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Private sector lender ICICI Bank on Thursday said it expects over 20 per cent growth in loans in the next fiscal against 18 per cent in 2010-11.
”...it (credit growth) would be upward of 20 per cent,” ICICI Bank Managing Director Ms Chanda Kochhar told reporters on the sidelines of an interactive session organised by industry body CII here.
She also said that the overall credit offtake in the country is likely to be over 20 per cent in the next financial year.
“We are seeing a strong credit growth which is universal across the segment so it would be upward of 20 per cent,” she said.
Credit offtake from public and private sector banks in the country grew by over 24 per cent to Rs 38.98 lakh crore for the one-year period ended February 11, 2011, as against Rs 31.43 lakh crore in the corresponding period a year ago.
RBI, in its annual monetary policy at the beginning of the current fiscal, had estimated credit offtake to grow by 20 per cent in 2010-11.
Loan offtake has been higher this fiscal on account of large borrowings by telecom firms to pay for 3G spectrum licences.
Participating in the interactive session, also attended by Lael Brainard, Under Secretary in US Department of Treasury, Ms Kochhar said India and the US should increase bilateral economic cooperation.
She also asked the US authorities to allow more Indian banks in America so that they could play “larger role” there.
Brainard said the US is an open market and welcomes participation of foreign financial institutions.
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