Thank you, Iqra. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Q3 FY26 results conference call of SBFC Finance Limited.

I would like to thank the management for giving us the opportunity to host their call. We have from the senior management Mr.

Aseem Dhru, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Mahesh Dayani, Executive Director; Mr.

Narayan Barasia, Chief Financial Officer; Mr. Sanket Agrawal, Chief Strategy Officer; and Mr.

Rajiv Thakkar, Chief Risk Officer. For the call, we will have an opening remarks from the MD, sir, post which we will open the floor for questions.

Now, without much ado, I will transfer over the call to MD, sir. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Thank you, Chintan. Good afternoon to everyone, and I'm sorry, I have a bad throat, I may sound even worse than usual.

On the horizon, I see the following four things play out. One, Ben Bernanke had said, and now all countries across the world have been spraying money from helicopters.

The central banks are finding the link between their interest rate and market interest rates broken. US and India, if you see what's happening is that 125 basis point reduction in repo happened, and the G-sec yields have firmed up by 50 basis points.

US also the same thing is happening. Now next year, it looks like the Indian government, between the state and center, will have to borrow over ₹30 trillion on G-secs.

Considering all of this, I see that next year the interest rates may actually beginning to harden more than soften that we are seeing right now. There is a change in season that I see playing out ahead.

Banks also still haven't passed on their rates. If you look at nationalized banks, that their MCLR has come down by not more than about 30 basis points.

While repo has gone down, the transmission of this interest rates down the line is not happening. They also have their own constraints on the fight on deposits.

RBI has its own challenge in terms of managing the velocity of currency. We will, continuously this year, see the circus of defending the rupee fall, sucking out rupee liquidity, and then injecting that through market instruments, injecting the liquidity back.

This will ensure that the rate of interest this year is likely to either remain same or harden and unlikely to soften going forward. Second, the latest Financial Stability Report of RBI has some concerns flagged.

Household debt is increasing at double the rate of financial asset creation. Between 2019 and '25, the report says that the household debt doubled to ₹15.7 trillion while the asset additions dropped from 12% to 10.8% of GDP, even as liability went up from 3.9% to 4.7% of GDP.

Now if you look at end use, because ultimately that's what it is, that if generally retail money is going towards home loans, that is a good place for it to go. That is positive.

Unfortunately, what is happening in India is that 46% of the money is actually going towards end use consumption is 46%. No asset is getting created for 46% of money.

Half the loans that people are taking are, in a sense, fiscal deficit of their own that they're financing. If you look at asset creation, about 36% of the loan goes towards that.

For productive purposes, which includes things like agriculture, business, and education, etc., is about 18%. We are seeing weakening individual balance sheet.

This means that loan growth will slow next year. The third thing, which is the positive thing, is that the year before, stock markets did very well, wealth effect was felt by the rich.

This time gold has done brilliantly. First time there is a wealth effect that is at the bottom of the pyramid being felt.

We have about 35,000 tons of gold. Effectively, what is happening is that the value of this is beating our stock market handsomely.

There is a wealth effect that is playing out at the bottom of the pyramid, which is a very positive factor. The fourth positive factor is that oil is likely to remain well-behaved, and that's a good tailwind for India generally.

It takes a lot to keep something boringly consistent, especially when everything around us keeps moving, and we have to move the boat steady and headed in the right direction at the right speed, despite all the crosswinds and currents that we meet. I am happy to report one more nothing-to-report quarter at SBFC.

I would like to take you back to our JFM of last year where we had said that Karnataka ordinance has disturbed our steady portfolio. If you remember the last April call, we had said that the damage of a quarter takes three quarters to repair and another three to four quarters to restore.

We are now three quarters down since the damage, and we are seeing that the flow is now contained, but it'll still take more quarters to start pulling back to earlier levels. We continue to guide caution.

