ICICI Bank Limited (ICICIBANK) Q1 FY23 Earnings Concall Transcript

ICICI Bank Limited (NSE:ICICIBANK) Q1 FY23 Earnings Concall dated Jul. 23, 2022

Corporate Participants:

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

Analysts:

Mahrukh Adajania — Edelweiss — Analyst

Manish Ostwal — Nirmal Bang Securities — Analyst

Nilanjan Karfa — Nomura — Analyst

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Nitin Agarwal — Motilal Oswal — Analyst

Ashish Sharma — ENAM AMC — Analyst

Rahul Jain — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

MB Mahesh — Kotak Securities — Analyst

Presentation:

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good day and welcome to the Q1 FY ’23 Earnings Conference Call of ICICI Bank. [Operator Instructions] There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions after the presentation concludes. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this conference is being recorded.

I now hand the conference over to Mr. Sandeep Bakhshi, Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank. Thank you, and over to you, sir.

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

Good evening to all of you and welcome to the ICICI Bank Earnings…

Operator

Sir, sorry to interrupt, your audio is coming in low.

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

Good evening to all of you welcome to the ICICI Bank Earnings Call to discuss the results for Q1 for financial year 2023. Joining us today on this call are Anup, Sandeep Batra, Rakesh, Anindya and Abhinek.

During the quarter we saw continued improvement in parameters like the index of industrial production, travel and mobility, pickup in non-oil and gold imports and bank credit. There are concerns arising out of the movements in inflation and interest and exchange rate, largely reflecting the uncertainties in the global environment. The government and the Reserve Bank of India have taken various steps in this regard. We will continue to monitor these developments closely. At ICICI Bank, we aim to grow the core operating profit in a risk-calibrated manner to a 360-degree customer-centric approach and by focusing on ecosystems and micro markets. We continue to operate within our strategic framework and strengthen our franchise and hence our delivery and servicing capabilities and expand our technology and digital offerings.

Coming to the quarterly performance against this framework, first, growth in the core operating profit in a risk-calibrated manner through the focused pursuit of target market segments. The core operating profit increased by 19.4% year-on-year to INR102.73 billion in this quarter. Excluding dividend income from subsidiaries and associates, core operating profit grew by 21.1% year-on-year. The profit after tax grew by 49.6% year-on-year to INR69.05 billion in this quarter. Second, further enhancing our strong deposit franchise. Total period-end deposits grew by 13.4% year-on-year at June 30, 2022. During the quarter, average current account deposits increased by 23% year-on-year and 2.9% sequentially.

Average savings account deposits grew by 19.1% year-on-year and 4.4% sequentially. Period-end term deposits grew by 11.4% year-on-year at June 30, 2022. The liquidity coverage ratio for the quarter was about 127%, reflecting continued surplus liquidity. Our cost of deposits continues to be amongst the lowest in the system. Third, growing our loan portfolio in a granular manner with a focus on risk and reward. The retail loan portfolio grew by 24.4% year-on-year and 5.1% sequentially at June 30, 2022. Including non-fund based outstanding, the retail portfolio was 44% of the total portfolio. The rural portfolio grew by 8.4% year-on-year and was flat sequentially. The business banking portfolio grew by 44.7% year-on-year and 7.4% sequentially. The SME portfolio grew by 32.3% year-on-year and declined by 2.6% sequentially.

The growth in SME and business banking portfolios was driven by leveraging our branch network cross-selling to existing current account customers and digital offerings such as InstaBIZ and Merchant Stack. The domestic corporate portfolio grew by 14.4% year-on-year and 4.4% sequentially at June 30, 2022. The domestic loan portfolio grew by 21.7% year-on-year and 3.9% sequentially. The overall loan portfolio grew by 21.3% year-on-year and 4.3% sequentially at June 30, 2022.

Fourth, leveraging digital across our business. We continue to enhance our digital offerings and platforms to on-board new customers in a seamless manner and provide them end-to-end digital journey and personalized solutions. These platforms also enable us to do more data-driven cross-sell and upsell. Recently, we have further enhanced the open architecture-based features of InstaBIZ. Merchants can now open a current account instantly and digitally on InstaBIZ by using video KYC.

Through InstaOD Plus, customers of any bank in an overdraft facility of up to INR2.5 million instantly on InstaBIZ. We have seen about 1.2 lakh registrations from non-ICICI Bank account holders on InstaBIZ till June 30, 2022. Recently, the bank launched a revamped OneSCF, an integrated supply chain platform, providing output corporate solutions, their vendors and dealers with a one-stop solution to efficiently manage their working capital requirements. We have shared some details on our technology and digital offerings in the slides 18 to 28 of the investor presentation.

