Earnings Call Transcript
HDFC BANK LTD (HDB)
Earnings Call Transcript - HDB Q3 2025
Operator, Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to HDFC Bank Limited Q3 FY 2025 Earnings Conference Call. As a reminder, all participant lines will be in the listen-only mode and there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. Please note that this conference is being recorded. I’ll now hand the conference over to Mr. Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, Chief Financial Officer, HDFC Bank. Thank you and over to Mr. Vaidyanathan.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. Thank you, Nirav. Good evening to all. Thanks for participating and coming in today. I will kick it off, and I will request our CEO Mr. Sashi Jagdishan to get started and give some opening remarks, then we will go straight to any questions that you all have. Sashi, over to you, please.
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
Thank you, Srini, and thank you all for joining on this call on a Wednesday evening. We just declared our results and, obviously, as you probably know much better than all of us put together, we are in the midst of a very challenging macro environment with tight liquidity conditions, signs of moderating urban demand, a tepid private capital expenditure programs, volatility and depreciation of the Indian rupee, capital outflows from equity and debt markets due to uncertainty around the new U.S. administration. However, we also see some drivers of growth or some positive signs as well. We are seeing some amount of rural demand picking up, the government spending is picking up after slow momentum in the first half of the year. We see continued strength in services exports and a gradual moderation in inflation. Coming to the Bank, we seem to be progressing well in our journey to normalize our credit deposit ratio with the deposit growth outpacing our loan growth. We’ve seen robust growth in our average deposits at about 16%, which continue to gain market share, and our assets under management (AUM) advances growth of 8% year-on-year basis. We’ve delivered strong deposit growth despite the challenging macro environment. On an average basis, I think we saw a very near neutral liquidity in quarter three with a peak negative of around INR 2 trillion to INR 2.5 trillion. NIMs have remained reasonably range-bound and stable, despite the headwinds from a tight liquidity leading to a tight pricing environment. We continue to add distribution, I think, over a year-on-year period, on a 12-month period, we’ve added about 1,000 branches. But, we’ve been able to maintain a very tight leash on the cost growth that’s grown 7% year-on-year, which means that we have gained some amount of productivity gains there. But the most important part, which is something that we’ve always maintained, is our credit USP. All our credit parameters, be it the slippages, be it the gross NPA, be it the credit costs, excluding some of the cyclical patterns in the agriculture sector have been reasonably resilient and stable, which is something that shows the strength of the institution not just now, but for a long time, that we have been in this business. Going into the future, we are robustly positioned. We have been growing in a balanced manner in line with what we had committed to ourselves and to the world at large in terms of the glide path on the credit deposit ratio or the kind of growth levels that we are anticipating. As we speak, we have sufficient liquidity. We continue to grow our deposits faster than the system. We have sufficient capital, allowing us to be very comfortable to grow or capture market shares in the loans when the macro turns. I know all of you would have a lot more questions, so let me pause here and let us take questions from all of you. Thank you.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Thank you, Sashi. We’ll get to it. Nirav, we can kindly open it up and we can go straight to questions, please.
Operator, Operator
Thank you very much. We will now begin with the question-and-answer session. The first question is from the line of Mahrukh Adajania from Nuvama Research. Please go ahead.
