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IPO rush continues; 10 cos line up public issues worth Rs 10,000 cr in Dec, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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New Delhi, Dec 1 : The IPO lane will continue to be busy in December as 10 companies have lined up initial share-sale plans worth more than Rs 10,000 crore, merchant banking sources said on Wednesday. Moreover, the initial public offerings of Star Health and Allied Insurance and Tega Industries are currently open for public subscription.

This comes after 10 firms successfully concluded their initial public offerings (IPOs) in November.

Among the companies that scheduled their IPOs in this month include RateGain Travel Technologies, travel and hospitality technology services provider, and Anand Rathi Wealth Ltd, part of Mumbai-based financial services group Anand Rathi.

RateGain’s Rs 1,335-crore initial share-sale will open for public subscription during December 7-9, and the Rs 660-crore IPO of Anand Rathi Wealth will open on December 2.

In addition, the companies that have firmed up their IPO plans are — Global Health Ltd, which operates and manages hospitals under the Medanta brand, pharmacy retail chain MedPlus Health Services and Healthium Medtech, merchant banking sources said.

Apart from these, Metro Brands, Shriram Properties, AGS Transact Technologies, Shri Bajrang Power and Ispat and VLCC Health Care may also float their public issues in the period under review, they added.

Investment bankers said these companies will raise more than Rs 10,000 crore collectively.

The companies are raising funds to support business expansion plans, to retire debt and for general corporate purposes.

Some of the IPOs are an offer for sale (OFS), where private equity players or the promoter wants to cash out part of their holding.

Prateek Singh, founder and CEO of LearnApp.com, attributed the impressive pipeline to the bull run in the equity markets.

“The best time for any company to go for an IPO is during the Bull market, which is also the reason why many companies are going for a public listing at this time. Companies look to tap into the sentiment from the public markets at such opportune times and are highly successful,” he said.

Further, initial share-sales are receiving tremendous applications from the investors and IPOs have been subscribing multifold times.This has pushed companies to raise funds through IPO.

He further said the trend will continue and more tech companies will try to go public in the immediate future until the market calms down and moves downward.

“So, if the markets fall in the future, the IPOs will also reduce,” he added.

So far in 2021, as many as 51 companies have launched their IPOs to raise over Rs 1 lakh crore, according to analysis of data with exchanges.

Apart from these, PowerGrid InvIT, the infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) sponsored by the Power Grid Corporation of India, mopped-up Rs 7,735 crore through its IPO and Brookfield India Real Estate Trust raised Rs 3,800 crore via its initial share-sale.

The fundraising so far this year is way higher than the Rs 26,611 crore collected by 15 companies through initial share-sales in the entire 2020.

Such impressive fundraising through IPOs was last seen in 2017 when firms mobilised Rs 67,147 crore through 36 initial share-sales.



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PMC Bank’s institutional depositors may have to wait for Unity IPO to get money back, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Depositors of PMC Bank are set for an agonising wait of ten years till they get their money back.

The Reserve Bank has come out with a draft scheme for the takeover of the crisis-hit PMC Bank by the Delhi-based Unity Small Finance Bank (USFB).

The draft scheme of amalgamation envisages the takeover of the assets and liabilities of PMC Bank, including deposits, by USFB, thus giving a greater degree of protection for the depositors, the RBI said.

In a statement issued later, USFB said with the draft scheme ’96 per cent of all depositors will get immediate access to their full deposits’.

It said 99 per cent of the retail depositors will be paid in full by the fifth year and 100 per cent of retail depositors to be paid in full by the tenth year.

Retail depositors

According to the scheme deposits up to Rs 5 lakh can be claimed by depositors over a period of three to ten years.

The scheme says that depositors can claim up to Rs 50,000 at the end of three years and further can claim Rs 1 lakh at the end of four years, Rs 3 lakh at the end of five years and Rs 5.50 lakh at the end of 10 years. The RBI had doubled the amount depositors can withdraw from PMC Bank to Rs 1 lakh from Rs 50,000 in June 2020, allowing more than 84% of the depositors to withdraw their entire account balance.

