Public sector insurance firm subsidiary LIC Housing Finance on Tuesday announced a reduction in interest rates for its existing home loan borrowers.
LIC Chairman T S Vijayan on Friday said that V K Sharma will take over as the CEO of its housing finance arm, early next week. Sharma has been chosen to replace LIC Housing Finance CEO Ramachandran Nair, who was arrested by the CBI on charges of involvement in housing-loan bribery case on Wednesday.
Unit Trust of India and Industrial Finance Corporation of India, which together hold around 23 per cent stake in LIC Housing Finance, are likely to exit from the company even as LICHFL is exploring possibility of a public offer.
Fifty-one-year-old Sharma, who was earlier serving as the head of parent Life Insurance Corporation for the South Zone, asked investors not to "worry or panic".
"The main point is managing this growth so as to make it sustainable. Our aim is to grow by at least 25 per cent on-year during 2011-12."
LIC Housing Finance Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 413.40 million for the quarter ended December 31 as compared to net profit of Rs 321.20 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2001.
Leading mortgage financier LIC Housing Finance on Monday cut its home loan rates by 75 basis points for existing customers effective from April 1.
Non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) such as Bajaj Finance, Shriram Finance, Muthoot Finance, and IIFL Finance have regained their growth momentum after losing market share to banks in the post-Covid period. The growth surge is being led by diversified lenders and gold-loan companies while development-finance institutions such as Power Finance Corporation (PFC), REC, and Housing & Urban Development Corporation (Hudco) continue to grow at a slower pace.
Immediately after Reserve Bank hiked key short-term interest rates by 0.25 per cent on Tuesday, LIC Housing Finance announced that it will raise home loan rates.
'We are working with a few housing finance companies to drive affordable lending because that's where we believe our sweet spot is.'
LIC Housing Finance on Thursday announced it will launch reverse mortgage schemes for senior citizens in a couple of months.
Leading home loans provider LIC Housing Finance on Friday cut interest rates for new loans by 0.5 per cent effective from August 1.Another home loan lender HDFC has also cut interest rates on loans between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 50 lakh by 0.50 per cent from August 12.
LIC Housing Finance on Thursday slashed interest rates for new housing loan customers, intensifying the war for cornering a major pie of the now reviving home loan market.
Some called it 'sheer bad luck' for Nair, others talked of a conspiracy.
LIC Housing Finance (LICHF) delivered a healthy FY24 with improvements in net interest margin (NIM) and credit costs and an improved return on assets of 1.7 per cent compared to an average of 1.3 per cent between FY14-FY23. Loan growth was low due to technology upgrades to the platform in H1FY24, though momentum improved in H2FY24. In Q4FY24, the net interest income (NII) came in at Rs 2,250 crore.
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Public sector housing finance firm Housing and Urban Development Corporation has reduced interest rates on home and project loans by 50 to 125 basis points with effect from January 1, 2009. LIC Housing Finance on Wednesday cut interest rates for existing home loan borrowers by 0.75 per cent with effect from January 1.
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According to sources, in a January 6 letter to the department of financial services under the finance ministry, LIC said it wanted to stop sponsoring LIC Nomura Mutual Fund, and might offer some of its stake in LIC Housing Finance to other shareholders.
Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said 15 large NBFCs, including LIC Housing Finance, Bajaj Finance, Shriram Finance and Tata Sons, will be subject to enhanced regulatory requirements. The central bank has categorised NBFCs into Base Layer (NBFC-BL), Middle Layer (NBFC-ML), Upper Layer (NBFC-UL) and Top Layer (NBFC-TL). A list of 15 large Non Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) falling in the Upper Layer category has been released.
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee's (MPC) decision to cut the repo rate by 50 basis points (bps) to 5.5% was contrary to the expectations of many economists. Firstly, most of the economists expected the MPC to cut the repo rate by 25 bps citing the weakening of inflation, prospects of economic growth, geopolitical uncertainty and comfortable system liquidity.
"We may rope in a consultant for our proposed foray into banking business, if that is required. This will happen after the final guidelines on banking license is out by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)," Director and Chief Executive of LIC Housing Finance, V K Sharma said.
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The plan panel on Thursday termed the housing finance racket, involving the chief of LIC Housing Finance and several other officials of PSU banks, as a "very small" incident as far as banking system as a whole was concerned.
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Friday got its first female managing director and another new MD.
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India's biggest life insurer and financial institution has turned to its 'turnaround man' to restore credibility to prime subsidiary LIC Housing Finance (LICHF). Vijay Kumar Sharma, 52, formally took over as its CEO on Wednesday. Sharma comes from Chennai, where over the past one year he turned LIC's south zone into the best performer after a 20-month slowdown.
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Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, which is conducting an internal probe into the bribe-for-loan scam that surfaced at LIC Housing Finance (LICHF) in November, has not detected any aberration as yet.
Highly-rated finance firms and housing finance companies are expected to benefit from the absence of Housing Development Finance Corp (HDFC) from the bond market once it merges with the HDFC Bank in early FY24. Post merger, the bond market is expected to become less crowded, which will ease fund raising conditions for other players in the field. It may perhaps also compress the spread for debt instruments floated by housing finance companies (HFCs) over 10-year government bonds, subject to demand and supply conditions.
Brace yourselves to shell out more for home loan instalments.
Following a cut in the interest rates by banks, LIC Housing Finance Ltd on Friday announced a special rate of 7.75 per cent on home loans for all terms.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested eight people, including the chief executive officer of LIC Housing Finance, for allegedly giving corporate loans for monetary considerations.
The reaction from Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia comes a day after the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested LIC Housing Finance CEO Ramachandran Nair and seven other senior bankers on charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy.
A number of non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have tapped into the debt capital market ahead of the festival season to meet increasing credit demand as bank funding slows. On Tuesday, Aptus Value Housing Finance secured Rs 300 crore at an interest rate of 8.75 per cent through bonds maturing in five years. ICICI Home Finance Company turned to the market to raise Rs 275 crore at 7.94 per cent, alongside another Rs 300 crore at 7.95 per cent, through bonds maturing in five and three years, respectively.
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According to media reports, CBI conducted raids in prominent finance companires -- LIC Housing Finance and Central Bank of India with regards to a multi crore housing scam.
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