Mahrukh Adajania, Analyst
Yeah, hi. Congratulations. First of all, can you give as much color as possible on how you met PSL on HDFC’s book, because your operational expenditure does not seem to have increased, and there doesn’t seem to be much RIDF for previous shortfalls either. So just as much color as you could give on PSL? That’s the first question. And the second question, is that if you could separately call out the PCR, excluding agri loans, and if there was any tax refund in other interest income? These are my questions.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. Thank you, Mahrukh. First thing on the priority sector. Our priority sector last year or even as we see now, at the aggregate level, we meet the target, 40%-plus. The only area that we last year and as we see now, we see is that small and marginal farmer and the weaker section. There are dual qualifications between them, but that’s normally about some of the percentage points we always look for opportunities. Yes, between – there are several products that go for getting that. One is organically grow on balance sheet, the book, that’s one. We do IBPC to buy certain book or PTC’s investment book we buy. We also buy PSLC in the market. So it is not just operational expenditure. The cost of PSL is embedded within our overall return on assets structure now and in the past, and it can straddle across various lines. If you originate, you end up with certain credit costs that’s part of how you price it in. If you buy it, you get it in PSLC. If you buy it through investments, you’re getting it through the investment book or if you get it through a loan purchase, you get it through loans. So it can straddle everywhere. But yes, we do look for, we always do need to find that last percentage in the small and marginal farmers and agriculture is always been in the past elusive and as we see now, but we’re vehemently pursuing at the right price to get that. That’s part of the first question.
Mahrukh Adajania, Analyst
Sir, just one thing – sorry, one clarification. So this time round, there was not much PSLC. Is that a fair assumption?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
There’s not much. Yes, but the year is still not over. And so as the year progresses, we’ll have to see where it ends. Okay, the second aspect is the PCR that you touched upon. The overall PCR you can see is about 68%. And you know that the slippages were impacted by agri, which is the seasonal agri, excluding the seasonal agri, the slippages are flat period to period. And so, since they are in the early buckets, the PCR excluding-agri is at 71%, which is the same as what it was in the prior quarter. That’s the PCR. The third aspect of it is the tax refunds or whatever. Yeah, every quarter we get something. But this quarter is about INR 2 billion, last quarter was about INR 0.5 billion or something. And so every quarter there is something that comes. And the agri reversals, the interest reversals on agri also go, but that goes to the loans – part of the interest on loans. Yeah, correct, that is a separate item.
Mahrukh Adajania, Analyst
But what is the agri reversal?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
So that’s again for the NPA, relating to NPA. Now, you reverse the interest once an account goes to NPA, and typically the agri interest reversal is about one-year interest at the reverse.
Mahrukh Adajania, Analyst
Okay, sir. Thank you.
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
Thank you. Yeah.
Operator, Operator
Thank you. Next question is from the line of Chintan Joshi from Autonomous. Please go ahead.
Chintan Joshi, Analyst
Hi, good evening. I’ve got one on liquidity and then one on your contingent provision. So, on liquidity, if I think about the last 2 quarters, on average balances, you’ve added about INR 1.2 trillion, INR 1.3 trillion of excess deposits over loans. And borrowings are only down about INR 250 billion. That excess liquidity that you have on balance sheet, at what yield have you parked that liquidity if you can share that with us? And also, what is the weighted average cost of borrowing that is maturing over the next 2 years? Just trying to understand what the funding synergies will look like over the next 12 to 18 months? And then on contingent provisions, the question is, what is the process of releasing that contingent provision? You released INR 3 billion. You obviously have a lot on your balance sheet. Will you be using these provisions to buffer the P&L volatility, and you kind of need to go to RBI to be able to use this, or you can use this at your own discretion? Thank you.