Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Executive Director, India Infrastructure Finance Corporation (IIFC) stressed on the need to create awareness on tax-free bonds to facilitate growth in the infrastructure sector. He also said that IIFC, which has an outstanding credit of Rs 25,000 crore, plans to go for second round of fund raising in March
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IIFC calls for popularising tax-free bonds
Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Executive Director, India Infrastructure Finance Corporation (IIFC) stressed on the need to create awareness on tax-free bonds to facilitate growth in the infrastructure sector. He also said that IIFC, which has an outstanding credit of Rs 25,000 crore, plans to go for second round of fund raising in March
Dewan Housing mulls Rs 40 bn fund raising
In a communication to the stock exchange, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation informed that it plans to mop up Rs 4,000 crore through debentures. Of the Rs 4,000 crore, a maximum of Rs 3,000 crore would be raised through private placement of secured debentures in one or
Power Finance Corp to issue Rs 1.5 bn worth bonds
Power Finance Corp (PFC) considers to issue unsecured bonds worth Rs 1.5 billion, for which it received "AAA" rating by Crisil ICRA and CARE. The term of these bonds is six years and the corporation would pay 8.72 percent interest on the bonds. The structure of the bonds is such that they are redeemable in three equal installments. Each bond will offer
Firms raise more capital through NCDs
Reports indicate that companies raised more than Rs 35,000 crore through issue of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) in 2012, which is higher than the Rs 12,753 crore garnered in the preceding year. Recently, HDFC issued Rs 250 crore NCDs with a green shoe option to raise another Rs 250 crore.The mortgage lender raised the amount to meet general corp
SKS completes Rs 411 cr worth securitisation deal
So far in 2012-13, SKS Microfinance clinched five securitisation deals aggregating to Rs 411 crore with banks. The fifth one was a Rs 52.62 crore securitization deal that the bank entered into recently with a private sector bank and which is rated A1 {SO). Meanwhile, it may be noted that the company announced a net profit of Rs 1.2 crore during October-December 2012, after suffering losses in seven consecutive qua
SKS completes Rs 411 cr worth securitisation deal
So far in 2012-13, SKS Microfinance clinched five securitisation deals aggregating to Rs 411 crore with banks. The fifth one was a Rs 52.62 crore securitization deal that the bank entered into recently with a private sector bank and which is rated A1 {SO). Meanwhile, it may be noted that the company announced a net profit of Rs 1.2 crore during October-December 2012, after suffering losses in seven consecutive qua
Panel suggests allowing banks to issue fixed rate bonds
An expert panel suggested Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow banks to issue long-term bonds which carry fixed interest rate in order to mop up resources for lending to infrastructure sector. The panel headed by KK Vohra, Chief General Manager, internal debt management department, RBI, suggested that banks can issue long term bonds with minim
Financial entities’ share in bond issue declines
Data collected by Prime Database shows that the share of financial sector entities in the total amount raised through private placement of bonds during April-September 2012 declined to 73.1 per cent from 90.3 per cent in 2011-12 and 78.3 per cent in 2010-11. The financial entities include primarily banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs). According to som
ABG Shipyard faces liquidity stress
The liquidity condition of ABG Shipyard is facing continued stress owing to large work-in-progress inventory relating to oil rigs, India Ratings said. The shipyard is facing delay in executing a novation agreement with a large client and an associate company. Novation is the act of either replacing an obligation to perform with a new obligation, or replacing a party to an a