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SBICARD · FY2025 Q1

SBI Cards and Payment Services Limited analyst Q&A

2024-07-26
Moderator

Thank you very much. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. The first question comes from the line of Piran Engineer from CLSA. Please go ahead.

Piran EngineerCLSA

Firstly, I just wanted to understand what the levers are we can take to offset credit costs? So, I understand collection part of it but anything on the top line front, for example, increasing the revolver charge from 3.5% to 4%, something like that. So many things I understand are regulated like interchange, et cetera, you can't do much. But what are the levers we can take apart from, say, collections, et cetera, to offset the impact of credit cost?

Girish Budhiraja

The lever that you mentioned, which is interest rate with respect to revolvers, that specifically, we would not like to take at this point of time, take action in terms of increasing the interest rate because over a period of time, we have seen that good cu stomer revenue, is coming from instalment lending customer. So, if the customer takes instalment lending, gives us fee, gives us interest income, and does not default, that is a better way rather than getting a higher interest and we are already at 3.5% pe r month, which is almost 42% APR. So, increasing that is not a good idea. That is point one. Second thing is that, yes, there are other places where you can take actions. But these are more with respect to the fee income with where you are providing a service to the customer and the customer is utilising it. For example, we did that with respect to putting a fee on the rental side of it. We would be looking at certain set of fees over a period of time to defray some of that. However, we have to get the cred it cost in control. And t hat is what our M.D sir was saying is the first primary action. While from a revenue perspective, the action steps will continue to be taken.

Piran EngineerCLSA

Okay. Fair enough. Secondly, just trying to understand on your new underwriting measures. Now we've acquired 9 lakh new customers this quarter. Now can you just give us a sense, say, for example, how many are new to credit, how many are new to credit cards?

Girish Budhiraja

While we will give you specific breakup of how many are new to credit and new to credit cards, however, want to detail out that the interest of new customers is consistent. People are applying for the card. We have been more selective about this. 60% of the customers are carded customers, 40% customers are new to credit or new to credit card, but we acquire most of these customers only through our Banca.

Piran EngineerCLSA

Okay. The non-carded ones will be through our Banca channel?

Abhijit Chakravorty

Correct, So, new to credit and new to credit card is through Banca channel.

Abhijit Chakravorty

We have data with us and our portfolio, we have seen that when we onboard a customer, even an NTC or a customer having zero active trade lines at the time of on-boarding, over a period of time, and we have analysed our written off portfolio, we find that at the time of write -off, they carry a minimum of 1 to 5 going up to 10 trade lines. So, one is the financial position, how many trade lines were there, minimal, Bureau score, Prime, all taken together onboarding not an issue, but post onboarding the behaviour changes.

Piran EngineerCLSA

Okay. And then in such a case, could this be a possibility? I don't know if it will be an appeal to the customer or not, but in the terms and conditions you have that if that customer takes another credit card, then his limit will be reduced by, whatever, 25%, 40%, something like -- can we have a rule -based engine out here, which makes the credit exposure for you more flexible depending on the leverage of the customer which is somewhat similar to what microfinance companies are doing in a way. Could something like that be a possibility because there does not seem to be an end in sight for the credit cost problem for the industry?

Girish Budhiraja

You're right, Piran. What is done is that first of all, if we have given a card to the customer and if there is a second financial institution, which wants to give a card or a loan, they should be looking at debt to income and already whatever has been given to the customer. We also continue to monitor even, let's say, after years customer has come to us over a period of time, if more trade lines are getting added, more debt is getting taken. And you're right, action is taken. We believe that the customer debt repayment capacity keeps going down. And hence, all the credit line decreases, which has been done over a period of time. The good part is after last September, October, RBI's decision of increasing capital adequacy, there were players who were not looking at some of these metrics. Now all the large banks and all the large institutions look at that, and this problem should not be continuing over a period of time. This is going to get addressed. So that is where we are at this point of time. It is monitored continuously. Models are being run on a regular basis, which is the regular scorecard for your portfolio management. And basis that, if you see a high risk or movement of scores, immediate action is being taken rather than waiting for the default to occur.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Mahrukh Adajania from Nuvama. Please go ahead.

