Godrej Industries rolls out plans for the NBFC business

Godrej Industries (GIL) has communicated the following – GCL, the financial subsidiary of GIL was started in 2020 and since then has been providing home loans in select geographies. It is the holding entity for Godrej Housing Finance (an HFC) and Godrej Finance Limited (an NBFC). It is currently present across Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, … Read more

Paytm commits to become operating breakeven by September 2023

In it’s quarterly operating performance update for March 2022 quarter, Paytm founder Vijay Shekha Sharma (VSS) has informed the following – Paytm should be Operating EBITDA (before ESOP cost) break-even in the next 6 quarters i.e., by September 30, 2023. During December 2021 quarter, Paytm had reported EBITDA (before ESOP cost) loss of Rs 393 … Read more

Mahindra Finance predicts big improvement in asset quality by March end

Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services (MMFS) continues to sound very positive on the asset quality and has predicted big improvements. Key points to note – As at December 31, 2021, its Gross NPA (GNPA) as per IND-AS was 11.30% and as per IRACP at 14-15%. (IND-AS are the accounting norms and IRACP is RBI’s Prudential … Read more

Mahindra announces mileage guarantee on BS6 trucks. Marketing gimmick?

In case a customer chooses to return the truck, the ex-showroom price of the truck will be refunded after all the requirements are fulfilled as per the terms and conditions. Key points to note – Mileage guarantee is being offered on the entire BS6 truck range from 3.5 tonne till 55 tonne, including Blazo X … Read more

JSW to spend Rs 15,000 crore to increase capacity by 50% at Vijayanagar

JSW Steel is targeting to increase the capacity from 12 Million Tonne Per Annum (MTPA) to 18 MTPA by FY 24. Key points to note JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works is the largest single-location integrated steel-making facility in India with a current capacity of 12 MTPA. 18 MTPA target is through – 5 MTPA brownfield expansion … Read more

Lodha predicts significant debt reduction by March 2023

Lodha has indicated the following – Complete repayment of $225 mn bonds in the next 4 months. These were raised against it’s UK projects in March 2020 and are originally scheduled to be repaid by March 2023. However, they would be prepaid due to strong sales from UK projects during the last 2 quarters. Target … Read more