There is no change in our stance that we have declared so far. We are on track to end this fiscal year FY26 with an AUM growth of 5% to 7% quarter-on-quarter, a 50 basis points reduction in operating cost, and a credit cost where it is right now, with a 5, 10 basis point variation that can happen.

Now, to end this commentary right now, there is never a right time to do anything, but sometimes you feel it is that time. You feel it.

It is a season of change at SBFC where I handover the baton to Mahesh Dayani. It is also a season of continuity as I move into the role as a Non-Executive Vice Chairman.

I hope I can continue to add value to SBFC as a coach from being a player. Thank you so much, and with this I hand over the call to Narayan, who will take us through the numbers.

Thank you, Aseem. Hi, good evening, everyone.

The AUM as of 31st December '25 is at ₹10,478 crore, with a growth of 29% on a YoY basis and 5% on a QoQ basis, with almost 100% of our book secured by properties and gold. The MSME AUM is ₹8,497 crore, which is almost 81% of our total AUM, which has grown by 25% on a YoY and 4% on a QoQ basis.

The loan against gold is ₹1,954 crore, is 19% of our total AUM, have grown by 48% on a YoY basis and 14% on a QoQ basis. We have added 10 branches during this quarter, with the total branch count at 230 as of December 2025.

The yields for the quarter is at 17.78%, with a reduction of 23 basis point on QoQ basis and 3 basis point on YoY basis. The cost of borrowing is at 8.74% for the quarter, with a reduction of 22 basis point on a QoQ basis and 57 basis point on a YoY basis.

Consequently, the spread for the quarter is 9.04%, which is at the same level on a QoQ basis and has improved by 54 basis point on YoY basis. The opex continued to improve due to enhanced operating leverage, in spite of our consistent investment in our branch network.

The GNPA is range-bound at 2.71%, with PCR at 46.2%, with a credit cost of 1.29% for the quarter. The capital adequacy ratio is sufficient at 31.7%, with a tangible net worth of ₹3,306 crore as of December '25.

The return on average AUM for the quarter is at 4.67%, with return on average tangible equity further improving from 14.09% in Q2 to 14.56% in Q3. The PAT of ₹118 crore for the quarter, thereby reporting a growth of 34% on a YoY and 8% on a QoQ basis.

With this, we open the floor for question-and-answers.

Hi. Thanks for the opportunity, and congrats on the numbers.

I have two questions. One, why have the disbursement volumes declined?

See, first I would have assumed that it's because of higher stress, and then when I look at the absolute slippage number or even the GNPA numbers, the stress situation seems to be largely stable, no major spike. Early buckets are also stable.

If stress formation is stable, is it competition which has impacted the disbursement volume? Just wanted some color there, and then I have another question.

Hi. This is Mahesh here.

I think on a lighter note to begin, I think it's important to review your past stupidities so that you're less likely to repeat them. I think quarter three, when we got into quarter three, the outlook way back then wasn't too great, and I think we had called out a little early that this quarter, or quarter three, is going to be a lot more cautious.

Even while we are speaking, the color of the portfolio quality, South in particular, if you look up the bureau scores, are yet to be steady. They're still flashing amber, and they're still not green.

West and North markets comparatively are a lot better. Most of the impact that actually happened with respect to our disbursement growth came in from the Southern and the Eastern markets.

What we did was that we had tightened our filters with respect to bureau scores and also paused some disbursement in some of our key markets, and that's where the big impact is. As you rightly mentioned, that November, December seems to be a lot better than probably what we thought, and the numbers for November, December seem to be encouraging, and we're looking at quarter four to get our disbursements back.

As Aseem articulated in his opening remark, our mood is still very cautious because the bureau numbers are still flashing amber and it's not green as yet.

Understood. Sir, see, your employee base has also been coming down, right?

I would assume that that's largely because your outlook has been a little cautious with respect to generating business or doing disbursements. Once you get the confidence on disbursements and on growing the business, is it fair to assume that your employee hiring will also step up?