Mahrukh AdajaniaNuvama

So, in the last con call we had discussed that there are no cohorts in terms of vintage that are contributing to higher delinquencies of costs. They are kind of cohort of vintage diagnostic. So, is it that customers or process cohorts are multi -leveraging as in that even customers that you may have on-boarded say 1 year or 1.5 years ago, is it happening across cohorts? And is the re culture really deteriorating or how do we look at it?

Abhijit Chakravorty

We find that the delinquency is moving across the segment. There is still no cohort identifiable. While if we talk about vintage, we have seen accounts which have been doing well for last 4 to 5 years also suddenly become delinquent. And the behaviour part is very unique. Once this account becomes delinquent, PDD, there, not a single penny comes. And that's when we go for collection efforts, we largely find that there has been a lifetime event that has happened. That is one. Another is that, if you leave aside vintage, we have found the delinquencies going across salary, going across self -employed, going across tiers of cities. So, we have not found any specific behavior happening with any specific cohort that could have led us to do some analysis and introduce certain actions. Having said that, only one indication that was found earlier last year and we have implemented was a geography -based delinquency pattern. When we found that a specific geography was largely behaving abnormally, we took actions, and we stopped sourcing from those geographies based on the pincode identification. Except that, we have not largely found any specific cohort, the delinquency is more on the customer behavior or the inability to pay.

Mahrukh AdajaniaNuvama

Got it. And in terms of opex where -- how long do you see the remaining subdued?

Rashmi Mohanty

So, the opex is lower this quarter because of the lower corporate spends and also because of the lower card acquisition compared to previous quarter. As we build our corporate card spend s business again and the cards acquisition come back to the range of a million cards a quarter. This should as we've been saying earlier stabilize around th e mid-50s level. Obviously, the seasonality is there depending upon the month when we run the campaig ns when the opex will be high.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Rohan Mandora from Equirus Securities. Please go ahead.

Rohan MandoraEquirus Securities

I just wanted to understand, based on the bureau scrub that we have been doing for the existing customers, what is the watch list pool of customers that we have identified based on the current portfolio where we can potentially expect some stairs or some action that we would like to take?

Nandini Malhotra

Basically, we do the regular bureau scrub. We also subscribe to bureau triggers. So, we get real- time update on the customer situation and test. So, you're right, we do create a kind of a watch list basis our scorecard and what we've seen. And we take actions accordingly.

Rohan MandoraEquirus Securities

What I wanted to understand was, if you can give some indication of what could be the poll size to get a flavour on how long can this credit cost continue?

Nandini Malhotra

We can't tell you the number. The thing is that it is a regular action. It is conducted as soon as we get the trigger. So , it is as real time as we can do it. But of course, the good part is that we do see an impact in terms of the inflow delinquency has stabilized. In fact, it has gone down marginally. So, we are going to continue this activity.

Abhijit Chakravorty

That is something we would like not to speculate upon. But what we can tell you i s that the reduction of limits is around 25% of their limits.

Girish Budhiraja

And the average limit has been around close to INR1 lakh. So, you can estimate.

Rohan MandoraEquirus Securities

Sure. Because I was trying to understand when we are reducing the limits on these customers, because it would have been in watch list. So, if there were no balances which were worth reducing. Like 25% reduction does not impact the balances for these customers, right? When is it outstanding? So just want to stand the nature of this reduction. Like how -- because the earlier comment that management has given that the delinquencies that we are seeing the customers for 4 to 5 years, they were performing well and certainly, the default and it's difficult to recover anything. So just trying to understand the se actions that we are taking to cut the limits or anything else like how do we get ourselves assured that this will have some impact in terms of reduced delinquencies incrementally?

Abhijit Chakravorty

Yes. So how it works is that these customers who are getting identified as high risk or on a watch list definitely, these customers would have utilized their limits. Any customer who has not utilized the limits will not be on the watch list. we categorize them, we wait for that opportunity when there is a headroom available. And then we reduce the limits at the appropriate time. So, we have an operational mechanism for that. So, we do it. Now does it prevent the customer from becoming delinquent. No. If some of them, not all, some of them do become delinquent, then at least there will be creating a loss less 25% or more the limit that has been cut. That is the best option. That is the best step that can be taken by us, considering that we are already committed to the limit. The limit has been utilized. We wait for an opportunity to reduce that limit. And if the account becomes delinquent and does not pay at all, somewhere we have cut our losses.

