The bank disclosed that, on incremental sanctions since Mar-20, the new NPA creation is 0.35%. Furthermore, SMA-2 in the corporate book (45% of advances) is 0.1% and the restructured book has no large lumpy account (max single account exposure just Rs1.8bn). Recovery momentum is gaining traction with guidance for F23 at Rs320bn or ~4% of loan book. The bank needs to take additional 2.8% credit cost to mark down net NPL to 1%. This implies that credit cost normalization is likely one year out (2H24/ F25). However, given low net slippage, the market could well price that ahead of time