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. Thank you. First on the liquidity. If you look at our balance sheet, average balance sheet, you’ll see that sequential quarter, the investments, net of cash and cash equivalent is up by about INR 500 billion or INR 50,000 crores, right? It’s up. And it gets invested by treasury through various instruments, and the earning on that can range anywhere between 6.5%, 7%, and depends on where it lands, right? To get to your context, you wanted to know at what rate we invest, but I’ll tell you the G-Secs, the 10-year G-Sec’s sub-7%, right? So, you get an idea of where those investments can go and there are several instruments that we choose to be there. So, I leave it with, it’s a period to period it changes and gets calibrated by our treasury and as much as possible they will optimize what could be done within the overall liquidity scenario that’s on the liquidity front. The second aspect on borrowing. The borrowing cost is about 8% or so is the borrowing cost that we have had particularly the borrowing that have come from HDFC Limited come with those kind of costs, right, 7.9%, 8% or so that includes the cost of the hedges and so on fully loaded cost it comes to about 8% or so on the borrowing. And, yes, we do optimize to the good point that you touched and linked it to borrowing. As part of the treasury management we do as much as possible link to see what are the opportunities out on the borrowing. There is a maturity profile you ask for the next 18 months. I think we published some of the maturity profile which is there and in the annual report it is there. But in addition to that I do want to say, opportunistically, we do look at things that we can do. For example, in this quarter, we did buy, call it, INR 44 billion or INR 4,400 crores of bonds and extinguished. That’s part of the ongoing process, treasury manages and optimizes whatever is possible and we mix and match and do these things. So, I hope that gives you an idea of continuously and dynamically it gets managed by our treasury. Get into the contingent provision as such, I mean we do – there is a science around the contingent provision. There is a process across various portfolio classes that we employ in terms of what we do and how we access certain things. If they are NPA, they are part of specifics, right? It’s not in NPA, it’s not in the contingent at all. Contingent is about, it’s not something that we foresee, but contingent upon certain events which can happen or not happen. And we assign various probabilities and we make certain judgment calls. And there is some process around it, a document process we follow. So, certainly, I think that is at a discretionary level.
Chintan Joshi, Analyst
So you released a little bit of contingent provision this quarter, so I was trying to understand what led to that release?
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
Okay, good point. Current quarter, there is a large wholesale account which in – performing wholesale account, which means they are not in NPA performing account, which we attacked for contingent provision, because our credit risk assessment showed that vulnerability, so we provided. And in this quarter, we received money, we collected cash and so the contingent was not required, we recovered.
Chintan Joshi, Analyst
Okay. So we should read that as recoveries rather than – okay, fine that answers the question. Thank you.
Operator, Operator
Thank you very much. Next question is from the line of Kunal Shah from Citigroup. Please go ahead.
Kunal Shah, Analyst
Yeah, thanks. So, the first question again in terms of the overall provisioning coverage, specific provisioning coverage, no doubt you indicated in terms of, on agri, it’s been flat on a quarter-on-quarter basis, but otherwise the trajectory has been downward. So, maybe have we reached the optimal level or should we see further? Maybe at least managing the provisioning cover is slightly lower, considering the behavior of the portfolio that we have. So how should we look at that entire trend, because last 5 quarters it’s been coming off?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Yeah, see the provision coverage ratio is a mix of various products that go in and go out, right? And as you know that when something enters 90, there is some level of provision we do and as they progress through the delinquent buckets it gets covered. And so, it depends on the mix of products that come and go. So, in this quarter, if you saw the agri product come and go, it’s a secure – and, again, the mix of secured/unsecured is very relevant in the overall situation, right? And so, now you had an agri coming in will have certain level of provision, that is why ex-agri it is the provision coverage is 71%, and with the way it is reported, it is 68%. And the vintage of the NPA also matters, right, the newer vintage versus the older vintage and so on.
Kunal Shah, Analyst
Okay. Got it. So maybe if we assume that maybe the stress level remains, we are able to manage it well, then should it be managed at the current level or we will see the further decline out there, because of this pay the moment which happens in the NPA?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
See, there is no one particular formula or whatever, right? This depends on the mix of products secured/unsecured that come in and go out and so, thereby, the provision coverage moves in or out.
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
So Kunal, there is no discretion or judgment from a retail standpoint, it’s a product program, it’s a mix of the product and the stage of NPA which will define A, it is not necessarily some judgmental call that we take on a quarterly basis.