Rohan MandoraEquirus Securities

Sure. And sir lastly if you look at the share of interest earning assets despite all the efforts that we are taking to increase the share of term lending, it has not moved up in the last 1 year. So, should we continue to expect that it would remain at the similar level?

Girish Budhiraja

The revolver is now stable at 24 and as we have stated earlier if it stays between 23, 24, 25 it is a great thing at this point of time. Second thing is on the assets , because our instalment asset whatever is customer spends and converts into instalment is usually runs off between 9 to 12 months and more instalment asset is getting filled and we are seeing that growth. This as a percentage share good mix would be 38%, 39%. Best case scenario, it can reach up to 40%. 38% to 40% is the range that we foresee in the next 3 to 4 quarters.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Roshan Chutkey from ICICI Prudential Mutual Funds. Please go ahead.

Roshan ChutkeyICICI Prudential Mutual Funds

Just wanted to understand if you can talk about the delinquency number in terms of number of accounts, how has that moved over the past 4 quarters. Just wanted to understand whether -- is it that there are some chronic cases and the amounts in these chronic cases are increasing or you can ultimately talk about the bounce rates as well. How are the bounce rates doing? And is the bounce rate that you are seeing stable maybe those numbers?

Shantanu Srivastava

I’ll take that one. The ECL model consumes data over a long period of time. And this time compared to the previous quarter, we've seen for all 3 stages 1, 2, 3, the rates have come down and this is driven by long -term 8 quarter or thereabouts worth of data . Certain elements of the model are refreshed on a quarterly basis. And one quarter data then gets added on and another quarter’s data from previous 2 years gets dropped off. And that is what is causing the change in the ECL rates. This is in line with the IndAS guidelines, and this model is reviewed annually by an external expert and is audited by multiple auditors. So, the model itself is sound. And we've also done a back testing of the model and that satisfies our auditors and regula tors. So that's on the model.

Roshan ChutkeyICICI Prudential Mutual Funds

Okay. How about your guidance I mean in December quarter I remember distinctly you said two quarters and things should be all. Where are we now?

Abhijit Chakravorty

So, we did say that we were anticipating for two quarters. But then look at the market, the way the market has behaved. What happens is that we create a watch list, we look for the trends. We find that there will be certain accounts which may have a tendency to flow. Now what happens to the certain accounts which further get impacted out of those watch lists i tself and add to the delinquency. While our expectations and our actions are based on our models, everything is an indicator. We can only expect the best coming out of the customer behavior. Having a larger impact in the ecosystem if some more customers are unable to pay. This will add to the delinquency.

Roshan ChutkeyICICI Prudential Mutual Funds

Understood. That’s all from my side.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Shweta from Elara Capital. Please go ahead. Shweta your line is unmated please proceed with your question.

Shweta Daptardar

Okay. So, I have two questions. First question. Sir, you mentioned that you have added 9 lakh - odd customers or card additions this particular quarter. You also mentioned that we have been selective, and the number of new card additions are also declining each quarter. But we saw that last quarter, we reduced limits for 1.5 lakh customers. And this quarter, in the past 3 months, like you mentioned in your opening remarks, that number has gone up to 5 lakhs. So, what were the triggers or observations or signals that you observed the past 3 months that suddenly, from 1.5 lakh, this number has to go to 5 lakhs despite the fact that your new car additions incrementally have been coming down. You also mentioned vintage customers having -- and still showing slightly good behavior and also you are being selective. That's my first question.

Nandini Malhotra

So basically, we have been doing limit decreases for our existing portfolio and not new vintages. In the new vintages, we see the performance is satisfactory. So, it's not that we are actually onboarding the customer and over a short period of time reducing the limit at some of the places. For our existing portfolio, like we had mentioned earlier, we have early warning system which includes looking at the bureau triggers updated, looking at repayment with us. Over time, we have defined, and we have created predictive models looking at further attributes to the customer with us could be his spending pattern etc basis which we have identified a watch list, which we would like to take action earlier. We're also taking actions early compared to the last quarter. And the reason behind that is that we would like to address this problem early on in this tranche of year itself.

