Tatas to pick up 4.6% in DCB

The Tata group will pick up to 4.6 per cent stake in Development Credit Bank (DCB) through its newly-formed subsidiary Tata Capital.

The board of DCB today approved raising up to Rs 310 crore by issuing preferential shares to five investors, including Tata Capital, at Rs 105 per share. This would form 16.6 per cent of the post-issue capital of the bank.

The other investors who will pick up up to 4.6 per cent stake in the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (Akfed) promoted bank are UAE-based Al Bateen Investment Co, GRA Finance Corp, Mauritius, DCB Investments, Mauritius and India Capital Opportunities 1, Mauritius.

DCB Investments is a special purpose vehicle floated by Schroders, a UK-based asset management company, to invest in the private sector bank. The preferential allotment is subject to the approval of the bank’s shareholders and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

If the RBI approval is not received for any of the proposed investor(s), the board of the private sector bank will have the power to identify and negotiate with one or more investors or with other interested investors for selling the stake and will secure the RBI’s special approval for the same, said the bank.

Read more in The Business Standard article.

DCB to issue shares at Rs 105, raise Rs 310cr

The board of directors of Development Credit Bank (DCB), which met today, approved a proposal to raise up to Rs 310 crore by issuing preferential shares at Rs 105 per share.

According to a release issued by the bank to the BSE today, the preferential issue would constitute 16.60% of the post-issue share capital.The investors would include Tata Capital (with a post-issue shareholding of up to 4.60%), Al Bateen Investment Co. L.L.C., U.A.E, GRA Finance Corporation, Mauritius, DCB Investments, Mauritius and India Capital Opportunities 1, Mauritius.

"If the RBI approval is not received wholly or partly for any of the proposed investor(s), the board shall have the power to identify and negotiate with one or more investors or with other interested investors and procure specific approval of the RBI," the release added.

Tatas form finance co for bigger spread

Five years after the Tata group merged its finance unit Tata Finance with Tata Motors, the wheel has turned a full circle for the conglomerate. On Tuesday, Tata Sons, the group’s holding company, said it has formed a new firm, Tata Capital, for financial services that will operate in the large growing segments within the finance sector that also include businesses that Tata Finance earlier operated in.

It has also been learnt that segments of Tata Finance that are now operating within Tata Motors, such as asset and vehicle financing, would be spun off into Tata Capital.

Apart from private equity, which has become a buzzword in India due to recent large deals, Tata Capital would also function in capital market services, merchant banking, housing finance, assets and vehicle financing and retail finance.

Read more in The Economic Times article.