have had a long discussion on the credit growth, and we do not see, as I mentioned, any challenge, and we have adequate liquidity buffers as well as capital buffers in our book. Credit growth outlook, Akhilesh Gupta: the credit growth for the bank for Q3, 15.14%, and as I mentioned, we have revised the earlier guidance from 12% to 14% to 13.15% 13% to 15%.

Outlook on NIM, I think is broadly addressed. We are still sticking to our exit NIM of 3% for the year, and 3% through the cycles.

Karthik: what would be the guidance for ROA? I think that again we have answered, 1% through the cycles.

In which area business do we have earned more? I believe we have earned everywhere, I suppose.

I think some of the lines of business are more profitable, like Xpress Credit, the portfolio of 3.5 lakh crore definitely gives us yield pick-up. I also mentioned in terms of the ecosystem improvement in the corporate banking side, which is also contributing to the income levels, and one-off which we did mention is in terms of the dividend payout from the SBI Mutual Fund.

Sangeeta: could you give color on the other income, which element showed growth and is it sustainable? I think other income, fee income, treasury, forex, all have shown growth.

CVE income, that is customer value enhancement income, also had shown significant growth, and we believe that that is sustainable. Lavish: what are the components in miscellaneous income?

I think we have answered this miscellaneous income segment. You're talking about 5,000 crore.

I think in this, there's a 2,200 crore from the mutual fund and recovery from written-off accounts about 2,600 crore. These are the two major elements in the miscellaneous income.

What were the interest on IT refund during the quarter? I think that was answered by our DMD Finance.

It is ₹769 crore Q3 and ₹40 crore in the previous quarter. Kiran Shah: what is the yield on gold loan portfolio, its ticket size, average LTV at origination and in 2025, December 2025?

Yield on personal gold loan portfolio as on 31st December is 8.61% with average ticket size of 2.64 lakhs. LTV, I did mention that it is 56.57% in December 2024, which has come down to 51.18% in December 2025.

Vishal Gupta: GNPA and NNPA ratios have improved further this quarter. Which segments are driving this improvement?

I think overall improvement in all the segments is driven. Of course, corporate has no asset quality issues.

Corporate NPA has gone down by ₹1,888 crore. Foreign offices also have shown decline in the NPAs.

Param: can you give a breakup of AUCA pool between retail, agriculture, and MSME? SME is 34,000, agriculture is 7, retail is 7,000, and corporate is 1.10 lakh crore.

Rohit: what has been the impact of the new labor codes? I think we did make a mention on the labor code impact.

It is not significant at all. It is just about ₹16 crore provision we had to make to comply with the norms.

M.B. Mahesh: could you walk us through what is the total gold loans in retail, SME, and agriculture?

SME, we do not have much of portfolio. Agri gold loan is 1.44 lakh crore, and personal gold loan is 86,000 crore.

Thank you.

I trust all the questions have been addressed. We'll be happy to respond to other questions in offline mode.

Let me end the evening with thanking Chairman sir, MD sirs, DMD sir, top management team, senior officials of the circles, and various offices connected through webcast, analysts, investors, ladies and gentlemen. We thank you all for taking time out of your schedule and joining us for the event.

To round off this evening, we request you all present here to join us for high tea, which is arranged just outside this hall. Thank you.

Thank you so much.