Piramal Group, which holds stakes in Shriram’s insurance businesses, is neither actively looking to exit nor in a rush to do so and will take a call as things unfold, says Subhasri Sriram
A significant portion of its customers already possess investible surplus, making them potential clients for wealth products, says Shriram Capital's Subhasri
The company had applied for an asset reconstruction company (ARC) license to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in November 2023.
Shriram Capital is looking to start the asset reconstruction business this financial year, said the Executive Vice-Chairman.
He further added that the ARC will be 100 percent subsidiary of Shriram Capital.
The new company, to be headquartered in Mumbai, has over 6.7 million customers being served at over 3,600 branches across the country, barring Nagaland, by its 57,000 employees, 3,000 of them hired since the merger announcement.
Shriram Financial Ventures, which served as the holding company for SCL, will henceforth take on the roles of promoter and holding company for the Group's financial services and insurance operations.
The two insurance ventures will be quarantined from each other to avoid adverse cross-effects of business worries.
Both NBFCs have strong pockets and domain expertise. Besides the benefits that would result from scale, the non-banking finance business of the Shriram group would gain greater stability and achieve higher growth.
Shriram Capital will dilute its stake before spinning off its insurance business
The company believes that the merger would help it bring together all its lending products – commercial vehicles, two-wheeler loans, gold loan, personal loan, auto loan and small enterprise finance - under a single roof
The announcement comes in the wake of intense speculation that Shriram Capital has been exploring a merger of its two lending companies, Shriram Transport Finance Ltd and Shriram City Union Finance Ltd.
The firm seeks to improve its capital adequacy ratio and debt-to-equity ratio and boost its lending business through this rights issue.
Ajay Piramal and private equity firm TPG, who are investors in Shriram Capital, will be given an opportunity to exit before the merger takes place.
The Centre which holds 16.38 percent stake in IDFC has expressed its displeasure over the planned merger between Shriram Capital and its associate's companies with IDFC and its subsidiary IDFC on concerns of substantial dilution of ownership.
What’s still not clear is the swap ratio at the level of the bank and holding company and finally how shareholders of the Shriram Group’s retail lending arms would consent to a merger that is detrimental to their interests.
IDFC and Shriram group are exploring options to merge various businesses to create a financial powerhouse worth of over USD 10 billion, sources told CNBC-TV18. An announcement is likely to be made on July 8.
Ajay Piramal is likely to raise his stake in Shriram Capital to one-thirds from one-fifths, reports The Economic Times. The Piramal Enterprises Chairman will also be naming an executive as the CEO.
According to sources, Rajesh Laddha, who has worked with the Piramal Group for over 15 years and is currently the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Piramal Enterprises, may soon join Shriram Capital as MD and CEO.
South Africa-based financial services firm Sanlam Ltd has got fair trade regulator CCI's approval to acquire 23 percent stake each in Shriram Group's two insurance firms.
Shriram Transport Finance Company today reported a 54.56 percent plunge in profit to Rs 143.92 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 31.
The group said it wants to get into banking space as it would fill up the gap it has in terms of their product offerings.
The Bimal Jalan panel which is scrutinising applications for new bank licences will hold its last meeting on Tuesday.
Ajay Piramal is already associated with the group after he picked up private equity major TPG's 10 percent in used-commercial vehicles financier Shriram Transport Finance last year.
Value Industries was among the 26 applicants for a new banking licence in the private sector, for which the Reserve Bank had invited applications by July 1 this year.