Shweta Daptardar

Okay. Sir, just a related question, sir, how do we perceive this 8.5% credit cost going ahead. So basically, we are just trying to figure out trend or any sort of parameter or factor which will help us forecast what we could foresee going forward? So, what could be that parameter o r what could be that, say, maybe new account addition come down? Or this reduced limit towards customers that number? I mean, what is it that we should be factoring into sort of get some sense on credit cost movement ahead?

Abhijit Chakravorty

The credit costs cannot be related to the new accounts. New accounts acquisition strategy has been formed and will continue. Based on our experience and whatever actions we have taken on the acquisition front, which is already on record, we have stated how we have stopped sourcing from certain geographies. As far as the credit cost is concerned as we stated that we had expected based on our own analysis and the behaviour of the customers on-us off-us, trade lines all taken together, when we have created and categorize them. We have expected certain delinquency patterns. Now what happens is that over a period of time, we are looking at overall impact of their total borrowing and the lifetime e vents and those taken together. There is an incremental impact which is increasing the customers. So somewhere while we definitely have our own analysis and expectations, that get delayed by the environmental impact on some larger accounts. So, unless the ecosystem improves further, somewhere these incremental additions, we are seeing to continue for a shorter period.

Moderator

The next question is from the line of Jignesh Shial from Incred Research. Please go ahead.

Jignesh ShialInCred Research

Yes. Just two questions quickly. One since you indicated that 60% of your customers are existing credit customers and 40% is non credit -- new to credit or non -card holders and all. So where are basica lly we are seeing more of defaults happening from 60 or 40 just rough cut? And secondly, this existing credit card customers, as you say that balance what is basically coming from Banca Channel. So how the sourcing happens for the earlier the card customers and is it through more -- through internally or externally or externally, is it how the commission fixer plays out? Because we have to understand how the occurrence or the basically issuances are happening. So, these would be my two questions.

Nandini Malhotra

So, with respect to the sourcing from the Banca channel, I'll take your second question first. In the Banca channel, we basically look at the savings account and their relationship with the bank, and basis that we give them a credit facility. Of course, we have our score cards in place for new to credit and new to credit card customers. And we look at the cash flow information and basis that, we basically take an underwriting decision. So, that is on the Banca channel. On the carded customers, they can come from the open market channel or Banca channel. We have specific scorecards for existing carded customers, where we take into account their card behaviour outside and accordingly, we take a decision. Do you want to know the process?

Jignesh ShialInCred Research

Understood. This is really helpful. But for the 60 what will be the channels from which you're sourcing; 40 I am assuming is fully Banca, majorly Banca. So, this 60 will be then through what sources how much will be Banca, how much will be others and all, can you give us some colour on that?

Girish Budhiraja

So, 60 out of that 6 0% close to 10 would be Banca balance close to 45 to 50 would be open market, in open market, out of that close to around 40% would be our co-brand partners we work with -- there are a lot of co -brand partners that we work with. We have digital acquisitions through Paytm. We have Reliance as our co-brand partner where we position our people. So, on the Reliance stores that is there. Some 30%-40% comes from our own stores and kiosks that we put up in the market. So, it is different sources that it comes.

Jignesh ShialInCred Research

Understood. And the default should be from 60 -40, how the default should be playing out not the exact numbers?

Jignesh ShialInCred Research

Okay. the new to credit and old credit you are seeing the default across everyone the same.

Abhijit Chakravorty

Yes. Defaults are spread around as I said it does not indicate any particular group or cohort where it is spread around.

Jignesh ShialInCred Research

Understood. That’s quite helpful. Thank you so much.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Puneet from Macquarie. Please go ahead.

Puneet

Sir, just on the opex bit I understand you said it's low on e because of lower card additions and your corporate spends have also been low. Do you expect this to recover going forward?