Kunal Shah, Analyst
Sure. And, overall, if you can share in terms of the 100% provisioning policy for the unsecured portfolio, when does that kick in and the right of policy? And any stress in any of the segments, maybe the overall excluding agri slippages were almost flat in the absolute term, but any segments that are worrying you, we are seeing few of the players talking about stress evolving in some of the other segments as well. Anything that is worrying you at this point in time?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. So two aspects of it. One, in terms of the write-off unsecured and so on, the product program in the retail area, each product program is different in terms of what it is, but you touched upon the unsecured. Unsecured gets written off at 150, which means if an account is not recoverable at 90, there is a very quick P&L take on that, right? So suddenly you’ll see that we hit 200% provision and then it gets out, right? So that’s something very important to note that if you’re not able to collect within 90, there is a huge acceleration in terms of the provisioning that happens there. So that’s in terms of a couple of unsecured, that’s where. And the secured will have another kind of 150, 180 and so on, but then this is the kind of process, again, part of the product program formulaic determined. The second aspect that touched upon is the quality of the overall book. The quality of the overall book across segments continues to remain stable, which is retail, the retail unsecured/secured or in the CRB books, the SME book or the SLI book or whatever, or the wholesale book for that matter, pretty stable across all of those segments as we see.
Kunal Shah, Analyst
Okay. Thanks and all the best, yeah.
Operator, Operator
Thank you. Next question is from the line of Suresh Ganapathy from Macquarie Capital. Please go ahead.
Suresh Ganapathy, Analyst
Yeah, there are two questions. One is on the HDB Financial credit costs, I mean, gone up quite sharply few of you from 1.8% to 2.5%. Can you just give us some color, what has contributed to this, right, both whether it is secured/unsecured, just a little bit color on that? And the second thing is on the merger synergy itself. The merger happened on July 1st of last year, if I were to take a snapshot at that point in time, your margins were at 3.4% and cost ratio was 40.5%. 18 months down the line, the numbers are still the same. So nothing has changed with respect to margins or operational expenditure. Now, when can we start seeing some of these numbers happening, because it’s 18 months already into the merger? When can we see the margins improve, the cost ratios coming down? Any color on that would be greater. Exactly, I’m asking for the immediate guidance, but it’s 18 months into the merger. So, we thought we should see something on these 2 ratios. Thank you.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. Thank you, Suresh. I’m going to get started and then the others can join with whatever. First is the HDB that they touched upon. Yes, the HDB did have higher levels of stage three in this quarter. The difference between this quarter and last year was a lot to do with provision, including management overlays due to lowering of the economic forecast and so on. So higher levels of provision in stage three. Stage two, which is very important because that’s where the flows move in as we go along. Stage two improved from September to December by about 5 basis points or so stage two improved. But stage three at an aggregate level changed by 15 basis points. But, however, within that stage three, there are two categories that we look at and manage. One is loans that at some point in time, this quarter, prior quarter or even 2, 3 quarters ago moved into NPA, but subsequently have pulled below 90 days, but have not managed to pull all the way to zero days which means they are no more 90 days, but still NPA because they have not come back below zero. So that particular category is higher in this quarter than what it was in September. So that means something slipped and pulled back, but not pulled back enough. So subject to that the overall stage three, right, is up by about 5 basis points or so. In this overall category segmented book which is for a couple of notches below the bank category of segment, 5 basis points is within the reason and the provisions were based up on that purpose. So that’s on the HDB as such. The second aspect on the merger and the merger benefits and so on. See there are several dimensions to the merger, certain basic metrics like getting the liability accounts open, we are like 96%, 97% successful for any new to bank incremental mortgages coming in. So that’s part of the beginning, and it comes with some INR 30,000, INR 32,000 balances, 1- to 2-month installment. So, we are making good traction on that. The second traction is that out of the 4-odd-million customers, we need to get the liability accounts open for that balance, so that we get into not just a mortgage product relationship for overall banking, about INR 1.9 million of them so far, we have been successful to bring them on the liability relationship. We have more to do on that one, right? So that’s the second. And then we have another about 0.25 million or 250,000 customers or so, where