EY is said to be conducting a due diligence on IIFL Samasta Finance. IIFL Capital and DAM Capital have been appointed as bankers to the deal.
Nemkumar H, IIFL Capital Services' Managing Director and member of board, has stepped down to focus exclusively on business development, and is now the designated Chief Growth Officer.
Earlier this month, IIFL Finance reported an 8% fall in loan assets under management to Rs 71,410 crore ($8.24 billion) for the first nine months of the fiscal year that ends in March
Mankind Pharma sealed the Rs 13,630 crore acquisition of private equity firm Advent International owned Bharat Serums and Vaccines (BSV) in July.
The ratings agency said that the action follows lifting of the regulatory embargo on the gold loan business of IIFL Finance and said that post this, the non-bank lender is expected to regain its market share.
The regulator had on September 19 lifted restrictions on the gold loan lender. This would allow the lender to restart its gold loan operations but brokerages expect that the lender would look at growing slowly as it will look at keeping all the compliance measures in check.
This is not the first time that IIFL has found itself at the receiving end in terms of allegations related to governance levels. The recent past has seen both RBI and SEBI pull up IIFL for violations of the regulatory framework put in place by the banking and the capital markets watchdogs.
The lender in the January-March quarter of financial year 2023-24 reported a 10 percent year-on-year (YoY) drop in net profit.
Though there is no clear link between the sale of shares and the RBI action, a proxy adviser has called the move 'odd' and another said the market regulator should look into the reason behind investors' trimming stakes
On March 4, RBI stopped IIFL Finance from sanctioning and disbursing fresh gold loans over material supervisory concerns.
Several financial institutions, including IIFL Finance, Paytm Payments Bank, and JM Financial, have come under intense regulatory scrutiny, sparking concerns across the financial sector.
Total income grew 33 per cent to Rs 1,599.3 crore, the company said, adding its asset quality improved with gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) falling to 1.8 per cent from 2.4 per cent and net NPAs improving to 1 per cent from 1.2 per cent.
This is the fund's first investment in a supply chain finance firm, the company said in a statement without disclosing any financial details of the transaction.
This is the largest such Employee Stock Option (ESOP) scheme for frontline employees across industries and the first in the Banking Finance Services and Insurances (BFSI) sector, the company said in a statement.