Northern Arc Q2FY27 PAT Rises 42% YoY to ₹129 Crore
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3rd Nov 2026
Key Financial Performance - Q2FY27
Income Statement Highlights (INR crore):
- Interest income: ₹711 crore (33% YoY growth, 9% QoQ growth)
- Interest expense: ₹286 crore (36% YoY growth, 10% QoQ growth)
- Net Interest Income: ₹425 crore (32% YoY growth, 8% QoQ growth)
- Fee & Other Income: ₹28 crore (34% YoY growth, 29% QoQ growth)
- Net Revenue: ₹453 crore (32% YoY growth, 9% QoQ growth)
- Employee Costs: ₹104 crore (24% YoY growth, 13% QoQ growth)
- Operating Costs: ₹63 crore (46% YoY growth, 4% QoQ growth)
- Total Operating Costs: ₹167 crore (32% YoY growth, 9% QoQ growth)
- Pre-Provision Operating Profit (PPoP): ₹286 crore (32% YoY growth, 9% QoQ growth)
- Credit Costs: ₹117 crore (27% YoY growth, 6% QoQ growth)
- Profit/(Loss) on Associates: ₹4 crore (compared to ₹(3) crore in Q2FY26)
- Profit before tax: ₹173 crore (43% YoY growth, 14% QoQ growth)
- Tax expense: ₹44 crore (46% YoY growth, 13% QoQ growth)
- Profit after tax: ₹129 crore (42% YoY growth, 14% QoQ growth)
- Profit after tax (excluding NCI): ₹129 crore (41% YoY growth, 13% QoQ growth)
H1FY27 Performance (INR crore):
- Interest income: ₹1,366 crore (31% YoY growth)
- Net Revenue: ₹869 crore (30% YoY growth)
- Profit after tax: ₹244 crore (44% YoY growth)
Assets Under Management (AUM):
- Total AUM: ₹19,003 crore as of September 30, 2026
- Intermediate Retail: ₹6,501 crore
- MSME: ₹4,240 crore
- Consumer: ₹6,912 crore
- Rural: ₹1,350 crore
Asset Quality Metrics
NNPA (%) by Segment:
- Intermediate Retail: 0.3% (from 0.2% in Jun-26)
- MSME: 1.7% (from 1.8% in Jun-26)
- Consumer: 0.1% (stable)
- Rural: 0.01% (stable)
- Total: 0.5% (stable)
Credit Cost by Segment (H1FY27):
- Intermediate Retail: 1.0%
- MSME: 2.9%
- Consumer: 3.8%
- Rural: 4.0%
- Total: 2.6%
Business Segment Performance
Direct to Customer Lending:
- D2C AUM increased to 66% of total portfolio
- MSME AUM showed sustained growth momentum through phygital model
- Consumer Finance: 96% of customers have bureau score of 700 & above
- Rural Finance: Assets under Management grew by 12% QoQ
Credit Solutions:
- Fee-based businesses generated ₹152 crore in revenue
- IR lending balance sheet used to expand credit offerings for partners
Balance Sheet Position (INR crore as of Sep'26)
Assets:
- Cash and bank balances: ₹457 crore
- Loans: ₹14,804 crore
- Investments: ₹3,049 crore
- Other financial assets: ₹620 crore
- Non-financial assets: ₹233 crore
- Total assets: ₹19,163 crore
Liabilities and Equity:
- Borrowings & Debt Securities: ₹14,107 crore
- Other financial liabilities: ₹741 crore
- Other non-financial liabilities: ₹94 crore
- Equity: ₹4,213 crore
- Non-controlling interest: ₹8 crore
- Total liabilities and equity: ₹19,163 crore
Quarterly Averages:
- Quarterly Average earning Assets: ₹16,722 crore
- Quarterly Average total assets: ₹17,695 crore
Technology and Operations
- nPOS digital lending proprietary platform deployed across lending cycles
- 95% digital collections with 400+ collection field team
- 100% NACH & UPI Mandate Availability
Management and Governance
Board of Directors:
- Chairman & Non-Executive Independent Director (former MD & CEO, Bank of Baroda)
- Mr. Ashish Mehrotra (Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, former MD & CEO, Max Bupa Health Insurance)
- Ms. Anuradha Rao (Non-Executive Non-Independent Director, former MD & CEO SBI Funds Management)
- Mr. Ashutosh Arvind Pednekar (Non-Executive Independent Director, Practicing Chartered Accountant)
- Mr. Sandeep Dhar (Non-Executive Independent Director)
- Mr. Michael Jude Fernandes (Non-Executive Nominee Director, Co-lead Leapfrog Investments)
- Mr. Vijay Chakravarthi (Non-Executive Nominee Director, former Executive Director, Standard Chartered Bank)
- Ms. Vidya Krishnan (Non-Executive Independent Director, former Deputy MD – IT with State Bank of India)
Leadership Team:
- Pardhasaradhi Rallabandi (Group Risk Officer & Governance Head)
- Atul Tibrewal (Chief Financial Officer)
- Saurabh Jaywant (Chief Legal Officer)
- Gaurav Mehrotra (Chief Technology Officer)
- Jagadish Babu Ramadugu (Managing Director & CEO - Pragati)
- Amit Mandhanya (Chief Business Officer – Digital Lending)
- Sandeep Singh (Head – Intermediate Retail)
- Priyashis Das (Chief Executive Officer – Northern Arc Securities)
- Bhavdeep Bhatt (Head - Arc Investment Managers)
- Moushumi Mandal (Chief People Officer)