Authored by: CA Punit Khandelwal & CA Sunit Khandelwal
Assisted by: CA Gargi Gupta
Foreword
The RBI had issued a circular in February 2016 requiring banks to implement Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) and prepare standalone and consolidated Ind AS financial statements with effect from 1 April 2018. However, the RBI in its press release issued on 5 April 2018 deferred the applicability of Ind AS by one year (i.e. 1 April 2019) for Scheduled Commercial Banks. Further, RBI in a circular issued on 22 March 2019 deferred the implementation of Ind AS till further notice.
Similarly, implementation of Ind AS in the Insurance sector has also been deferred, and IRDAI shall decide the date of application after the finalisation of IFRS 17 by IASB (IRDAI/F&A/CIR/ACTS/023/01/2020 Date: 21 January 2020).
While the postponement has provided some relief to the Banks and Insurance companies, we considered it to be appropriate to utilise this temporary deferral to analyse select business combinations that have occurred in the banking and insurance sector in the USA up to 31 December 2019.
Ind AS driven PPA disclosures (Ind AS 103) have a lesser history in the BFSI sector driven by a smaller number of business combination transactions in this sector. We, therefore, believe that it might be a good idea to explore the more mature US market for drawing inferences that can provide guiding sticks for deal reporting in India.
We hope you find the results of our study of interest and value.
Around 45-47% of the purchase consideration is towards goodwill in both, banking and insurance sectors. However, allocation of identified intangible assets in the insurance sector (41%) is significantly higher than the banking sector (7%)
In the US banking sector, we noted that 47% of the purchase consideration is allocated towards goodwill, 7% is allocated towards identified intangible assets and balance 46% towards identified tangible assets in the banking industry.
In the US insurance sector, 45% of the purchase consideration is allocated towards goodwill, 41% is allocated towards identified intangible assets and balance 14% towards tangible assets.
‘Core deposit accounts’ (98%) and customer relationships (70%) constitute the largest portion of identified intangible assets in the US banking and insurance sectors respectively
Core deposit accounts/CDI constitute the largest portion (98%) of identified intangibles in the banking sector of the US. It is recognized when a bank has a well-balanced deposit base comprised of funds associated with long term customer relationships.
Customer relationship constitutes the largest portion (70%) of identified intangibles in the insurance sector of the US. It is the fundamental value driver of an insurance company which is basically the in-force contracts already existing in the business.
Key findings
Overview of our methodology
- For the banking sector, we have analysed top 50 business combinations that occurred in the USA during the past 2 years ending 31 December 2019. For certain transactions, only the total value was disclosed for all the intangibles recognised. For such cases, the value of intangibles was assigned to core deposit intangibles.
- For the Insurance sector, the business combinations that occurred during the past 10 years ending 31 December 2019 were analysed. The transactions with a purchase price exceeding USD 25 million were considered. A total number of 50 transactions were identified where adequate information about PPA was disclosed. Appropriate assumptions were considered with regard to intangibles where the full information was not disclosed.
Why is BFSI sector unique?
Financial service firms have much in common with non-financial service firms. They attempt to be as profitable as they can, must worry about competition and want to grow rapidly over time. But there are a few points which make them unique from non-financial service firms:
- Capital of non-financial service firm includes both debt and equity. But with financial service firm, debt seems to take a different connotation. Rather than treating debt as a source of capital, most financial firm seems to treat it as a raw material. Therefore, capital at financial service firms seems to be more narrowly defined as including only equity capital.
- Financial service firms are heavily regulated all over the world, though the extent of the regulations varies from country to country.
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