Yeah. If you look at our employee count, our employee count hasn't dropped.

Our employee count over the last quarter, in fact, has gone up. The comforting factor is that my distribution and my people are there.

The outcome with respect to the disbursement momentum is more internal that we've done it on ourselves. As the market tends to improve and as the outlook tends to improve, getting back to the disbursements is not going to be a challenge.

Just to give you a sense that last year, if you probably just go beyond a quarter, for last year, our disbursements were close to around ₹2,600-odd crore. In the first three quarters, even if I were to add the current run rate, we'll be comfortably at between 3,000 to ₹3,100-odd crore.

Our disbursement run rate will always be at between 18% to 20-odd percent. I don't think we are too bogged down with the momentum for quarter three because quarter three was more conscious of stabilizing our flows, and I think that's what we kept reiterating.

Looking at the quarter three numbers, we're in a lot more confident position, both on our 0+ and our 90+. It gives us the confidence to speak out that quarter four is going to be significantly better in terms of momentum compared to quarter three.

Understood. My bad, I stand corrected, your employee number has gone up in 3Q.

Sorry for misreading that. The other question that I have is that your Chief Collections Officer has also resigned.

Can you give me some color on who will step into his place and steer this collections ship? Also, can you give me some color on the team strength and maybe the hierarchy in the collections vertical, from which we can draw some comfort that, despite this resignation, the collections will not be impacted?

No, see, it's a slightly largish collection setup that we have all through, both for early buckets, as well as matured and N-PA buckets. There are about 550-plus people in collections team on the ground.

The new collection officer will be joining by the end of March. In first week of April, he should be there.

Down the line, because we have a matrix structure, there's a zonal head, there's a regional heads, there's a full setup below. We don't anticipate any disturbance because of that.

We wish him all the very best. He's been with us for a good period of time.

He's seen the entire COVID period, etc. He's done a good job with us, and we wish him the very best for his next move.

For SBFC, it'll be business as usual.

Sure. Thank you.

That's all from my side.

Thanks for the opportunity. Sir, first question is on ARC sale.

I noticed that we have done some ARC sale in this quarter. Is it in gold or SME business?

This is on MSME business.

Our 1 DPD also number gets deflated because of ARC sale, right, or?

The asset which is sold to ARCs are NPA. Yes, since 1+ also includes NPA to that extent, yes, what you're saying is right.

Sure. Secondly, can you quantify the impact of labor code?

I noticed that our opex has reduced in absolute numbers on a QoQ basis. What is driving that, and are there any one-offs in opex?

The impact because of the new wage code is ₹2.24 crore for this quarter. That's a one-time impact.

Obviously, there were some excess provisions which no longer required, and so those were reversed. It is just a routine expenditure reversal, no one-time in a way, but obviously, a routine expenditure which we thought will be there, which no longer was required.

See, as we are seeing the environment, ultimately we have to get efficient. Efficiency is of three things.

One is getting your cost of funds down, getting your cost of operations down, and getting your cost of credit down. In the current market environment, we believe that at this point in time, we won't be able to reduce our cost of credit immediately.

The first job was to contain it, which we have. The second thing is that efficiencies we brought in by both reducing the cost of funds, which we have, and the market environment has facilitated to some extent, and the cost of operations.

Now, we have been moving a lot of things to ensure that we deliver that 50 basis point reduction in operating cost. Mind you, we are adding branches all the time.

It is not that as an organization, we are matured, or we are pausing growth. In fact, this quarter we've added 10 branches.

We had a ₹2.3 crore extra provisioning because of the labor code, and despite that, we've been able to manage this deduction. Now it may be a one-time higher number, but that 50 basis point reduction through the year that we had promised, we should be able to deliver.

We are working on what we should do to bring it down further next year. Ultimately, it is just about ensuring that the company becomes efficient, uses technology better, automates things that it can, uses AI where it can, the agentic call centers, etc.