we not only have this, we have multiple other products like a credit card products and few other products we have started. Another dimension to the merger is also about the branches. How many branches we have to get through various, not just those 2,500, 3,000 branches, but broader. But if you look at over the last 6 months, 80%-plus of the branches have been able to do at least one. So depends on customer demand, but at least we made good traction that capability at the branch level to open is there. Now, coming to the other dimension of it, which is get to the margin, the cost-to-income and so on and so forth. Yes, the margin we started with 3.4% has been in a stable band over the last several quarters. And the good amount of the tailwind that has come through reduced borrowing cost, which is what we managed to get good amount of borrowing done has been offset by the CASA, right? Again, it’s a customer behavior. We have a choice to make in terms of whether we want the holistic customer relationship that includes time deposit, which grew at 22.7% in this quarter, right? Or we don’t get that time deposit and look for only CASA, so that the margin can go up. That’s a choice to make, but then I think the business leaders did make the choice to say that we need to keep that customer relationship alive and growing. So it’s not about, so that in course of time, we will get that CASA coming. So that’s another aspect of it. Sashi, I don’t know whether you want to add, the cost income you’ll tell…
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
Suresh, let’s also look back into perspective that the environment at which was prevailing at the time of announcement of the merger or at the time of the merger in July 2023, was completely different from where it has progressed from then on and where we are witnessing at this very moment in time. Obviously, on a static basis, I would have agreed with you, probably, we could have done better. But when you look at the dynamic environment that we have been witnessing since the merger, we have seen a shift in terms of what we need to reorient ourselves. I mean, at that point in time, we were contemplating of growing our business in a manner similar to what we have been doing for a long period of time in terms of gaining market share even on loans. But then, when the macro started to change, when liquidity started to tighten, when the outlook on credit started to change negatively, as we recall, and you would recall, that in February of 2024, I think as early as February 2024, we called out to say that we are changing our tack. We said that we will grow, we will try and bring down the credit deposit ratio as quickly as possible over a 2- to 3-year timeframe, FY 2025 will be lesser than the system, FY 2026 will be in line with the system, FY 2027 will be faster than the system. So, obviously, this means that in FY 2025, you are – as you have seen now with an average even growth of 7%, this is in line with what we had envisaged. So, obviously, some of the parameters that we were talking at the time of what you were expecting or what even we were expecting at the time of the merger does not hold good and we have to recalibrate ourselves. So in the light of that, to maintain stability, which is what Srini was mentioning, and being range bound means that I think the company has been resilient enough instead of going northwards in some of the key metrics and parameters, we’ve been able to maintain in a range bound manner, which itself shows that as things start to get better from a macro environment perspective, from a liquidity perspective, when deposit prices start to come down, and probably, you have seen, we have all seen that as prices come down, CASA ratios will also move up, you will have a kind of shift in some of the matrices, which is in line with what you and I would be expecting, et cetera. I think that perspective needs to be factored in, in terms of why we continue to stable and not sort of having the upward trajectory on some of the metrics like margins or a downward trajectory on cost-to-income.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
On the cost-to-income, I want to add that we are at about 40.5% or so between 40% and 41%. It’s been stable at that level. Two aspects to it, if you look at the rate of growth of cost, about 7.5% or so rate of growth of cost, right? The country’s inflation is between 5% and 6% at an aggregate level. And depending on the wage and so on and so forth, it’s getting maintained at that level, a sub-8%. One other context to that is despite we have added 1,052 branches in the last 12 months. So we’ve added that and managing the cost in a tight leash. I will continue to make those investments in technology. The technology component of the costs are north of 10% right now. It used to be in high-single-digit, now it’s north of 10%. So, I continue to make those investments that are required. Lastly, I do want to add, not just about the cost-to-income, which is a function of the numerator and the denominator. So, we also talked about that margin impact there. If you look at the cost to assets at about 1.93% or so, is very tight and is one of the best-in-class at cost to asset basis. I just want to leave it there and hope that gives you some perspective, Suresh.