Fifth, protecting the balance sheet from potential risks. The net NPA ratio declined to 0.7% at June 30, 2022 from 0.76% at March 31, 2022 and 1.16% at June 30, 2021. During the quarter there were net additions of INR3.82 billion to gross NPAs excluding write-offs and sales. The provisioning coverage ratio on NPAs was 79.6% at June 30, 2020. The total provisions during the quarter was INR11.44 billion or 11.1% of core operating profit and 0.53% of average advances. This includes contingency provision of INR10.50 billion made on a prudent basis. The Bank holds contingency provisions of INR85 billion or 0.9% of total loans as of June 30, 2022.

Sixth, maintaining a strong capital base. The capital position of the Bank continued to be strong with a CET1 ratio of 17.23%, Tier 1 ratio is 17.95% and total capital adequacy ratio of 18.74% at June 30, 2022, including profits for the quarter. Looking ahead, we see many opportunities to grow the core operating profit in a risk-calibrated manner. In order to leverage these opportunities, we have reorganized our business teams. Cities with large concentrated market opportunities have been organized under city business head, covering the full spectrum of ecosystems.

We have also focused on strengthening the workforce by scaling and providing cross-functional opportunities. We will continue to make investments in technology, people, distribution and building our brand. Going forward, we will continue to operate within our strategic framework, while focusing on micro market and ecosystems. The principles of Fair to Customers, Fair to Bank and One Bank, One ROE will guide our operations. We focus on building a culture where every employee in the Bank serve customers with humility and upholds the values of brand ICICI. We aim to be the trusted financial service provider of choice for our customers and deliver sustainable returns to our shareholders.

I now hand the call over to Anindya.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Sandeep. I will talk about balance sheet growth, credit quality, P&L details, growth in digital offering, portfolio trends and performance of subsidiaries. Balance sheet growth, Sandeep covered the loan growth across various segments. Coming to the growth across retail products, the mortgage portfolio grew by 22.3% year-on-year and 4.1% sequentially. Auto loans grew by 17.6% year-on-year and 5.2% sequentially. The commercial vehicles and equipment portfolio grew by 3.7% year-on-year and was flat sequentially. Growth in the personal loan and credit card portfolio was 44.7% year-on-year and 9.6% sequentially. This portfolio was INR963.85 billion or 10.8% of the overall loan book at June 30, 2022.

The overseas loan portfolio in US dollar terms grew by 7.4% year-on-year and 6.4% sequentially at June 30, 2022. The increase in the overseas loan portfolio was primarily due to increase in the India-linked trade finance book. The overseas loan portfolio was about 5.1% of the overall loan book at June 30. The non-India-linked corporate portfolio declined by 52.8% or about USD513 million on a year-on-year basis. Of the overseas corporate portfolio, about 87% comprises Indian corporates, 6% is overseas corporates with Indian linkage, 4% companies owned by NRIs or PIOs and balance 3% is non-India corporates.

Coming to credit quality, there were net additions of INR3.82 billion to gross NPAs in the current quarter compared to net deletion of INR4.89 billion in the previous quarter. There were net additions of INR7.24 billion to gross NPAs in the retail, rural and business banking portfolio and net deletions of INR3.42 billion from gross NPAs in the corporate and SME portfolios. The gross NPA additions were INR55 billion in the current quarter compared to INR42.04 billion in the previous quarter.

The gross NPA additions from the retail, rural and business banking portfolio was INR50.37 billion and from the corporate and SME portfolio was INR7.88 billion. There were gross NPA additions of about INR7.55 billion from the Kisan Credit Card portfolio in the current quarter. We typically see higher NPA additions from the Kisan Credit Card portfolio in the first and third quarter of a fiscal year. Recoveries and upgrades from gross NPAs excluding write-offs and sale was INR54.43 billion in the current quarter compared to INR46.93 billion in the previous quarter.

There were recoveries and upgrades of INR43.13 billion from the retail, rural and business banking portfolio and INR11.3 billion from the corporate and SME portfolio. The gross NPAs written off during the quarter were INR11.26 billion. The Bank sold NPAs amounting to INR0.13 billion during the quarter on a cash basis. Net NPAs declined by 28.5% year-on-year and 4.4% sequentially to INR66.5 billion at June 30, 2022. The non-fund based outstanding to borrowers classified as nonperforming was INR36.7 billion as of June 30, 2022 compared to INR36.4 billion as of March 31, 2022.

