Finance Ministry to meet CEOs of state-owned banks to review Q1 performance on August 20

The finance ministry has called a meeting of heads of public sector banks (PSBs) on Wednesday to review the first-quarter financial performance.

The meeting is scheduled to be chaired by Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju.

The review meeting on August 20 with public sector banks to assess the performance of the first quarter of 2025-26, according to sources.

Led by State Bank of India (SBI), public sector banks, cumulatively, logged a record profit of ₹44,218 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal, with an 11% year-on-year growth.

All 12 public sector banks together made a profit of ₹39,974 crore in the June quarter of FY25. The increase in profit in absolute terms was ₹4,244 crore.

Market leader SBI alone contributed 43 per cent to the total earnings of ₹44,218 crore, as per the published numbers on stock exchanges.

SBI logged a net profit of ₹19,160 crore in Q1 FY26, 12 per cent higher than the same period of the previous fiscal. In terms of size and profits, the biggest lender in the nation still controls the public banking market.

In percentage terms, Chennai-based Indian Overseas Bank reported the highest net profit growth of 76% to ₹1,111 crore, followed by Punjab & Sind Bank with a 48 per cent rise to ₹269 crore.

During the quarter, all 12 public sector banks (PSBs) except Punjab National Bank (PNB) reported a decline in profit.

PNB reported a 48% fall in net profit to ₹1,675 crore against ₹3,252 crore in the year-ago period.

Central Bank of India recorded 32.8% growth in the June quarter net profit to ₹1,169 crore, Indian Bank posted 23.7% rise to ₹2,973 crore, and Bank of Maharashtra logged 23.2% improvement to ₹1,593 crore.