Loan growth to stay robust; Overweight Indonesian banks
BI issued 23 new policies in Dec-10 with an aim to enhance monetary stability and further support economic growth (through increased banking sector intermediaries). Key highlights of the new policies are higher FX reserve requirements and limiting offshore short-term borrowings to 30% of capital; which will be partially offset with reduction in risk-weighting for mortgage and micro loans. We believe these changes will not derail loan growth and stay Overweight on the Indonesian banking sector with BBNI, BMRI and BBCA as our top picks.
Higher FX reserves only take up US$2.6bn of excess liquidity
The new policies will require banks to increase FX deposit reserve requirement (RR) from 1% to 5% in March 2011 and then to 8% in June 2011. As of October 2010, system FX deposit was Rp327tr (representing approximately 15% of total deposits in the system). With an RR of 8%, BI will absorb an additional excess liquidity of approximately Rp23tr (approx. US$2.6bn). Given the FX-based LDR of 71% and low FX loan portion (as of October 2010, FX loans accounted for just 15% of total loans in the system), overall loan growth should stay on track. Robust loan demand and intense lending competition should translate into a loan growth of more than 20% pa. Impact on earnings too should be muted (less than 1% of our existing earnings projections for 2011), given that in most cases excess FX liquidity is resulting in yields close to zero (i.e. Indonesian banks are already running negative carry for excess FX liquidity).
Reduction in risk-weighting for micro loans and mortgages
Another key change is the reduction in risk-weighting for 1) micro loans from 85% to 75%, and 2) mortgages from 40% to 35%. We estimate this would raise CAR for major banks by approximately 19bps from 14.1% to 14.3%. Within the sector, the biggest beneficiaries would be 1) BBTN (+104bps to 18.0%), 2) BJBR (+60bps to 25.4%), 3) BBRI (+40bps to 13.9%), and 4) BDMN (+26bps to 16.7%).
Limiting offshore short-term debt
Another key change relates to limiting offshore short-term debt to 30% of the banks’ capital. In general, we see that most banks already have offshore ST debts below the 30% limit. As such, this should not affect banks’ funding fundamentals.
Top picks are BBNI, BMRI and BBCA; risks: regulatory, macroeconomic
We derive our target prices based on the Gordon Growth model – see inside for details. Key risks to the sector are regulatory changes and macroeconomic downturns.
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