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ICICI Bank’s main business is commercial banking for individuals and businesses in India. Customers borrow to buy homes, meet personal needs or finance business operations, and pay the bank interest. Customer deposits supply most of its domestic funding; it also holds interest-earning securities. Interest is the group’s largest source of income. The bank earns additional fees for processing loans, handling payments and helping companies manage cash and trade transactions. Retail lending makes up the larger part of its loan book and is mostly secured by collateral.
Insurance is another substantial source of income. Its subsidiaries ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company and ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company collect premiums from policyholders in return for insurance coverage and pay claims. The bank also earns commissions for distributing their policies, while other subsidiaries earn investment-management and securities-brokerage fees.
The banking business depends on retaining deposits, borrowers repaying and the gap between lending returns and funding costs. It is heavily tied to India’s economy. Reserve Bank of India rules require it to direct lending toward priority sectors such as agriculture and small enterprises and to maintain capital, cash reserves and liquid assets. Lending shortfalls can require certificate purchases or investments in lower-return government schemes, limiting how freely it can deploy its funds.
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ICICI Bank’s results chiefly depend on Indian credit growth, deposit funding costs and borrowers’ ability to repay, with additional earnings exposure through ICICI Prudential Life and ICICI Lombard.
HDFC Bank competes with ICICI Bank for Indian households’ deposits, mortgages and cards, and for businesses’ loans and payment and cash-management services. Watch HDFC Bank’s deposit growth and funding costs for signs of the competition ICICI Bank faces to fund its lending.
Prudential and ICICI Bank share in the earnings of jointly owned Indian businesses that sell life insurance to policyholders and manage clients’ investments. Watch ICICI Prudential Life’s expected future profit from newly sold policies—its value of new business—and ICICI Prudential Asset Management’s net profit for a read on ICICI Bank’s earnings beyond banking.
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