The bank holds provisions amounting to INR20.75 billion as of June 30, 2022 against this non-fund based outstanding. The total fund-based outstanding to all standard borrowers under resolution as per various guidelines declined to INR73.76 billion or about 0.8% of the total loan portfolio at June 30, 2022 from INR82.67 billion as of March 31, 2022. Of the total fund-based outstanding under resolution at June 30, 2022, a INR52.75 billion was from the retail, rural and business banking portfolio and INR21.01 billion was from the corporate and SME portfolio. The Bank holds provisions of INR22.90 billion against these borrowers, which is higher than the requirement as per RBI guidelines.

Coming to details of the P&L, net interest income increased by 20.8% year-on-year to INR132.1 billion. The net interest margin was 4.01% in this quarter compared to 4.0% in the previous quarter and 3.89% in Q1 of last year. The impact of interest on income tax refund on net interest margin was 3 bps in quarter one of this year compared to 1 basis point in the previous quarter and in quarter one of last year. The domestic NIM was at 4.14% this quarter compared to 4.12% in the previous quarter and 3.99% in Q1 last year. The cost of deposits was 3.46% in this quarter compared to 3.48% in the previous quarter.

Of the total domestic loan, interest rates on 43% are linked to the repo date, 6% to other external benchmarks and 21% to MCLR and other older benchmarks. The balance 30% of loans have fixed interest rates. Non-interest income, excluding treasury income grew by 24.9% year-on-year to INR46.29 billion in Q1 of 2023. Fee income increased by 31.8% year-on-year to INR42.43 billion rupees in this quarter, driven by growth across various segments, partly reflecting the low base in Q1 of last year. Fees from retail, rural, business banking and SME customers grew by 37.8% year-on-year and constituted about 79% of the total fees in this quarter.

Dividend income from subsidiaries and associates was INR3.47 billion in this quarter compared to INR4.1 billion in Q1 of last year. The year-on-year decline in dividend income was due to lower final dividend from ICICI Life, offset in part by higher dividends from ICICI AMC and ICICI Securities Primary Dealership. On costs, the Bank’s operating expenses increased by 25.3% year-on-year in this quarter, partly reflecting the low base in Q1 of last year. The employee expenses increased by 20% year-on-year. The Bank had about 107,350 employees at June 30, 2022. The employee count has increased by about 7,250 in the last 12 months. Employee expenses in this quarter include an impact of INR1.29 billion due to fair valuation of ESOPs granted to all employees post April 1, 2021, as required by RBI guidelines.

Non-employee expenses increased by 28.8% year-on-year in this quarter, primarily due to retail business and technology-related expenses. The technology expenses were about 8.5% of our operating expenses in this quarter, similar to FY 2022. The core operating profit increased by 19.4% year-on-year to INR102.73 billion in this quarter. Excluding dividend income from subsidiaries and associates, the core operating profit grew by 21.1% year-on-year. There was a treasury gain of INR0.36 billion in Q1 compared to INR1.29 billion in Q4 and INR2.90 billion in Q1 of the previous year.

The total provisions during the quarter were INR11.44 billion or 11.1% of core operating profit and 0.53% of average advances. These include contingency provisions of INR10.50 billion made on a prudent basis. The provisioning coverage on NPAs continued to be robust at 79.6%. In addition, we hold INR22.90 billion of provisions on borrowers under resolution. Further, the Bank holds contingency provision of INR85 billion as of June 30, 2022. At June 30, 2022, the total provision other than specific provisions on fund-based outstanding to borrowers classified as nonperforming were INR187.70 billion or 2.1% of loans.

The profit before tax grew by 51.7% year-on-year to INR91.65 billion in this quarter. The tax expense was INR22.60 billion in this quarter compared to INR14.27 billion in the corresponding quarter last year. The profit after tax grew by 49.6% year-on-year to INR69.05 billion in this quarter. The consolidated profit after tax grew by 55% year-on-year to INR73.85 billion in this quarter.

Coming to the growth in digital offering, leveraging digital and technology across businesses is a key element of our strategy of growing the risk calibrated core operating profit. We continue to see increasing adoption and usage of our digital platforms by our customers. There have been 7.3 million activations of iMobile Pay by non-ICICI Bank account holders as of end-June. The value of transactions by non-ICICI Bank account holders increased by 35% sequentially in the current quarter.