There are lots of measures being done in the company to ensure that the operating cost keeps coming down. We now have moved to a cost-to-income ratio of 35%.

This is slightly nice cost-to-income ratio to have, but we believe we can do a lot better than this. We will be squeezing cost, even as we are eking out faster growth.

Sure. Next year also we should expect 50 basis points cost to?

No, no, no. Next year we'll we'll

next year we'll guide in April, but it will not be so much, you know. We have delivered this three years, you know.

After IPO, this is the third year. We initially we had guided it for the year one, we extended it by year two, we extended it by year three, you know.

Now by the end of this year, we would have reduced it by 150 basis points. At 35% cost-to-income ratio, you would agree that we're not, inefficient, you know.

Yes, there is scope. We will, try to do better than this, but exact numbers we will guide when we do our strategic numbers by the end of this month.

We will we will guide you the numbers in April.

Sure. I also noticed that yield have declined by 20 basis points roughly sequentially.

Have we passed on the benefit of rate cut to the back book, or is it something else?

No, as of now, there's no rate reduction per se, but yes, we have cut down small ticket LAP, as Mahesh was explaining earlier, that we have increased the bureau scores, etc., etc. That is all leading to a slight drop in the yield at an overall level.

This is more like a hygiene. You don't want to take the riskier customer, and so the yield has slightly dropped.

Sure, sir. Last question is on the opening comments Aseem mentioned that household debt is increasing at the double the rate of financial assets.

How do you see this ending up, let's say, next 3, 5 years? Because if this rate continues, then and what we see that all the NBFCs and banks are rushing towards retail lending.

How do you see this ending up for our economy and for the sector?

It would be beyond my pay grade to comment on this, but what I can safely say is that the quality of applications we are getting we are not very happy with it. We actually said that, below 700 CIBIL, we don't even want to look at a case.

When we did that, our logins dropped. Now, logically, it should tell you that your approval rate should be better because you're not taking in cases that you shouldn't.

Even after that, our approval rate has continued to drop. When we look at the leverage of the customer, when we look at trade lines, when we look at the recent borrowing behavior, it tells you that the lenders have been a little fast and loose with the lending.

We will have to be careful and protect our interest in what is not a very comfortable market, and which is why I keep guiding that I'm not yet seeing comfort while we are at a place where all the numbers, including NPAs, across the system are looking at its possible lowest level. This kind of a sharp increase in debt usually leads to problems later.

Experience has taught us each time, and each time we believe that it'll be different this time. Unfortunately, stock market it may be, but in lending it never is.

Thank you, Aseem. That's it from my side.

Thank you.

Hi, sir. Good afternoon.

Sir, obviously, this quarter, when we look at the numbers, disbursements were a bit more contained. Should we read that the reduction in opex to assets is also to do with the fact that a lot of the variable payouts linked to disbursements automatically come down for us, even though AUM build-up continues?

To that extent, if you can help that, what part of the cost to asset reduction should be linked to more of variable costs coming down? The second point was on if you can help us with the gold loan branches and the gold loan employees.

Picking your first question, I think we have a 100% direct model. Clearly, there's very limited variable that is linked.

If the variable is linked with disbursement, then optically only it's going to come down, but it's a marginal impact. Coming back to and, in fact, the total headcount, has moved up in line with the number of branches that we've added.

Which gives us Your distribution is in place. Your staffing is in place.

We've consciously tried to tone down our momentum, and as and when we feel confident, we can get it back or we can ramp it back. Our guidance for an overall year-end number at ₹3,000 crore against 25, ₹2,600 crore holds.

That's just to calm the nerves on the disbursement for the full year compared to where we've ended on for the first nine months. With respect to our gold, our gold AUM per branch is close to around ₹10 crore now.

We are close ₹1,954 crore, almost close to ₹2,000 crore, and the number of gold branches is closer to 200. Sir,

the number of employees attributed to gold loan would be how much roughly?

