PNB CEO sees no erosion in asset quality post merger

“Everything relating to the merger is going on smoothly. We don’t foresee any challenges. Other banks have done it successfully and we can repeat that. The asset quality of PNB and the merging banks will not at all suffer rather it will strengthen as they will have a collective bargaining and negotiating power with the defaulters,” said Sunil Mehta, MD-CEO, PNB.

“In terms of roadmap, we have already created inter-bank committees which are interacting with each other on the best processes, products and systems to be adopted for each bank and the best will selected for a win-win situation for the customer. Similarly the best practices among the HR will be adopted for the staff.” The merged entity will be operational from April 2020. Under the consolidation, the three banks will be merged into one entity to make the second-largest PSB with a business of Rs 17.95 lakh cr and 11,437 branches. The three banks got a capital infusion of Rs 16,000 crore.