The value of credit card spend in the current quarter grew by 12.6% sequentially and was 2 times the value of spend in Q1 of last year, driven by improvement in discretionary spending, higher activation rate through digital on-boarding of customers, including through the Amazon Pay credit card and diversification through commercial cards. The bank has issued more than 3.2 million Amazon Pay credit card since its launch.

During the quarter, we launched Campus Power, an online platform providing various banking solutions such as loans, bank accounts, foreign exchange remittances and value-added services to the student ecosystem for higher education in India and abroad. The value of financial transactions on InstaBIZ grew by about 57% year-on-year in the current quarter. The value of transactions on our supply chain solutions, CorpConnect and DigitalLite in the current quarter was 2.4 times the value of transactions in Q1 last year.

The proportion of end-to-end digital sanctions and disbursements across various products has been increasing steadily. About 33% of our mortgage sanctions and 44% of our personal loan disbursements by volume were end-to-end digital in Q1 of this year. The Bank has created more than 20 industry specific stacks, which provide bespoke and purpose-based digital solution to corporate clients and their ecosystem. The volume of payments and collection transactions through API-based solutions in Q1 of this year was 3.7 times the volume of transactions in Q1 last year.

Moving onto information on the portfolio, we have provided details on our retail business banking and SME portfolios in slides 35 to 45 of the investor presentation. The loan and non-fund based outstanding to performing corporate and SME borrowers rated BB and below was INR82.09 billion at June 30, 2022 compared to INR108.08 billion at March 31, 2022. This amount of INR82.09 billion at June 30, 2022 includes INR28.89 billion of loans under resolution. The sequential decline during the quarter was mainly due to reduction in exposure to a borrower in the telecom sector and upgrades of a few accounts in the power and construction sectors. The details are given on slides 37 and 38 of the investor presentation.

Other than one account in the power sector where resolution has been implemented as per RBI’s COVID-19 resolution framework, the maximum single borrower outstanding in the BB and below portfolio was less than INR6 billion at June 30, 2022. At June 30, 2022, we held provisions of INR8.61 billion on the BB and below portfolio compared to INR12.32 billion at March 31, 2022. This includes provisions held against borrowers under resolution included in this portfolio.

The total outstanding to NBFCs and HFCs were INR699.72 billion at June 30, 2022 compared to INR686.32 billion at March 31, 2022. The total outstanding loans to NBFCs and HFCs were about 8% of our advances at June 30, 2022. The sequential increase in the outstanding to NBFCs and HFCs is mainly due to disbursements to public sector entities, entities having long vintage and entities owned by well-established corporate groups.

The builder portfolio including construction finance, lease rental discounting, term loans and working capital loans was INR275.69 billion at June 30, 2022 compared to INR269.48 billion at March 31, 2022. The builder portfolio is about 3% of our total loan portfolio. Our portfolio is granular in nature with the larger exposures being to well established builders and this is also reflected in the sequential increase in the portfolio. About 8.3% of our builder portfolio at June 30, 2022 was either rated BB and below internally or was classified as nonperforming compared to about 9.5% at March 31, 2022.

Moving on to subsidiaries and key associates, the details of the financial performance of subsidiaries and key associates are covered in slides 49 to 51 and slides 70 to 75 in the investor presentation. The VNB margin of ICICI Life increased from 28% in FY ’22 to 31% in Q1 of this year. The value of new business increased by 31.6% year-on-year to INR4.71 billion in Q1 of this year. The annualized premium equivalent grew by 24.7% year-on-year to INR15.2 billion in Q1 of this year. The profit after tax of ICICI Life was INR1.56 billion in Q1 of this year compared to a loss of 1.86 billion in Q1 of last year.

The gross direct premium income of ICICI General increased by 28.2% year-on-year to INR53.7 billion in Q1 of this year. The combined ratio was 104.1% in Q1 of this year compared to 123.5% in Q1 of last year. The profit after tax grew by 79.6% year-on-year to INR3.49 billion in the current quarter. The profit after-tax of ICICI AMC was INR3.05 billion in this quarter compared to INR3.8 billion in Q1 of last year. The profit after tax of ICICI Securities on a consolidated basis, was INR2.74 billion in this quarter compared to INR3.11 billion in Q1 of last year.

ICICI Bank Canada had a profit after tax of CAD7.2 million in this quarter compared to CAD5 million in Q1 last year and CAD4.3 million in the preceding quarter. ICICI Bank UK had a profit after tax of USD3.4 million this quarter compared to USD2.9 million in Q1 of last year and USD3.1 million in Q4 last year. As per IndAS, ICICI Home Finance had a profit after tax of INR0.4 billion In the current quarter compared to INR0.17 billion in Q1 of last year and INR0.53 billion in Q4.