We would have roughly around eight-odd employees per branch, so that's roughly around 1,800-odd employees.

Understood. Got it.

Sir, one last question was, not this quarter specifically, but if I took our average ticket size and the sort of disbursement per employee, roughly it comes at around two files a employee in terms of disbursement productivity. Now, if you look at the business in general and all the efforts on automation, etc., is this too right now limited because of the fact of the quality of files which we are getting?

Or practically, how should we look at this tool number improving over time? Because I think our cost to assets reduction journey is also now at a very optimal level.

From here on, unless we improve the disbursement productivity, our loan growth will gradually start gravitating towards the disbursement growth number.

Yeah. Right points.

I think our count is not two, the count is more leaning towards 1.5, and that's largely because the login-to-disbursal ratio has come off and that percentage has dropped by almost 5% to 6-odd percent before we entered this financial year. This also goes on to show that, despite a higher bureau score, the rejections are still high, which effectively means that the leverage at an individual level or at a business level seems to be elevated, and hence, the conversions are not as high as what they used to be last year.

That's one. Second, as you rightly mentioned, obviously, we need to be efficient with respect to our logins and ensuring the e-signs which happen with respect to documentation, which shaves off a significant time and effort, and is going to ensure that the front-end probably is able to deliver a lot more.

That is subject to the kind of filters that we apply and the kind of eligible customer base that comes through, or the position of leverage improves moving forward. If you look at it, our entire ecosystem that we've created right from staffing of the distribution to making the front-end enable a customer onboarding through an entire digital journey is in place.

As we move along, I think we have the capability to improve from here, subject to, obviously, the ecosystem also being supportive and improving.

Got it. Sir.

Perfect. Thanks a lot.

Thank you.

Good afternoon to the team. I have just one question.

With strong capital adequacy and steady cash flow, how do you plan to sustain net interest margins while managing funding costs and credit risk? From a financial process point of view, how will you structure liability diversification, working capital cycle, and hedging mechanisms to ensure ROE remains strong and balance sheet continues to grow in the coming quarters?

Thank you.

Coming to your first question on NIM, so as the leverage increases in our business, NIM obviously tends to go down, right? I think the most important element here is to look at the spread.

If you look at the spread over the last three years or four years, when the market interest rates were going up and the interest rates now coming off, we have been able to continuously look at a superior spread while also making sure that we are able to manage the credit cost. I think what is important from our point of view is to ensure that we maintain the spread as we go along into the future and we tighten the belt wherever we are able to, from a credit quality perspective.

Coming to your second question on ROE, opex, as you have seen over the last three years, opex has improved, and we further would like to continuously look at it and see whether operating leverages can further be improved. ROEs from here, we have now achieved a 14.5% ROE.

The first milestone is to achieve a 15% ROE. While we maintain spread with the improved leverage and slightly better opex, ROEs should actually go up from here.

The last question which you have is on the debt and the mix. The mix has always been improving.

Our bank borrowing total is about 50% or so. We have increased our borrowing from NCD market.

We have already done that. We have DFIs now.

We have now signed with two DFIs over the last year. Gradually, we are moving towards much diversified portfolio.

We have now raised money from ECB market. Diversification is going to be key.

As we scale from here, we will actually look at diversifying into much more new sources as we go along in future. Our debt-equity is still very low.

It is around two. Capital adequacy is pretty high.

Raising debt is not a problem. Liquidity is abundant and quite available.

Diversification, yes, will be the course of action as we go along.

Thank you. Best of luck for the next quarter.

Thank you.

Thanks for the opportunity. I had a couple of questions.

The first one is on do we target any AUM mix for our gold loan business? Because the mix of gold loans has gone up by 200 bps, and I just wanted to know is that leading to the operating efficiency that we are seeing in our opex to AUM?