Abhijit Chakravorty

Yes. Corporate spends we expect to recover. As we stated in our last call also that this quarter, we are expecting it to go up. And Q3 we expect it to be on close to original numbers, but we expect it to recover and hence the opex would increase accordingly.

Puneet

Okay. And another thing your last quarter I remember your cr edit cost guidance was around 7 percentage and on the current trends that you're seeing would you revise it or what do you expect any comment on that?

Puneet

That’s it from my side. Thank you so much.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Ajit Kumar from Nomura. Please go ahead.

Ajit KumarNomura

Thanks for the opportunity. Just wanted to check on your ECL coverage and method to calculate it. If you look at a stage-wise PCR on Stage 1 and Stage 2 asset coverage has been coming down from past few quarters, even on a stage 3 our coverage has come down in this quarter versus last quarter. So why is coverage going down especially on the Stage 1 and 2 assets when it has been going up from a fairly long period of time like from last 8 to 9 quarters. And will you consider ramping up coverage ratios going forward?

Shantanu Srivastava

The ECL model consumes data it over a long period of time. And this time compared to the previous quarter, we've seen for all 3 stages 1, 2, 3, the rates have come down and this is driven by a long-term 8 quarter or thereabouts worth of data. Certain elements of the model refresh on a quarterly basis. And one quarter data then gets added on and another quarter data from previous 2 years gets dropped off. That is what is causing the change in the ECL rates. This is in line with the IndAS guidelines, and this model is reviewed annually by an external expert and is audited by multiple auditors. So, the model itself is sound. And we've also done a back testing of the model and that satisfies our auditors and regulators. So that's on the model.

Ajit KumarNomura

Sure. That’s it from my side. Thank you.

Moderator

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

MB. MaheshKotak Securities

Just one question. When are you seeing the recovery efforts on the ground, and you see borrowers with multiple defaults on the bureau is how easy or difficult has been to put SBI Cards as a first point of repayment from a customer's perspective?

Abhijit Chakravorty

So how does one predict? So, what do we do it? We try to find out as to the best of the possibilities of trying to find the source of income if any. If we try to -- if we get that and if we find a pattern on that then definitely, we identify and we try to be there on the doorstep on the date of the cash flow. But that is for the customers who are going to pay. What we are finding is that customers are unable to pay at all . In case of multiple delinquencies also , if we look at the bureau data, we find that a high percentage of our deli nquent customers are off -us delinquent too. So, it's not a question of how I get my payment first. The fellow doesn't have money to pay. And wherever there are cash flows available, wherever we find that there is a possibility of payment we have a promise to pay scenario, we are there on the doorstep on the cash flow. So, we do have those mechanisms in our collection efficiency. But as I said there are customers who are beyond that. MB. Mahesh Okay. And one clarification on this incrementally are you seeing the slightly larger ticket size cards also showing delinquency or there are no trends in that as well?

Abhijit Chakravorty

I saw this discussion around two, three quarters back or also in the domain that the delinquencies probably were happening in the low-ticket ones. So, we stated earlier also that we found it spread across, and we still find it spread across. We find delinquencies at the lower limits as well as the mid. When we say higher limits say going up to say INR3 lakh to INR4 lakhs also.

MB. MaheshKotak Securities

And there's no change in this trend?

Abhijit Chakravorty

No. It's absolutely as per our analysis, as per our reverse feedback from the ground based on the collection team’s feedback. We find that this has more to do with the inability to pay, irrespective of the vintage or the limit I mean, it's happening across the portfolio.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Yash Agrawal from UBS. Please go ahead.

Vishal

Vishal here. Thanks for the opportunity. See two questions from my side. One you yourself indicated that there is more default in the industry and the segment is facing some stress. Now how comfortable you are growing your book at 20% plus if you are seeing this stress in the industry? That's question first?

Girish Budhiraja

Yes. You're right. We are -- be careful while growing the book. So, if you have noticed, we have already stated that we are not looking at increasing revolve. We are not increasing the revolver book. The book which is getting increased is the instalment le nding book where the customer has already spent on the card which we have always stated that is a very good book that we have built. Second thing is if you look at th e number of customers or the CIF growth t hat is in the range of around close to 11% or so. Asset growth is more. So, we are not looking at adding more customers and growing from those more customers. We are looking at our existing customers and trying to get more engagement with those customers and building the book there. So, these are the two things that we are doing.