With this, we conclude our opening remarks and we’d now be happy to take your questions.

Questions and Answers:

Operator

Thank you very much, sir. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] The first question is from the line of Mahrukh Adajania from Edelweiss. Please, go ahead.

Mahrukh Adajania — Edelweiss — Analyst

Yes, hello. Congratulations. Could you please explain the increase in employee expenses, because there was a sharp increase? That’s my first question.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So Mahrukh, as we explained, we have added — if you compare over the last 12 months, we’ve added about 7,250 employees. Also, the ESOP cost, which was not accounted for in Q1 of last year is getting accounted for in Q1 of this year. That’s about INR1.29 billion and we would have the impact of promotions and increments that would have become effective in the current quarter.

Mahrukh Adajania — Edelweiss — Analyst

Okay. So, a large part of it is growth related as well?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

Yes.

Mahrukh Adajania — Edelweiss — Analyst

Okay. And my other question was on your yields. So, if you see the yield on loans, it’s kind of declined quarter-on-quarter. That’s largely because of the foreign book?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

No. So, I think as you know, the rise in interest rates is a phenomenon that started to play out only from June. So it reflects the rates at which lending has been done over the last few quarters and the relative maturity versus new lending in the book because rates were quite competitive to me as well. There would also be, if you recall, last time we had mentioned that there is some arithmetical impact between Q4 and Q1 because of the number of days. So, if you look back historically, also in Q1 versus Q4, the yield has been slightly lower.

Mahrukh Adajania — Edelweiss — Analyst

Got it, thanks. In general, how would the growth outlook pan out as in that we are into some low phase right now. But does the global scenario impact growth six months down the line or is there a resilient structure demand?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, I think currently, Mahrukh, if you look at general loan growth across the sector as well as for us and our peer banks who have reported, it has held up quite well. Although, rates have started moving up from late May and there seems to be fair degree of resilience in demand in the typical segments in which banks like us operate, but we’ll have to monitor this as we go along.

Mahrukh Adajania — Edelweiss — Analyst

Got it. And I just have one last question, which is really on your bond portfolio, so you did make trading gains and you did not have any mark-to-market loss. That’s correct?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, Mahrukh, in our AFS portfolio, as we have discussed in the past, we generally carry a very low duration. So, whatever mark- to-market, if at all, would have been, would have been negligible. And we would have had some small gains on the equity side. So, that has led to this small net positive, but even adjusted for that, we would not have had any material mark-to-market gains at all because of the low duration of our AFS portfolio.

Mahrukh Adajania — Edelweiss — Analyst

Okay, thanks a lot. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Manish Ostwal from Nirmal Bang. Please, go ahead.

Manish Ostwal — Nirmal Bang Securities — Analyst

Thank you, sir. Only one small data point. What is the size of the AFS book and the m-duration, modified duration of the book?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

We don’t disclose that on a quarterly basis.

Manish Ostwal — Nirmal Bang Securities — Analyst

Okay, sir. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Nilanjan Karfa from Nomura. Please, go ahead.

Nilanjan Karfa — Nomura — Analyst

Hi, thanks. Hope I’m audible. Anindya, going back to the yield question, would you have some walk in terms of the incremental loans that we do at a higher rate? Because decline on a sequential basis even after including the reasons that you give is a little more. If you can just help us walk through that decline.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

No, I think you already explained it that lending rates were pretty competitive — have been pretty competitive across segments over the last few quarters. So, that will now start reversing out as the benchmark pickup and there would have been some mathematical impact of the D count, which has been seen in the past as well. Beyond that, really there is no other factor.

Nilanjan Karfa — Nomura — Analyst

Okay. And — so if the reasons continue like this, do you think when the back book reprices along with the reset debt, do you expect the reset to also be slightly muted?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

No, the reset will be to the extent that the benchmark changes. So, it will entirely reflects the change in the benchmark. There is no change in the spreads.

Nilanjan Karfa — Nomura — Analyst

Right, Okay, all right. The second one I wanted to just ask is on the SME portfolio, that’s quite even though there is a sequential decline, I think the growth is quite robust. Could you help understand which are the segments where you are seeing a lot of demand? And secondly, across both SME and the corporate loan, could you share you know what percentage is the working capital loan and how this has changed through this quarter, because the commodity prices have also been quite volatile?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, I think if you look at our portfolio, we have been quite consistently growing the SME portfolio for the last four years or so. We had made a lot of changes in the way we approach this category of customers over the last five years in terms of our distribution, our credit underwriting, our portfolio granularity and so on. And this is probably one of the portfolios where you know the credit outcomes so far post COVID has been somewhat better than what we may have originally anticipated. So, we are quite comfortable with growth across — in this portfolio.