Suresh Ganapathy, Analyst
Thank you so much.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Thank you. Yeah.
Operator, Operator
Thank you. Next question is from the line of Pranav from Sanford C. Bernstein. Please go ahead.
Pranav Gundlapalle, Analyst
Hey, good evening. Thanks for taking the question. The first question is on your loan book. I mean, if you look at the bank’s loan book today, it’s meaningfully lower than peers, where it’s the long-term history where even if you include the detail mortgages, the loan book was much higher. Now, if you look forward to the next 2 or 3 years, do you think the absolute loan book will converge with peers? Or do you think only the risk-adjusted yields will converge? Or will the lower risk-adjusted yields be the price to pay for scale? So, where do you keep progressing next, not in the next few quarters, but more like a 2- or 3-year outlook?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. Yeah. There are two aspects to it. If you look at the current composition of our risk-weighted density, which in one of our pages that we have, it’s been stable at about 67% of the risk-weighted density. That means the assets, RWA to total assets at about 67%, it’s been pretty stable. Or if you look at the RWA to funded and non-funded post the conversion factor at 63% or so. And if you benchmark this to some of the peers, you’ll see that it’s at least 5 to 7 percentage points are thereabouts and lower, right? So that means the risk density on the book appears to be lower. That’s one. The second aspect of it is in a strategic sense, when you look at it in a couple of years where the yield is, yield is a function of the mix. And as the retail, which over the last 12 to 18 months, we have been cautious in terms of the retail, even before our overall loan book, we started to pare down the rate of growth, the retail rate of growth was even earlier taken down, the rate of growth by our credit. But through calibration of credit models, they took down the retail. So it’s a function of the mix. We continue to make investments in retail people and product and technology. We do expect that the retail mix will go up. And so thereby, the yield on the overall book should tend up. And thereby, you will see that the risk-weighted density also move up, because the retail comes up with higher risk-weighted assets.
Pranav Gundlapalle, Analyst
Sorry, let’s say you see a convergence in the risk density, there’s no reason why we would be at a lower yield compared to P&L.
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
This is finally a customer segment and we would – our historically we’ve been operating in a slightly segment which is comfortable with us and hence you would find that historically as well our risk-weighted density is lower. So the convergence to my mind would happen if the risk undertaken from all, since you’re saying from a market, is similar or no?
Pranav Gundlapalle, Analyst
Understood. Understood. Thanks. The second question is just a little one on your trading and MPM. You just had like three quarters of low gains from securities, et cetera. Is that a one-off or is that something that we should expect to continue? How do you see that time going forward?
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
So we had, this quarter is a very modest number in terms of the growth.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
That is negative, right?
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
Yeah, where is it?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
So, one of the things that has happened is, we’ve inherited certain equity investment and that is also going through the P&L, which is showing up in that line that you’re speaking about, the mark-to-market which is coming.
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
Yeah, in this quarter particularly we’ve had almost INR 2.5 billion, INR 2.5 billion also negative, mark-to-market on an equity position that we have inherited, that we have taken through the P&L. It’s a negative.
Pranav Gundlapalle, Analyst
Understood. So next of that is nothing that’s changed fundamentally?
Sashidhar Jagdishan, CEO
No, fundamentally not.
Pranav Gundlapalle, Analyst
Thanks a lot. This was my two questions. Thank you.
Operator, Operator
Thank you. Next question is from the line of Rikin Shah from IIFL. Please go ahead.