Vishal

Should we not expect like the receivable growth to slow down there in the near term?

Vishal

Basically, your loan book. Should we not expect it to slow down to more like mid -teens also if you're trying to be conservative here?

Girish Budhiraja

So we have always stated, in fact even in earlier calls we have also stated that we expect the card growth to be around 15% to 17% and another 5% to 7% coming from our existing card customer -- when you're looking at spend growth from a spend per account usually between 20% to 23% is the spend growth that we have always been stating. And the asset growth lags that by a bit. So around anywhere between 15% to 18% is the asset growth. So, we will continue to deliver those growth numbers and t hat is what we have indicated. The only thing is that we are looking at delivering these growth numbers from low -risk segment categories spends which are more converted into instalment lending because they give us interest and the credit cost also has to be monitored accordingly.

Vishal

Okay. And the second question is actually on the Banca or SBI channel. Now when I look at your delinquency it's basically 19%, 20% lower for SBI customers, but that also appears pretty high when we look at the SBI data. SBI has been reporting very good asset quality even on the unsecured segment. So how are you getting this adverse selection from their book? So, what is going wrong there?

Abhijit Chakravorty

We can see card behavior will be slightly different from an unsecured loan behaviour, number one. Another thing is that for SBI every unsecured loan may not be an NTC for them. And as I said, not only SBI but across the industry if you look at the unsecured loans specific ally the personal loan segment, they will definitely be doing better even from interstate between the bank itself wherever the card business is part of the bank b etween the same bank the personal loans will be behaving better than the cards . So, you yourself can analyze it and you will see the difference.

Vishal

Yes, the gap is generally lesser, but that’s okay. Thank you. All the best.

Moderator

Thank you. The next question is from the line of Krishnan ASV from HDFC Securities. Please go ahead.

Krishnan ASVHDFC Securities

So, this is partly continuing from what the previous two que ries there by both Vishal and M B. Are we reaching a stage now where you necessarily need to prioritize asset quality stability over the growth. Is it reaching a stage where it is becoming difficult to manage both because that's the perception that now seems to have, I mean, given the swing purely in terms of our inability to manage the credit cost. I mean these are getting elevated almost in the quarter. So, if you did take the kind o f product actions and interventions that you mentioned, it's very difficult to imagine why this should continue to stay elevated. Why the credit cost should continue to stay almost record highs almost every quarter, right? And plus, we are still saying it will remain between 7% and 8%. It's not like a onetime -- so there is obviously something with the behavior of customers, which I understand. But does that necessarily mean that now you need to take a step back to take a pause, as maybe prioritize quality and stability because I'm sure the regulator is also looking at these things. We don't want to give an impression to the regulator that's becoming difficult to manage asset quality, right?

Abhijit Chakravorty

I will not exactly agree with you. Asset quality can be a cyclical event also. While asset quality will need to be managed, it doesn't mean that one has to fold and hold up the shop and not do business at all. But it is definitely important how do we do bu siness, what business do we do? So, when we do the new business, new acquisitions, expand our loan book, how we do it is more important. So that's what we have been doing, and we'll continue to do that. Simultaneously, work on the delinquencies, work on th e credit cost. That is a separate thing to be handled and we will continue to handle that, and the business will continue the way it is. There is no stepping back.

Krishnan ASVHDFC Securities

Like I mean the only reason I'm probably harping upon this is -- we have gone from about 6% credit cost nearly 2 years back. I'm sure that itself was a bit elevated at the time. We have been actually doing a lot of these portfolio intervention. Despite that these trade costs are not coming off. I mean, I understand what you're saying that there is a system wide issue around some of these things and you can’t be oblivious to that, you can’t be immune to that completely. But my only point was does it reach a stage where you then say okay fine instead of us trying to manage both the engines now? Can w e focus on one over the other a nd you're saying that's not necessarily yet?

