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Mumbai:
The country''s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has received offers worth
Rs2,650 crore for a 5.9 per cent stake in its proposed new subsidiary. ICICI
Bank has received definitive offers from various investors for subscription to
equity shares in its new insurance and asset management subsidiary, ICICI Financial
Services, the bank in a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The
offer values ICICI Financial Services at Rs44,600 crore on a post-issue basis. ICICI,
however, did not disclose the details of the investors from whom it had received
the subscription offers. The
arrangement is subject to regulatory and other approvals, including the Reserve
Bank of India, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority and the Foreign
Investment Promotion Board. ICICI
Bank further said the registrar of companies in Vadodara has approved the name
ICICI Financial Services" for the new subsidiary to be set up by the Bank
instead of the earlier proposed name of "ICICI Holdings". ICICI
Bank will also raise up to Rs8,750 crore through a follow-on public offer (FPO)
in domestic markets. The
bank would issue equity shares of Rs10 each amounting to Rs8,750 crore for cash
at a price to be determined by book building process, ICICI Bank said in a communique
to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). It
added that five per cent of the FPO would be reserved for existing
shareholders holding shares worth Rs100,000 as of June 13, which is the record
date for the issue. The
other details relating to the FPO, including the price band, would be announced
by the bank in due course, it said.
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