Rikin Shah, Analyst
Good evening, and thanks for the opportunity. The first question is on the employee expense and more specifically the employee headcount. So after dipping in Q2, the employee headcount has again gone back to 210,000. And we’ve seen that some of the peers have been trying to stabilize the headcount and letting the natural attrition happen. So how should we think about the employee headcount going ahead? That’s question number one. And question number two, Sashi did allude to his earlier guidance that this year we should be growing slower than the system next year in line and FY 2027 faster. But in that context, while we are gaining deposit market share at around 16%, there is still inherent macro restrictions. And within that construct, the deposit growth can’t be significantly higher. So how confident do we feel about growing in line with the system for next year? Does that guidance still hold?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay, I’ll start off on the headcount. We have about 210 or so, about 2,500 call it around 3,000 people added in the quarter. And over a period of last quarter, we didn’t actually, we came down. So if you look at a 6-month or a 9-month period, or even 12-month period, it is just 2,000 from last December to this December. So we held on. Again, the reason is that we have ramped up some investments in people and maintained at that level. And we are working through various productivity models to enhance the value. Essentially, that means getting various tools to these people to utilize better for engagement. That doesn’t mean to say we will not add going forward. We take it every quarter at a time in terms of, these are mostly frontline, right? In fact, even across the book, we have 85%, 90% of the book touching the customer headcount, touching the customer in some manner or the other, right? So depending on the need and the traction, we will add, but again, we are circumspect in terms of getting the right kind of productivity before we can add. So that’s on the employee as such. The second aspect of the growth rate, how do you get to the growth rate in line with the market from where we are? Again, one thing to note is that there is not a product that we have exceeded or a geography that we have exceeded. We are there in all segments, all products, in all geography, and sitting on liquidity, right, and with of course capital tailwind, which is there. Currently, the rate of growth is consciously calibrated either through credit models, a good amount of the retail, I will put it in that bucket, or calibrated through price models because we do see tightening prices, tightening spreads in the non-retail. In the corporate world, the spreads are tightening, right? So somewhere between these, it has been calibrated. And the resources to get these loans up at the scale at which we want continue to be in the system, continues to be engaged. So it’s a question of at the right time that we want to dial, as Sashi was alluding to in his opening remarks, as the macro turns and we feel comfortable, the dial can be taken up.
Rikin Shah, Analyst
Got it. Thank you.
Operator, Operator
Thank you. Next question is from the line of Nitin Aggarwal from Motilal Oswal. Please go ahead.
Nitin Aggarwal, Analyst
Yeah. Hi. Good evening, Sashi and Srini. Thanks for taking my questions. I have two questions. One is like you alluded to the difficult macro conditions in your opening remarks, but HDFC Bank definitely continues to navigate well through this environment as overall slippage rate remains better versus peers. So, how are you looking at the credit environment in respect to unsecured loans and the commercial banking business? Because these are two segments that we have been still growing and given the vulnerability that you see, how like confident you are to maintain this slippage’s run rate and the credit cost overall?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. Good point, right. One, as we see now, the book is pretty stable. It’s performed both on the unsecured front or on the commercial side that you talked about has been pretty stable. And that is part of the credit monitoring model and the collection analytics that go to be in front of the queue to do all of that. I mean, there are various factors that go in. So, all of those factors are at play and have been top-notch in terms of keeping it pretty stable. And one other important aspect of you looking at being stable is the ratios are stable despite the slowness of the book, which means the book is not growing at 12%, like the industry grows. The book is growing at half the trade. Even when you slow it down, the ratios and the numbers look pretty stable. That essentially indicates the position of the origination quality as well as the capability in terms of getting the collection accomplished very well. So, I want to leave the thought. So as we see now going forward, we are confident of continuing our strength and displaying our strength on these portfolios.
Nitin Aggarwal, Analyst
Right. And we really appreciate that. And the second question is just a data-keeping one on the mix of floating and fixed-rate loans like how much is repo, how much is MCLR, if you can just share that color?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
We have roughly slightly under 70%, which is floating, 30%-odd which is fixed. And on the floating side, if you see almost, call it, 45% of thereabouts is repo-linked loans, we have some MCLR and some treasury bill linked to loans, but mostly it’s repo.
