Reliance Industries, the country's most valued company, is delaying its annual general meeting this year following non-receipt of approvals for merger of Indian Petrochemicals with itself.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India on Thursday proposed consolidation of regional bourses to form a bigger entity 'Indonext' or a merger with either BSE or NSE, as part of the ongoing capital market reforms.
The board of Deccan Aviation, India's largest budget carrier, will meet in Bangalore on Wednesday to consider the merger with the UB Group's Kingfisher Airlines, which bought a stake in the carrier recently.
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'We created war rooms -- from an IT perspective and also a customer war room -- to address any challenges that come up.'
Telesys Software Ltd's board approved the merger of subsidiary companies Aavishkar Software Ltd, Scribe Solutions P Ltd, Sun Java Solutions P Ltd, and Millenium Web Solutions P Ltd. with the company.
After filing their objections against the Air India-Indian Airlines merger with the corporate affairs ministry on August 31, the unions of Indian Airlines are now planning to take the matter to court.
Re-rating of Axis Bank's stock may continue in the near-future, believe analysts, as the risk-reward on the stock remains favourable amid healthy financials. The bullish stance comes after the Mumbai-based lender delivered a strong outperformance in the March quarter of fiscal year 2023-24 (Q4FY24) on core pre-provision profit and net profit, with improving asset quality. Axis Bank's net interest margin (NIM) expanded, against expectations, even in a tough market.
Mahindra Forgings Ltd on Thursday said the proposed merger of its three subsidiaries with the company will propel it to the position of second largest forging player in the Indian market.
Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd on Monday said its board has approved raising funds through non-convertible debentures (NCDs) in tranches aggregating to Rs 57,000 crore. The board has cleared issuance of unsecured, redeemable, non-convertible debentures under a Shelf Placement Memorandum, aggregating Rs 57,000 crore, in various tranches, on a private placement basis, HDFC said in a regulatory filing. This is in accordance with the approval granted by the shareholders of the HDFC at the 45th annual general meeting held on June 30, 2022, it said.
Based on a writ petition filed by some individual investors, the High Court while ordering the status quo on Friday, issued notices to SEBI, BSE, NSE, Sun Pharma, Ranbaxy, Daichii Sankyo and Silver Street Developers.
While the merger will see the share of the promoter group increase by two percentage points, the move has also seen a few analysts raise concerns.
Should the anti-defection law in India exist only to prevent democratically elected governments from being toppled?
The meeting to approve the merger of Udaipur-based BoR with the country's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank got off to a chaotic start.
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.
The discussions, if successful, would see the German major owning a majority stake of nearly 60 per cent in the combined entity, while the rest would be with NYSE Euronext.
Private life insurers experienced reasonable growth in the July-September quarter (second quarter, or Q2) of 2023-24 (FY24), and the October data is also encouraging. The individual weighted received premium (WRP) for private players grew by 19.8 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in October. However, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India had slower growth, pulling the industry growth rate down to 13 per cent Y-o-Y.
Reliance Energy Ltd said on Thursday it has got shareholders' approval for the merger of Reliance Energy Ventures Ltd with itself.
Two Anil Ambani group companies, Reliance Power and Reliance Natural Resources, on Monday said their respective shareholders have approved merger between the two entities, estimated to create a Rs 50,000-crore (Rs 500 billion) entity.
The government on Tuesday told the Rajya Sabha that it has not received any formal proposal for merger of Sahara Airlines with Jet Airways, leading to protests by Left members who asked the minister to clarify on the matter.
Following the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) action against Paytm Payments Bank, participants in the fintech ecosystem have turned their attention to giving priority to compliance with regulatory norms. Fintech industry players say the episode will ensure adherence to such measures. Executives Business Standard spoke to said companies should have clarity on their requirements.
The Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group on Friday announced a tentative schedule for merger of two firms transferred from Mukesh Ambani group.
Nikkei 225 index hit the 40,000 mark for the first time ever on Monday, continuing its bull-run that saw the index reclaim its 1989 peak of 34,000 levels in February. as global investors latched on to Japan's biggest companies on improving shareholder returns, the weaker yen and booming corporate profits. Analysts remain bullish on Japan, mostly aided by gains in technology shares. Adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a note by Morgan Stanley, is likely to benefit Japanese companies, which is almost at par with the US-based companies.
Chinese steel industry has for the first time openly expressed concern over the merger of global steel giants, Mittal with Arcelor saying it posed "great challenge" for the domestic industry.
Kotak Mahindra Bank's acquisition of ING Vysya Bank is the country's first ever amalgamation of a profit earning entity post the global financial meltdown in 2008.
The merger process started four years ago, with the acquisition of Satyam in April 2009.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given HDFC Bank six months to migrate HDFC's home loan customers to external benchmark linked lending rate (EBLR), top sources in the bank told Business Standard. Almost half of HDFC's 5.4 million customers are home loan customers. It is mandatory for banks to link retail loans and loans to micro, medium and small enterprises to an external benchmark. Non-banking financial companies do not have such a mandate.
After opening close to 1,500 branches in 2022-23, HDFC Bank, the country's largest private sector lender, will continue expanding its branch network at the same speed in the current financial year. The lender says branch expansion is crucial for deposit mobilisation. As of March 31, 2023, HDFC Bank had 7,821 branches, up from 6,342 a year ago.
The Madras high court was to hear the petition on Friday, but it had to be deferred due to the ongoing boycott of courts by lawyers, Subhiksha Trading Services Ltd said. The merger petition pertains to the purchase of 40 per cent stake in Blue Green Constructions for Rs 2 crore (Rs 20 million) by Subhiksha in 2008, followed by the retail chain's decision to merge the two entities.
Net foreign direct investment (FDI) in India, inflows minus outflows, declined sharply in April-August this year to $2.99 billion from $18.03 billion in the same period last year on moderation in global activities and a rise in repatriation. The Reserve Bank of India's data (October 2023 bulletin) said FDI in India was $7.28 billion and FDI by India, that is money invested abroad from the country, was $4.28 billion in April-August 2023. As for 2022, FDI in India was $22.79 billion and FDI by India was $4.76 billion in April-August.
Although Walmart-Flipkart wholesale game-plan is to target about a $150 billion market out of a total pie of $700 billion in the country, the consolidation marks the end of the multi-brand dream of the American retail giant.
Noting that the talks between GM and Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity arm that owns Chrysler, began over a month ago, the New York Times said, 'negotiations are not certain to produce a deal.' Quoting two people close to the process, the newspaper said that chances of a merger were "50-50" as of Friday and "would most likely still take weeks to work out."
Survey says about 60% were unhappy with the union of the two carriers.
The Planning Commission will finalise in a couple of months a draft on an integrated energy policy, which will include its views on merger of oil public sector undertakings.
In its petition, the association alleged that the procedure followed by the Union Government for the merger was not proper and was illegal. A new company, National Aviation Company of India Ltd was incorporated in March this year as promoter of the new brand and the merger would take two years to become effective.
'We are focused on playing on our strengths, which are technology, and building a large profitable business by working with banks as well as non-banks and NBFCs for loans.'