If you were to probably look back a couple of quarters, you would have seen probably 83-odd percent, 17%, and 1%. The 1% was largely unsecured, which was a legacy book which we had discontinued, so that obviously has moved in favor of gold.

Gold traditionally has actually been an high opex business. In fact, contrary to the belief that it would have been accretive on the opex side.

Yes, this quarter, because of the gold price support, you've seen a gold AUM increase in line with most of the peers who have reported those numbers. One is, obviously, it's profitable, yields are looking good, and costs as such are in line.

I think a lot of our existing ME branches, which did not have gold, have also started doing gold now. There is some bit of saving there, which is coming to our advantage.

I think the gold trajectory will continue to build in from here. If you look at two, three parameters, we're at ₹10 crore per branch.

If you look at mid-sized companies who have probably 500, 600-odd branches, you would have an AUM of anything between 13 to ₹14 crore per branch. Even on our existing distribution, if we probably didn't have to add any further branches, you could see an upside of 30% plus.

That's the efficiency that we'll kick in with our existing distribution on gold.

Sir. Thank you.

Hi. Thank you for the opportunity.

I hope I'm audible. My first question is on the asset quality trend.

I want to understand your provision coverage for Stage 3, on YoY basis it's been up. Sequentially, it's been flat.

Can you help me understand there is any management overlay that we've built into, or is it purely a mathematical number that the model throws up? My second question is on the login details that you gave that you are seeing even in a profile with a higher than 700 CIBIL there is overleveraging, and probably more loans which are not towards asset-creating activities.

Is that an implication that probably more personal loan, where the end use is not defined, is visible to you in the kind of files that you're receiving? Also, is it in certain categories of your customer, because your customers are all MSME borrowers, is it more amongst the trading community or the servicing community, where you see a higher chunk of personal loan maybe?

I'm just guessing that. Or any color around that if you can share with us.

Thank you.

Coming to your first question on PCR and whether the management overlay increases the PCR. Management overlay has been made on Stage 2 assets, it not been made on Stage 3 assets.

To that extent, the management overlay, whatever we have made, has not increased the PCR. PCR generally got increased, looking at the way the portfolio is moving, etc., the PCR numbers are improving.

That's all it is. We have not made any special provision so far as PCR is concerned.

On your second question, see, yeah, most of our customers would be small-time traders. The thing is that most of these customers' end use would be towards the working capital.

Now, when Aseem was talking about the consumption, he was talking about overall as a economy and the numbers which is published by report. Our customers, most of the end use which we come across while the personal discussion is towards the business and working capital, apart from the BTs, which is around 15-odd percent of our book, where the loans are taken over.

Of course, there is apart from that 15%, there is also a part where we fund customers for taking over loans. Not much of our customers post our loans would have significant unsecured borrowing per se.

Some of the things which now, because of this increased indebtedness, what we are also done is that we have tightened some of the filters in some of the ticket sizes, which are high risk from FOIR perspective, so as to curtail the lending which we do to these customers.

Sure. Just a follow-up over there.

You mentioned that most of your customers, after your loan, may not be taking a lot of unsecured. Your collection team probably is checking the CIBIL score.

That must be a part of your business process, right, on regular basis to manage the outlook that you're sharing, right?

Not collection team per se, but at the risk level, we keep on tracking our customers on a intervals, where we see their behavior. Specifically, customers which are borrowing outside and are delinquent, these are the risk angles which we look at on a periodic basis.

Okay. Sir, this was quite- Yeah.

Also from the foreclosure requests coming in, we rate these customers as a red flag so that when the foreclosure requests come or an enhancement request comes, these are flagged so that we don't enhance these customers.

Sure, sir. That's very useful.

Thank you for sharing, and all the best.

Thank you. Thank you.

Hi, this is Nischint from Kotak Securities. Thanks for taking my question.

I just wanted to ask Aseem if he'll be associated with SBFC in specific role a year or two after.