One of the other things that we have done over the last three years is invested heavily in digital propositions for this — for this segment of customers and we have also seen a fairly high increase in digital adoption in this segment. So, those are good areas that have driven this growth. It is a mix of working capital and and sort of term loans. I don’t think that there is anything specific to call out in terms of increase in working capital requirement in this quarter as such because the growth rates have been quite in line with what we have seen in the past adjusted for the period of dislocation during the pandemic.

Nilanjan Karfa — Nomura — Analyst

Right. Let me squeeze in a third one. If we look at the segmental disclosure and while we obviously don’t talk about how the equities are split between the businesses but generally speaking, if you look at the profitability of each of the segments, which is the segment that you are seeing the profitability sort of jump quite a bit? Would you say that, for example, the corporate or the wholesale segment is actually doing a little better than retail? And do you think that’s going to persist through the next couple of quarters?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

No I don’t think so. I think the corporate segment, if you look at the improvement in profitability for what is reported in the corporate segment, I think part of that is due to a reduction in actually a write-back of provisions as recoveries. We continue to get recoveries out of past NPLs in that portfolio. On the retail side, of course, if you look at it on a year-on-year basis, there is a sort of multiple jump in the profit. On a sequential basis, I think a lot of the 75%, 80% of our cost base sits in retail. So, the sequential increase in costs that we discussed earlier, in response to another question would largely reflect in retail.

And also, as we mentioned in the first quarter, we do see the seasonally higher addition to NPAs in the KCC portfolio, which was INR7.55 billion in this quarter and the provisioning on that could also have — could also form part of the segmental results. But I don’t think in terms of long-term profitability trend there is anything to call out. And the last thing I would like to say that we are increasingly trying to organize ourselves around ecosystem. So, you know there is a lot of sort of how should I say, while basis regulatory requirements, we would be reporting a segmental basis. But the way we are organized internally is much more around cross-functional teams and looking at particular ecosystems where these distinctions are quite pipe blurred in that.

Nilanjan Karfa — Nomura — Analyst

Great, Anindya. Thank you so much.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Jai Mundhra from B&K Securities. Please, go ahead.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Yeah, hi, sir, good evening, and thanks for the opportunity. First, sir…

Operator

Sir, if you can take the phone off speaker, please.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Sure. Yeah. Is it any better?

Operator

Yes, sir. If you can speak a little close and little doubt.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Yeah, hi, sir. If you can share the duration of your term deposit, what could be the average duration of your term deposits? I mean a ballpark number will also do.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

We have not really given duration per se. I think we do publish the sort of maturity pattern. I would say that we would have significant proportion in one-year plus.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Right. I think that gets distorted because one-year plus would have the entire CA and I don’t know what percentage of SA would be sitting in either three years, five years. So specifically, on term deposit, I mean ballpark, let’s say, how much of that would be let’s say, less than one year? Or how much could be over three years or five years?

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

The retail term deposits actually across most banks, lot of it is in the one-year bucket that Anindya said, it is for the retail, in particular, not the total deposits, a lot of it is in one year and of course, we have been offering slightly higher rates in the longer bucket as well in the three-year bucket. So, some of the deposits would have come in that bucket but predominantly, it will be in the one year, 12 to 18 month bucket. And for all banks, it will be pretty similar.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Sure. Understood. And just while we’re on this, the distribution of savings, the current deposit will always be less than one year, right, is it fair to assume that, let’s say 90%, 95% of the CA in that maturity pattern would be sitting in less than one-year maturity?

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

That is behavior. So, it will vary for the CASA.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

