April 24 (Reuters) - India's IndusInd Bank INBK.NS reported a bigger-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Friday, helped by a drop in provisions for potential bad loans.
The country's fifth largest private lender by market capitalisation posted a profit of 5.33 billion rupees ($56.55 million) for the quarter ended March 31, beating analysts' expectation of 3.89 billion rupees, per data complied by LSEG.
In the year-ago quarter, the bank had reported its biggest-ever quarterly loss due to years of misaccounting of internal derivative trades.
($1 = 94.2475 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Nishit Navin; Editing by Harikrishnan Nair)
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