Yes Bank share price dips 9% as Rakesh Jhunjhunwala likely to withdraw plans to invest in co

Three institutional investors and five family offices expressed interest in acquiring fresh stake in the bank including Top Tier US Fund House, Discovery Capital and Ward Ferry (institutional investors) and Aditya Birla Family Office, Citax Holdings Ltd. & Citax Investment Group, GMR group & associates, Erwin Singh Braich/ SPGP Holdings and Rekha Jhunjhunwala.

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The board of directors will reconvene on December 10 to finalise and is expected to approve the details of the preferential allotment and convene an extraordinary general meeting subsequently to obtain the approval of the shareholders.

In November, ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala bought 1.29 crore shares in private lender through open market transactions at an average price of Rs 67.1.

Recently, the bank sold its entire holding of 13,77,000 equity shares having nominal value of Rs 10 each, constituting 5.49 percent of the paid-up share capital of One Point One Solutions.

Last week, Moody's Investors Service downgraded bank's long-term foreign currency issuer rating to B2 from Ba3.

Moody's has also downgraded the bank's long-term foreign and local currency bank deposit ratings to B2 from Ba3, foreign currency senior unsecured MTN program rating to (P)B2 from (P)Ba3, and Baseline Credit Assessment (BCA) and Adjusted BCA to b3 from b1.

At 14:34 hrs Yes Bank was quoting at Rs 51.00, down Rs 5.20, or 9.25 percent. It has touched an intraday high of Rs 56.30 and an intraday low of Rs 49.30.