I will vary and it may not be consistent across banks as well.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Right, okay. Second question is, sir, on your distribution strategy, I mean the branch strategy, we have been fairly calibrated over the last three, four years maybe rightly so, because we have already increased the digital offerings and digital services. How do you think that you may have to sort of rethink that approach over the next — for the next two to three years considering the competitive landscape emerging especially distribution strategy by the largest private bank?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So we have, you know, we gave a lot of flexibility to our operating teams on where and how many branches they want to open. We have not imposed any restrictions. It is part of the investment that needs to be made and managed within our overall PPOP framework. This quarter, if you see we have after long time added about 120 branches. So, we will keep looking at that and adding as we need to wherever we see opportunity to either establish a presence in a growth market or deepen our presence in a high value market.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Right. So, the question is similar that could we see a higher branch addition pace versus what we have seen over the, let’s say last two, three years.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, I think we could. But that is based on our own sort of growth strategy.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Understood, understood. And last question, sir. Is — I mean even adjusted for KCC slippages, the retail slippages on a — compared to last quarter, also look higher. Would you have any specific reasons apart from the KCC slippages?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, as we have been saying for some time, I think in the granular portfolios like retail, business banking, SME and so on, we need to focus on the net slippage. Similarly, in the granular working capital accounts where there may be an NPA classification due to some technical reason, which then that’s regularized. These types of accounts to a large extent tend to cure in a pretty sharp period of time. This is very different from the lumpy corporate type exposures, which once they get into the NPA bucket, there is typically a long delay till the recovery happens. So, we would really focus on the net number. And as far as the net number is concerned, we have been saying for some time that of course in the second half of last year, we had net dilution from gross NPAs, but that was due to higher recoveries out of the stock of NPAs that had got created during the pandemic period and we were expecting that the net additions would — we would start see positive net additions from the current quarter, which is, which is what has played out, although I must say that even the current level of net additions is relatively low.

Jai Mundhra — B&K Securities — Analyst

Right. Yeah. That’s all from my side, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you. [Operator Instructions] The next question is from the line of Nitin Agarwal from Motilal Oswal. Please, go ahead.

Nitin Agarwal — Motilal Oswal — Analyst

Yeah, hi, good evening, and congratulations on a strong performance. Two questions. Like, one is around how sustainable are the recoveries trend that we are witnessing over the past few quarters? And in context to this, if you look at our provisions to PPOP guidance and even including the contingent provisions, we are seeing a very benign run rate. So, how do we see that? Any thoughts around this?

And second question is on unsecured book, the yield and credit card both are doing very well and the mix is now 10.5% to 11% of the total book. And so how do you really see that? Any cap that we will look to have on the mix of unsecured assets? These are my two questions.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, so on the first one, I think one is that I guess sort of gives us confidence in our underwriting and I think that the two things we must remember is that on the corporate side, we were anyway even in 2019-2020 coming off a very deep corporate cycle. So, it is fair to expect that in the years after that you would have a very benign kind of credit experience. In retail and SME, the portfolio has gotten severely tested by COVID and of course, we did see a higher NPL additions during that time. And so now from here on, we will have to see how the mix, the gross additions and recoveries and so on evolve and look at what kind of credit costs come through. But in terms of what we are sort of planning over the long term or what we are our tolerance levels, or what we are trying to design the business to, we would continue to look at that 20-odd percent of provisions to PPOP.

Sorry, what was your second question?

Nitin Agarwal — Motilal Oswal — Analyst

On the unsecured?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

Unsecured. No, so we, as you know, we have grown this portfolio primarily on the back of cross-sell to existing customers or through very strong partnerships like Amazon and by identifying sort of the correct profile, even if they are new to bank. And the credit performance of these portfolios have been quite good. And so we have no plans to look at any cap, et cetera as of now, because we don’t see anything in the credit trends to warrant that.

Nitin Agarwal — Motilal Oswal — Analyst

Sure. Thanks so much.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Ashish Sharma from ENAM AMC. Please, go ahead.

Ashish Sharma — ENAM AMC — Analyst

Yeah, thank you for the opportunity and congratulations to the team for a stellar set of numbers. Sir, two questions, one on the credit cost, so, we’ve seen that we have created another contingent provision in this quarter. But we’ve seen the peer bank sort of writing that the provision they made in relation to the COVID. So, sir, some color on as to — so I mean how we, how we see the credit cost, I mean given our strategy of sort of creating contingent provision?

And second question would be on the credit card portfolio, if you can sort of give some color on the revolver book. I mean, has it picked up? I mean that would be helpful, sir.

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, I think when we looked at this contingency provision on a prudent basis, clearly as you would have seen the numbers in terms of the net additions as well as the net provisions, the numbers are very low, but at the same time, there are, you know, potential headwinds in the environment, given what is happening on inflation and rates and potentially a sharp slowdown in growth in major economies and so on. So, that is why, given that although the current trends are benign, we looked at our portfolio and decided to create this add to our contingency buffer to strengthen the balance sheet, which is a key element of our strategic framework that Sandeep also spoke about. So that is how we looked at it. I think we’ll have to see how the credit, credit cost trajectory evolves in future. On the revolver, of course compared to pre-pandemic levels, revolver rates had come down and we hope that they would now start moving up, our spends also pickup. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you, Anindya.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Hardik Shah from Goldman Sachs. Please, go ahead.

