Edelweiss sells out majority of home finance business

Edelweiss Financial Services (EFSL) is divesting majority of it’s stake in the Home Finance Business. The subject business is currently under Nido Home Finance Limited (Nido), a wholly-owned subsidiary of EFSL. EFSL is divesting 73% stake of this entity through a mix of primary and secondary to Carlyle group and Aditya Puri Family investment vehicle. … Read more

RBI’s ‘core company’ tag puts many promoter entities in a quandary

Many corporate groups are caught in a bind over a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) rule on their holding and strategic investment companies. While promoter families use these entities to own equity stakes and control group companies, they are unlike regular holding companies. The difference lies in their income streams: more than half of their … Read more

Godrej Industries to reorganise and further boost financial services business

Godrej Industries (GL) has incorporated a new subsidiary Godrej Investment Ltd (GIL). The new Company will serve as the umbrella holding company for group’s financial services businesses. The group’s current lending operations, housed under Godrej Capital Ltd., include Godrej Housing Finance Ltd. and Godrej Finance Ltd., a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC). Godrej Capital under the … Read more

Moody’s changes Shriram Finance’s outlook to positive from stable

Moody’s Ratings has affirmed Shriram Finance Ltd’s (SFL) Ba1 long-term corporate family rating (CFR). The outlook has been changed to positive from stable. On December 19, 2025, SFL announced that MUFG Bank, Ltd. would acquire a 20% stake in the company through a preferential allotment of shares for ₹39600 crore (about $4.4 billion). The transaction is … Read more

Shriram’s credit rating has been upgraded

Subsequent to the MUFG news, CARE has upgraded Shriram’s FD credit rating to AAA Stable. This was widely expected and should help the Company in bringing down it’s cost of borrowings.

MUFG to acquire 20% in Shriram Finance for $4.4 bn

After denying rumors in October 2025, Shriram Finance (SFL) has announced the deal with MUFG Bank Ltd., Japan’s largest bank and a part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG). MUFG Bank will invest Rs 39,618 crore, equivalent to around USD 4.4 billion, in SFL through a preferential issuance of equity shares. It will get 20% … Read more

IHC targets a controlling stake in Sammaan

International Holding Company (IHC), a leading Abu-Dhabi based global investment company is investing Rs 8,850 cr ($1 Bn) into Sammaan. Transaction comprises of 33 cr equity shares at Rs 139/ share (18% discount to previous day’s price) aggregating to Rs 4,587 crore; and 30.7 cr warrants, convertible into equity shares, for Rs 4,263 crore. Above … Read more