IDFs play a vital role as investment vehicles that can be sponsored by NBFCs and commercial banks in India. Shrikanth S writes on how IDFs are correcting the asset-liability mismatch, and also help advance loans for fresh infrastructure projects. The urgent need to improve infrastructure prompted the Indian Planning Commission to estimate infrastructure spending in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17).
Category: Infrastructure Finance
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Finally the Cure?
Long term financing has been ailing the infrastructure sector making alternate non-banking financing options like Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs) more viable. Rahul Kamat and Garima Pant explore the IDF environment in India. The yawning infrastructure gap in the country is seeking closure to unleash its locked growth potential.
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Managing infra assets
India's rapidly growing infrastructure asset base needs to be properly managed in order to ensure investor confidence. G Sathiamoorthy seeks to provide an overview of the new ISO 5500X suite of International Standards for Asset Management and its implications and applications for the effective management of India's burgeoning infrastructure asset base.
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IDFs are the best route to refinance existing projects
Sadashiv Rao, Chief Risk Officer, IDFC Ltd tells Rahul Kamat that IDF-NBFC is a safer route compared to IDF-Mutual Fund, as in the latter, the fund manager can invest in any project (under construction) which will have risk involved in it, and investors may not like to invest in high-risk projects.
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Infra Insights
Long-term financing is what the Indian infrastructure sector needs to attain the projected growth. And Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs), which the government had in 2011-12 fiscal under Finance Minister P Chidambaram allowed to form to step up investment in the infrastructure sector, which requires $ 1 trillion in the 12th Plan.
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Seeking Revival
The 6th Annual India Roads Conference organised by ASAPP Media invited industry think tanks and sector people to deliberate, discuss and ponder over the issues plaguing the roads sector in the country. The conference focused on 'Accelerating India's Road to Growth'.
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Exim Bank raises $ 500 million
Exim Bank has raised $500 million by selling bonds to offshore investors. The bond has a tenure of five-and-a-half years offering a yield of 3.961 per cent. The issue was rated as BBB- by rating company S&P. Investors across Asia, Europe and the US have subscribed this issue. Asian investors' subscription was to the tune of 62 per cent while European investors bought 33 per cent of the stake.
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REC to raise funds for RE projects
Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) plans to raise funds from Germany's development bank Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) for financing renewable energy (RE) projects. REC had earlier received about Eur100 million loan from KfW. REC has reported a 19.5 per cent growth y-o-y in net profit for the third quarter backed by strong revenues.
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NDB Bank gets IFC loan
The National Development Bank (NDB) was provided with a syndicated loan of $125 million by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The loan will be used to aid the financing of 50,000 micro, small and medium enterprises by 2018. The Chief Executive Officer of NDB Bank Rajendra Theagarajah said that there would be second loan granted by the IFC by June 2014 amounting to nearly $200 million.
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NCMSL to get funding from NABARD
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) will lend Rs 130 crore to the private sector company National Collateral and Management Services (NCMSL) through its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund. NABARD, which generally lends only to government-owned warehousing entities, has utilised the special window opened by the Centre to fund established private sector warehousing companies like NCMSL.