CreditBrief

What Canara Bank lends, and to whom

Its loan book from its own filings: how big it was at the end of FY2025-26, who borrows from it, how it has grown and where it ranks. Every number links to the page it came from.

FY2025-26Year-end balance on 31 March 2026, the last day of FY2025-26. The latest half-year balance, on 30 Sep 2026, is ₹13.75 lakh crore (+11% since March).

Canara BankPublic sector banks

₹12.38lakh croreglobal gross advances on 31 Mar 2026: lent and not yet repaid

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Size among peers6thof 33 banks on CreditBrief, March 2026
Biggest segment40.9%Corporate & others, latest split (30 Sep 2026)
Share of the combined book5.8%of all banks on CreditBrief

Chapter 01 · The loan book

₹12.38 lakh crore lent out by March 2026. To whom?

A loan book is everything a lender has lent that has not yet been paid back. It is not profit and not revenue: it is the money still owed to it, on one day.

The simple version. When someone takes a ₹50 lakh home loan, it sits in Canara Bank's loan book until it is repaid. Add up every loan it had out on 31 March 2026, from corporate & others down, and you get ₹12.38 lakh crore. By 30 Sep 2026 it was ₹13.75 lakh crore.

First cut: who the borrower is · split from its latest filing, 30 Sep 2026

46%People and households₹6.35 lakh croreRetailAgriculture & Allied
54%Businesses₹7.40 lakh croreMSMECorporate & others

Drilling down: what it lends against · 30 Sep 2026

  • Corporate & others₹5.63 lakh crore40.9%
  • Retail₹3.31 lakh crore24%
  • Agriculture & Allied₹3.04 lakh crore22.1%
  • MSME₹1.78 lakh crore12.9%

The segments add to the global book, so "Corporate & others" appears to include ₹1,10,307 crore of overseas loans. Retail includes home loans of ₹1,34,501 crore and vehicle loans of ₹29,326 crore.

Sources: Canara Bank Investor Presentation Q4 FY26, PDF page 7 ↗ for March 2026; Canara Bank Investor Presentation Q2 FY27, PDF page 7 ↗ for 30 Sep 2026 and the split.

Chapter 02 · Insights

Growing 14% a year since March 2022.

From ₹7.41 lakh crore on 31 March 2022 to ₹12.38 lakh crore on 31 March 2026, and ₹13.75 lakh crore by 30 Sep 2026. Click the i beside any figure in the table to see the line it was read from.

CreditBrief Insights42 figures from 10 filings · each checked against its pageHow it works
Canara Bank · loan book · 31 March 2026₹12.38lakh crore+15% in FY2025-26₹13.75 lakh crore by 30 Sep 2026
  1. 0114%a year since 2022Grew 14% a year from March 2022 to March 2026, faster than 9 of the 29 other banks with like-for-like figures for those years.
  2. 0215%in FY2025-26Growth picked up to 15% in FY2025-26, from 12% the year before.
  3. 036thamong peersHeld its place as the 6th biggest of these 33 banks from March 2022 to March 2026.
Deposits₹15.69 lakh crore+7.7% · in FY2025-26
Loans to deposits78.9%+5.2 pts · in FY2025-26
CASA ratio29.8%-1.3 pts · in FY2025-26
Retail, agriculture and MSME loans₹7.31 lakh crore+20% · in FY2025-26
Corporate and wholesale loans₹5.07 lakh crore+9.5% · in FY2025-26
Branches10,097+2.5% · in FY2025-26
Mobile app users32.9 million+20% · in FY2025-26
MeasureMar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026Sep 2026
Loan book₹ crore · global gross advances7,41,1478,62,7829,60,60210,73,33212,37,54813,75,060
Retail, agriculture and MSME loans₹ crore4,21,2584,77,0055,41,4896,10,1277,30,5208,12,310
Corporate and wholesale loans₹ crore3,19,8893,85,7774,19,1134,63,2055,07,0285,62,750
Deposits₹ crore10,86,40911,79,21913,12,36614,56,88315,68,67816,97,305
CASA ratio%35.8833.4832.2931.1729.8429.00
BranchesNumber9,7349,7069,6049,84910,09710,146
Mobile app usersMillion12.116.722.127.532.935.4

Each value was checked by script: the quoted line is on the cited page and its number matches. Growth is worked out from these values.

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Canara Bank, Q2 FY2026-27: loan book ₹13.75 lakh crore, +11% since March

  • ₹13.75 lakh crore lent out by Q2 FY2026-27
  • Biggest segment: Corporate & others, 41% of the book
  • Every figure links to page 7 of its filing

Chapter 03 · Among its peers

6th biggest of 33 banks we cover, March 2026.

At the end of FY2025-26 it held 5.8% of the combined loan book of the banks on CreditBrief. Banks report advances, gross or net, and each row says which.

  1. 1State Bank of India₹49.33 lakh crore
  2. 2HDFC Bank₹29.60 lakh crore
  3. 3ICICI Bank₹15.54 lakh crore
  4. 4Bank of Baroda₹14.30 lakh crore
  5. 5Punjab National Bank₹12.59 lakh crore
  6. 6Canara Bank₹12.38 lakh crore
  7. 7Axis Bank₹12.34 lakh crore
  8. 8Union Bank of India₹10.79 lakh crore

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Chapter 05 · Sources

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