Abhijit Chakravorty

So, as I stated I already made myself very clear. And another thing is we have been -- we did not start the portfolio actions 2 years back. We started doing it during last financial year when the signal started coming off. It's not that for 2 years we have been doing por tfolio actions and then we are at this stage. The delinquency started somewhere previous financial year and they have continued an overflow to this financial year also and somewhere we find that we are not the only one to have seen this kind of a behavior . Now my data is in public ; standalone data is available. So that's why I'm subjected to more scrutiny, b ut beyond that it doesn't mean that I should not be doing business. I will be doing good , prudent, good business, continue to do business while working on the collections and recovery efficiencies also.

Krishnan ASVHDFC Securities

Understood. So, I completely take your point. These credit card delinquencies are beginning to show up in a lot of other lenders. So, you are obviously not alone there. I mean I take your point.

Moderator

Mr. Krishnan, may we request you return to the question queue for any follow-up questions. The next question is from the line of Hardik Shah from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Hardik ShahGoldman Sachs

I have only one question which is can you explain how this index 30 plus delinquency are computed? Just wanted to get some sense.

Shantanu Srivastava

The indexed delinquencies are points of time indexation. So, for example if you look at the chart on the bottom left which is our open market to SBI sourcing, the overall number is taken as one and the relative difference of SBI to that number is then indexed. Likewise for open market. So, in this example when it says 1.07 that means the open market channel is 7% more than the overall average and the SBI channel is 19% better.

Moderator

Thank you. W e will take the last question fr om the line of Shubhranshu Mishra from PhillipCapital. Please go ahead.

Shubhranshu MishraPhillip Capital

Hi Girish. Thanks for this opportunity. Two questions the first one is what the treatment of GST recovery is. Do we add GST to the principal outstanding on the NPA account or we excluded that is 1 st. And what is the NUNP as of this quarter versus last quarter this year -- sorry this quarter last year?

Girish Budhiraja

So, I'll answer the NUNP question first. So, NUNP numbers now after the RBI guidelines of 37 days in active you have to close is almost nil. Those numbers which used to be at one point of time in the industry with pre-card floating around very high with this RBI guideline and we are charging fee base card that's hardly anything. What we see is that almost close to anywhere between 95% to 97% of the cards we are able to, within 37 days, get them active in one way or the other and engage with us. So NUNP problem after last MDC circular is not there.

Rashmi Mohanty

So, Shubhranshu on any account there is a certain hierarchy that we follow whatever amount that we collect from the customer get applied in a certain hierarchy. And of course, the statutory payments are definitely prioritized over the other payments.

Shubhranshu MishraPhillip Capital

So, do we add the GST to the principal plus the fees that we charge, how do we -- what would be if I ask for GST?

Rashmi Mohanty

Yes absolutely. When we calculate the total outstanding all of the dues including the statu tory dues, interest payment et c is calculated. And then based on whatever we recover from the customer the application is made as per the hierarchy.

Girish Budhiraja

As per the latest regulation the minimum amount due, full GST is included in that.

Shubhranshu MishraPhillip Capital

Understood. And if I could just squeeze in one last question. What percentage of our customers pay MAD on a quarterly basis?

Girish Budhiraja

So, Shubranshu we have not declared that number whereas what you can look at is at almost 24% of our assets is a revolving asset wherein the customer pays between 5% to 100% not 100%, but 5% to 100% and usually the revolving balance per customer is usually 2x to 2.5x of a normal balance. So, if you calculate you will get the numbers.

Shubhranshu MishraPhillip Capital

Thank you. This was very helpful. Best of luck for the future quarters.

Moderator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we would take that as a last question for today. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Abhijit Chakravorty for closing comments.

Abhijit Chakravorty

Yes. Thank you everyone for being with us and having the fruitful discussion. We have experienced a good positive start for FY’25 with the first quarter. SBI Card continues with its journey of achieving sustainable and profitable growth. SBI Card is committed to the highest standards of governance, ethics, and integrity for ensuring business sustainability. I would like to share my gratitude towards our shareholders, investors and business partners for their continued trust and support to SBI Card. Thank you!

Moderator

On behalf of SBI Cards and Payment Services Limited, that concludes this conference. Thank you for joining us, and you may now disconnect your lines.