Rahul Jain — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Yeah, thanks. This is Rahul here. Just a couple of questions. So, on slide 36, the rating-wise mix that you have given, is it predominantly for the entire corporate and the SME portfolio? I mean, just wanted to understand what means the swing from 36% in AA minus and above to 47%?

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

So, this is on the non-retail portfolio and as you see the A and above bracket has remained broadly stable. There would have been some upgrades from the A family to AA and above families. So, that is a movement that, that would keep happening. But broadly, we would focus on say 70% plus A and above — A minus and above.

Rahul Jain — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Understood, understood. And will it have sort of implication on yields also going forward in this portfolio?

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

Not really I think.

Rahul Jain — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Okay. Then going back to the provisioning it, of course much has been asked, but just wanted to understand the understanding behind. So, these are contingency provisions, right, which you have been building over the last two quarters, of course right direction but this is against the BB and minus portfolio, I mean BB and below rated portfolio or what portfolio this is being built against?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

No, it is a contingency provision you know looking at sort of risk markers across a very broad range of portfolios. And you know, as we said the continuing uncertainties in the environment both geopolitical and macro economical.

Rahul Jain — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Okay. Understood. And then just a small one on, can you talk about the revolver percentage in the credit card portfolio that we may have and also the EMI book?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

We have not really spoken about a specific percentage, Rahul.

Rahul Jain — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Okay and then just one final big picture question, so RBI has been — RBI has put out this vision document on payments in which they talk about UPI, credit on UPI plus linking the RuPay credit card to UPI. Any broad thoughts on how you all thinking about those? And does it sort of excite you about the credit on UPI, et cetera?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, we are always sort of excited about new innovations that take place in the payment system or the financial system. And I think we will participate in all of these, you know, within our sort of risk appetite. We already offer a Pay Later product, which is a credit line on UPI embedded in the sort of bank’s mobile app. And I think India has one of the probably the most evolved payment system in the world and we would keep looking at what business cases or use cases arise out of that.

Rahul Jain — Goldman Sachs — Analyst

Fair enough. That’s very helpful, Anindya. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Mahesh MB from Kotak Securities. Please, go ahead.

MB Mahesh — Kotak Securities — Analyst

Yeah. Hi. Just two questions. Anindya, how does the portfolio behave over the next, let’s say, two, three quarters in terms of yields, given the recent increase in the repo rating of [Indecipherable].

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, we have given the numbers Mahesh, 43% of the book is linked to repo, 69% is linked to — about 6% is linked to other external benchmarks and 21% [Phonetic] is linked to MCLR. So, our MCLR we have reset by 50 basis points at the end of May and June. Repo, as you know has moved up by 90 basis points and all these have sort of three months to one year reset periodicity. So that will play out over the next few quarters.

MB Mahesh — Kotak Securities — Analyst

Okay. In your assessment that the ability for a full pass-through is visible in the portfolio? Adjusted for the repayments and the fresh editions at the spreads, which might be different to what the portfolio is contracted at?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

I think for example, if you look at the repo linked portfolio, the mortgage portfolio, there as you know, the floating rate product that is, that is uniform in India has a lengthening of the EMI schedule, up to a certain level and there is only a smaller set of customers who would see an increase in the EMI. So, in the large, larger corporates, et cetera, I think they also have their own fair degree of resilience or ability to kind of refinance and so on. So, it should be — it should be manageable. But as I said it depends upon the pace and extent of these changes. So, we have to watch as we go along.

MB Mahesh — Kotak Securities — Analyst

Okay. Second question is that CCOD changes on the NPL side, I didn’t get this in case it was, it was answered. Was there any impact of it in the current quarter?

Anindya Banerjee — Group Chief Financial Officer

So, that was a clarification, which came in Q4 and there would have been some impact, but nothing that we have quantified for calling out in particular. I think we just have to adjust to it. There would be some impact and hopefully, that impact will trend down.

MB Mahesh — Kotak Securities — Analyst

Okay. Thanks, Anindya.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we take that as the last question for today. I now hand the conference over to the management for closing comments.

Sandeep Bakhshi — Managing Director & CEO

Thank you all very much for sparing time on a Saturday evening. Abhinek and I will be happy to take your calls as well. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of ICICI Bank that concludes this conference. We thank you all for joining us. And you may now disconnect your lines.

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