Yeah. Nischint, the thinking is this that, while building the business out has its own pressure points and its own immediate deliverables.

I think somewhere the culture of the company, we can do a lot better than what we have done. I want to focus now some time building on that part, and also whatever I was doing in terms of ensuring governance, risk control, compliances, and etc., all those roles also I would be handing over.

The intention is that the biggest challenge for any CEO is succession, and that is where a lot of CEOs, even much better and much greater CEOs have struggled with post their departure. The real test of my innings will be 1 year from today.

The idea is to ensure that without any hiccup the entire transition happens. To the best of what I can, I would be hoping to contribute to SBFC in the role now as a Non-Executive Vice Chairman.

On a lighter note, salary stops, but work doesn't.

No doubt the team will continue to do as well. Thank you very much, and all the best.

Thank you.

Yeah. Sir, can you hear me?

Yeah.

Hello? Yeah.

Sir, one clarification question from my side. Sir, you mentioned our gold loan mix can go up to 30% also?

Loan mix on what?

No, no, no. What we said is that the gold loan currently is 19, 20-odd percent, 19-odd percent, and we said that given the current spurt in terms of the gold prices and the resultant growth, you could see a couple of basis points moving up here and there, but not a 30, 70 ratio.

See, our guidance for gold loan has been that it will be under 20%. Continues to be that.

A few basis points here, there can happen. Now if gold rallies and doubles from here also, who knows?

That's not in our control. Even co-origination, we have said that it'll be about 20% of our origination, and that's what we have kept it at.

The intention is to keep it around 20%.

Okay. Sir, my second question-

Growth, see, was on the growth of gold.

Okay. What is the average ticket size in the SME segment this quarter?

₹10 lakh.

What's the average ticket size? ₹10 lakh.

My last question is how much customer our in the SME segment come from tier 2 and tier 3 segment?

I think almost most of them would be tier 2, tier 3. If I were to hazard a guess, it would be more than 85, 90%.

Yes,

tier 2 and tier 3. Okay.

Thank you, sir, and best of luck.

Thank you.

Yeah. I just had a question on growth.

In our earlier remarks, we mentioned that the leverage levels are relatively increasing and the household debt is increasing, but so not is the asset creation. In this context, how do we see our growth going ahead?

Will it be at the lower end of the guidance or probably even we could taper our growth further from there if there is some more leverage happening and if there is a situation of a relatively slow growth or a crisis or as such? No,

no, there is no crisis or bad situation. As I said in the opening of the call, we continue to guide that we will be in the same range.

5%, 7%, see, 1%, 2% here, there, too much shouldn't be read into it. So 5% to 7% quarter-on-quarter growth is what we continue to guide from what we're seeing right now.

If we see that the deal is differently, then we will let you know. At this moment, we maintain what we have been saying.

Sure, got it. In terms of our management team, are we now expecting any other addition at the CXO level in the management or no?

Yeah. Or so for Mr.

Mahesh's role?

No, there is internal, I mean there are internal, talents that we have, there. Some some, elevations, may happen within that.

Understood. Got it, yeah.

That is from my side. Thank you, and all the best, yeah.

Hello?

Hi. We can hear you.

Hello, sir. My question has already been answered.

Thank you.

Hi. Thanks for the opportunity.

Hope I'm audible, sir?

Yeah.

Yeah. Just wanted some perspective on the credit cost.

Credit cost, which has sort of increased given the environment, would it be possible for you to sort of give any outlook on credit cost for FY27? You expect credit cost to remain in the similar range?

At the moment, we're guiding for the next quarter, which is in the range of 5 to 10 basis point up or down. For the next financial year, we'll guide in the month of April.

By then, we'll also see the color on what is happening in the South book, etc. We'll have more knowledge.

We'll give you the entire year's guidance in the concall of April.

Okay. Perfect.

Thank you. That would be all from my side, and all the best, sir.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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