Amid reports of stake sale, state-owned IDBI Bank today said there is no formal proposal from L&T Finance Holdings for merger with the bank.
Asserting that UTI Mutual Fund is the only large independent asset manager in the country, its chief Leo Puri has said that the fund house's proposed IPO will further strengthen this character.
UTI AMC, which runs the country's oldest fund house UTI MF, had earlier also planned to launch an IPO, but it had to shelve its plans way back in 2008 due to adverse market conditions, despite having got all regulatory clearances.
The point here is not to go in for a big time stake sale. In fact, the government did shed its stake in Axis Bank to around 10 percent in FY14 and the plan was not to sell any further stock in FY15.
The country's largest insurer LIC has hiked its stake in Infosys to a record high level of 6.3% with purchase of shares worth an estimated Rs 2,000 crore in the first quarter of the current fiscal.