A 78 per cent drop in Yes Bank shares since August has left founder and former chief executive officer Rana Kapoor some $1 billion poorer.The Indian lender, which late Wednesday reported earnings that showed its capital buffers had weakened and bad loan ratio widened, plunged as much as 20 per cent on Thursday. That’s contributed to a drop in Kapoor’s net worth to $377 million from $1.4 billion on Aug. 20, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.Kapoor, 61, built Yes Bank into India’s fourth-largest private lender over the 15 years since he co-founded the firm in 2004, until the central bank forced him out amid a controversy over bad-debt accounting. New CEO Ravneet Gill , a Deutsche Bank AG veteran, is now grappling with the knock-on effects of a crisis among India’s shadow lenders, thanks to Yes Bank’s sizeable exposure to the cash-strapped industry.Kapoor owns just over 10 per cent of Yes Bank shares, including through his two holding companies, Yes Capital (India) Pvt and Morgan Credits Pvt. Describing the latest results as “far worse than we had anticipated,” Jefferies analysts led by Nilanjan Karfa cut their price target for the bank to 50 rupees from 80 rupees. Under Kapoor, total assets of the bank grew at a compound annual growth rate of 34 per cent in the 10 years through March 2018, outpacing its peers among Indian banks Yes Bank shares were trading 11 per cent lower at 12:10 p.m. on Thursday in Mumbai.

Source: Economic Times July 18, 2019 08:36 UTC