Nitin Aggarwal, Analyst
Right, Srini. Thanks so much and wish you all the best.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Thank you.
Operator, Operator
Thank you. Next question is from line of Ravi Purohit from SiMPL. Please go ahead.
Ravi Purohit, Analyst
Yeah. Hi. Thanks for taking my question. I have two questions. One is the NPAs that we got in from the HDFC wholesale book would have been classified as NPAs, they were restructured accounts earlier and they would have been classified now that they would have spent 12 months since then. Do we see a significant reversal of provisions of those that wholesale book in the current provisioning set? And the second question is on the wholesale deposits that came in with HDFC Limited book, how many? So we reported 16% growth in our total deposits. But excluding, let’s say, would we have let go of the wholesale deposits from HDFC Limited, or we would have continued? If you could just give some color excluding that or adjusted for that, what would have been actually the deposit growth that we have actually delivered? Those are my two questions. Thank you.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Okay. All right. Let me first talk to you about that provisioning or whatever, right? There are a bunch of contingent provisions that we have done in the past. And to the extent that I just alluded to for another question about when there is a cash recovery, we feel confident. And until then, we remain proficient on certain things. Now then we released the INR 30-odd-billion that I talked about – INR 3 billion that I talked about. The other aspect of it is, this is a good point that you raised. We do have almost about 15 basis points of our NPA, which are performing, right? They are performing. But historically, in the erstwhile organization, they were restructured. But since they were restructured, for the RBI regulation, we have marked them as NPA, 15 basis points. They are performing, but it is part of the NPA which is there, right? So, I do want to bring your attention to that. And the last aspect that you talked about is the deposits that we’ve brought in, and so the 16% rate of growth on deposits is net of all of that. There are certain categories of deposits, high cost particularly, non-retail, high cost type of deposits which we did not patternize or let go, because to us I think in two quarters ago or so we did talk about the value. There are certain institutional type of deposits. Example can be a trust, example can be certain other organizations where the value, the LCR value could be 100% runoff. And for which we do not need to pay the high rate which means the bulk deposit rate does not need to be paid. So if it is the bulk in nature they have gone. So excluding that, whether it will be more than 16, yes, it will be more than 16. How much? Maybe 2%, 3% better, but again it’s all part of the business and part of this overall mix.
Ravi Purohit, Analyst
Okay. Thank you. All the best.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Thank you.
Operator, Operator
Thank you. Next question is from the line of Param Subramanian from Nomura. Please go ahead.
Param Subramanian, Analyst
Yeah, hi. Thanks for taking my question. Firstly, going back to the priority sector. So, last year we had a shortfall in both SMF and weaker sections, and the one-third requirement from HDFC Limited book. So both of those PSL compliance will be completed by fourth quarter. Is that the way to look at it? And what proportion would roughly be RIDF within that?
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Yeah. See, it is the requirements have kicked in. And that the requirements are one-third, one-third, one-third over a 3-year period. So there’s a glide path into that. And so, whatever when we have to meet not just for the year end, even for December for that matter, there is some proportion that kicks in. And that’s part of what I alluded to, to say, at an aggregate level, we are comfortable for the first 9 months, there is a percentage point or so that we do need to close on SMF and weaker section. That’s part of the plan in terms of how we operate for the next 3 months to close available, depending on what is available, and at the right price. And of course, the first goal is to organically grow as much as we can. And we don’t alternative instruments are used.
Param Subramanian, Analyst
Okay. Got it, Srini. So it’s a percentage point shortfall in both SMF and weaker sections. That’s probably where we are currently on the merged book.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
That is correct. Yeah.
Operator, Operator
Okay. Thank you. Next question is from the line of Rikin Shah from IIFL. Please go ahead.
Srinivasan Vaidyanathan, CFO
Thank you very much. That concludes our call. Please feel free to reach out to our Investor Relations team if you have any further questions or clarifications.