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State-owned non-banking finance firm REC Ltd on Saturday said it has raised USD 750 million (about Rs 6,138 crore) through issuance of green bonds. The net proceeds from the issue of the bonds will be applied to finance, in whole or in part, the eligible green projects in accordance with the approvals granted by Reserve Bank of India from time to time and in accordance with the ECB guidelines, according to a statement. "REC Ltd has successfully raised USD 750 million through 5-year 144A/ RegS green bonds under its global medium-term programme of USD 7 billion," the statement said. As a frequent issuer in the market and given the relatively stable market backdrop last week, the REC decided to capitalise on the environment to carry out an intra-day execution post extensive investor roadshows spanning two weeks in different geographies covering Singapore, the UK, and the US, it stated. The issue marks the REC's return to the capital market since 2021, with the last 144A transaction in
NBFC Moneyboxx Finance on Friday said it has secured a Rs 20 crore term loan from Maanaveeya Development & Finance, and the funds will be used for onward lending to micro entrepreneurs. Maanaveeya is an Indian subsidiary of Oikocredit. Moneyboxx is supported by 24 lenders, including SBI, IDFC First Bank, DCB Bank, AU SFB, and has raised cumulative debt of close to Rs 400 crore. With planned equity raise and continuous support from lenders and co-lending partnerships, the company is targeting asset under management (AUM) of Rs 1,000 crore by 2023-24 from current AUM of Rs 290 crore as of February 2023, it said in a release. "The loan from Maanaveeya will help boost our efforts in fostering financial inclusion by addressing the unmet and growing need for credit in the Rs 1-10 lakh small business loan segment," said Deepak Aggarwal, Co-Founder, Moneyboxx. The BSE-listed NBFC focuses on impact financing by providing business loans to micro entrepreneurs in Tier-III cities and below. .
Shares of financial services company Poonawalla Fincorp on Tuesday jumped over 6 per cent in early trade after the firm reported a rise in net profit for the third quarter. The stock climbed 6.27 per cent to Rs 308.55 in morning trade on the BSE. On the NSE, it zoomed 6.17 per cent to Rs 308.75. In a regulatory filing on Monday, Poonawalla Fincorp reported 88 per jump in net profit to Rs 150 crore for the third quarter ended December 2022. The non-banking financial company (NBFC) focusing on consumer and MSME finance had reported a net profit of Rs 80 crore in the year-ago period. Total income in the quarter rose to Rs 519 crore as against Rs 394 crore a year ago, it said. Net Interest Margin of the company rose to 10.7 per cent, an improvement of 94 basis points.
The Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Group is foraying into the lending space with an investment of up to Rs 400 crore in a captive non-bank lender housed in its e-commerce arm, a senior official has said. The non-bank finance company (NBFC) will be a subsidiary of the JSW One Platforms (JSWOP) and will be doing purchase finance for buyers on the newly started e-commerce arm, Gaurav Sachdeva, the chief executive of JSWOP, told PTI in a recent interaction. Eventually, the NBFC can help out other companies in group like cements, steel or paints by offering financing solutions, Sachdeva, who has worked in the financial services space earlier, said. Sachdeva said at present, the micro, small and medium enterprises which form JSWOP's clientele are not served by the banking sector as well as they should be, and hence, the USD 22 billion JSW Group felt a need to enter the space. He said JSWOP will invest around Rs 350-400 crore in the NBFC over the next two years, and the same is a part of an overa