Axis is planning to take a 10% stake for around $9 million in the start-up's upcoming life insurance business, effectively valuing the business at $90 million, said the two sources, who declined to be named as the talks were private. The move comes after India's biggest private lender HDFC Bank said in a stock exchange disclosure last week that it planned to buy a 9.94% stake in Go Digit Life for up to 700 million rupees ($9 million).
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had given in-principle approval for strategic disinvestment and transfer of management control in IDBI Bank in May 2021.
Alvarez & Marsal and Grant Thornton are advising IL&FS on the bank-wise distribution of the proceeds from the recoveries. IL&FS had informed lenders last week that proceeds would be distributed in the third quarter as against the initial plan of this being done in the second quarter, said one of the persons cited above.
The deal was announced in March this year. Despite Citi losing market share on credit cards in India, Axis Bank says attrition of employees and customers in the business it was acquiring was within manageable limits.
A review of the quarterly financial data released by the public sector lenders revealed that the Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) and State Bank of India (SBI) were in the lowest quartile for Gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) and Net NPAs in the June quarter.
​​The Non Performing Assets (NPAs) are higher in the services and infrastructure sectors, which are largely driven by Covid like their contact intensiveness and reliance on movement of people, the report by credit information company Transunion Cibil said.
A penalty of Rs 10 lakh has been imposed on Bharat Heavy Electricals Employees' Co-operative Bank, Kailasapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu; Rs 5 lakh on The Ottapalam Co-operative Urban Bank Ltd, No.F. 1647, Ottapalam, Palakkad District, Kerala; and Rs 10 lakh on The Darussalam Co-operative Urban Bank, Hyderabad, Telangana.
The NPA rate at 4.8% for borrowers who availed ECLGS facility is also lower than that of the borrowers who were eligible but did not avail the facility (6.1%), according to a report published by TransUnion CIBIL.
"There is no definite timeline for setting up of the fraud registry. At present, we are talking to different stakeholders including different departments like payments and settlement and supervision of RBI," RBI executive director Anil Kumar Sharma revealed.