Yes, the partnership of Bank with SMBC increases confidence, cites capital and hints on a potential rating upgrade. | Photocredit: Reuters
The decision of the Japanese lender SMBC to buy nearly 25 percent interest in Yes Bank must be seen as a voice of trust and also creates “possibilities” of a rating upgrade, a senior official at the creditor of the private sector.
The nearly £ 16,000-crore bets of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) is strategic from an investor of global reputation and it will help improve YES Bank’s assets to attract capital, to stimulate business growth by increasing network connections and profitability, the official said.
“(With) the benefit … In terms of having a strategic investor, the ability to attract capital is someone who is willing (money) … The possibility of our rating upgrade is there,” the managing director and Chief Executive Prashant Kumar from Ja Bank told PTI in an interview here.
Kumar, a career SBI director who was hurried in March 2020 to help the recovery of the private bank, said that the rating of YES Bank has improved to ‘Aa’ now of ‘D’ earlier.
Kumar responded to the Jes Bank trip in the past five years and said: “A bank that was close to has not only survived, but is also doing very well and able to get one of the very large foreign investments.” An alleged promoter Malfeasance, who resulted in the arrest of one of Kumar’s predecessors Rana Kapoor, had led to enormous problems for Yes Bank, including questions about the actual extent of non-performing loans that were in the balance sheet, continuous losses and an inability to attract capital.
In March 2020, weeks before the start of the COVID crisis, the RBI and the government organized a rescue law in which banks led by SBI took a 79 percent interest in YES Bank and help to float. Kumar, who then served the Chief Financial Officer of the largest lender in the country, was given the management of the effort.
Kumar said that a rating -upgrade will help the bank get deposits or liabilities from large companies, institutional investors and also government entities, led by certain rating profiles.
The bank remains regular contact of rating agencies, he said, apart from giving a timeline over when it sees a rating upgrade coming.
SBI remains an important shareholder of the bank with more than 10 percent ownership, which gives further confidence from a capital story perspective, Kumar said, adding that the bank has now been sufficiently capitalized.
Answering a specific question about the lack of sufficient appreciation in the stock price, Kumar asked the investor community to be patient.
“Investor must have some patience. They must see where this bank started, you cannot compare with a bank that has not been brought to that kind of punishment,” he added.
The purchase of the Ring of SMBC Die 24.2 percent has picked up against two administrative seat-olines also to help open doors for Yes Bank to get fees based on companies that have borrowed from the Japanese lender, and also the smaller companies that form the Supply Chain for the loan entity, Kumar said.
To a question about what changes from an operational perspective and the company is now changing to diversity, Kumar did not offer a specific answer.
“In the future, especially with their (SMBC) involvement, the whole plate could be and we will see how we can increase our business prospects and profitability. But there are no specific questions,” said Kumar.
Kumar, whose current term ends in April next year, refused to comment whether he will be available in the future for Yes Bank or whether there has been a conversation with SMBC about this.
He said that the bank is on his way to reach her indicated target to leave FY27 with an assets of 1 percent return, an increase of 0.8 percent at the moment, and added that the same number was not that long .3 percent.
More than the growth of the loan book – which is now picking up – the bank will concentrate on profitability, Kumar said, adding that it will focus on lending in segments that deliver broader net interest rate margins, such as used car finance and affordable loans.
The net interest rate margins are expected to reach a trough in the current quarter of September, but will rise from the second quarter, Kumar said, the confidence that it will leave FY26 with a NIM of 2.7 percent.
When demanding worries about small business loans, Kumar said that the bank sees no reversations in the book.
Published on September 21, 2025
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