RBI said the above limits are for depositors are over and above the withdrawals already made.

According to this schedule, the entire remaining deposits of PMC Bank depositors will be paid back within 10 years from the date the central government notifies this scheme of amalgamation. Further, the central bank has clarified that interest on these deposits shall not accrue after March 31, 2021, for five years.

PMC Bank's institutional depositors may have to wait for Unity IPO to get money back

“No further interest will be payable on the interest-bearing deposits of transferor bank for a period of five years from the appointed date. Provided further that interest at the rate of 2.75 per cent per annum shall be paid on the retail deposits of the transferor bank (PMC) which shall be remaining outstanding after the said period of five years from the appointed date. This interest will be payable from the date after five years from the appointed date,” RBI said.

Institutional depositors

About 80% of uninsured institutional deposits will be converted into Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares (PNCPS) of Unity SFB with dividend of one per cent per annum payable annually.

After ten years from the appointed date, Unity SFB may consider additional benefits for PNCPS holders either in the form of providing a step up in coupon rate or a call option, upon receipt of approval from the Reserve Bank.

The remaining 20% of the institutional deposits will be converted into equity warrants of Unity SFB at a price of Re.1 per warrant. These equity warrants will further be converted into equity shares of the Unity SFB at the time of the Initial Public Offer (IPO) when it goes for one.

“In respect of every other liability of the transferor bank (PMC) the transferee bank (Unity) shall pay only the principal amounts, as and when they fall due,to the creditors in terms of the agreements entered between them prior to the appointed date or the terms and conditions agreed upon,” RBI said.

PMC Bank's institutional depositors may have to wait for Unity IPO to get money back

In June, RBI had given an in-principle approval to Unity SFB, a joint venture of Centrum Financial Services and Resilient Innovations Pvt. Ltd which runs payments company BharatPe to take over PMC. Unity started operations as recently as November 1.

PMC Bank had 137 branches and deposits of around Rs 11,600 crore, at the time restrictions were announced.

Employees

The draft also said all the employees of the PMC Bank shall continue in service on the same remuneration and terms and conditions of service for three years from the appointed date.

“The draft scheme provides much needed relief and clarity to over 1,100 PMC Bank employees, who will remain employed and continue uninterrupted service to clients,” USFB said in the statement.

The RBI said, “The transferee bank (USFB) may discontinue the services of the key managerial personnel of the transferor bank after following the due procedure at any time, after the appointed date, as it deems necessary and providing them compensation as per the terms of their employment”.



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Small finance banks, microlenders stay away from IPO party, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Kolkata: While Nykaa, Paytm and Policybazaar are the toast of the primary equity market now, lenders to the bottom of the pyramid which had earlier lured investors for their capacity to earn high margins remain laggards.

Half-a-dozen entities in the small finance bank and microfinance space that have received approval for raising funds through initial public offerings appear to be going slow because of valuation issues, people familiar with the matter said.

Among small finance banks, ESAF, Jana, Fincare and Utkarsh are said to be weighing investor interest for their proposed IPOs. Utkarsh Small Finance Bank received Securities & Exchange Board of India’s approval for IPO in June, Jana SFB got it in July and Fincare in August. ESAF Small Finance Bank received the regulator’s approval in October for the second time, after the one-year validity on the first lapsed in March.

Microfinance firm Arohan Financial Services received Sebi approval in April but has yet to hit the market. Northern Arc Capital, a non-bank lender with exposure to the financial inclusion space, got the approval in September.

“Many Lenders including those in the microfinance industry are not getting the kind of investor interest or valuation seen for primary issues of fintech firms,” said Donald D’Souza, managing director & co-head (investment banking) at Equirus.

“Some of these firms have done a few roadshows but have failed to attract investors at higher valuation. That’s the reason why some of these lenders are not seen in the IPO market despite the bull run. Even some small finance banks, which need to be listed within a specified time frame to meet regulations, are yet to be seen in this space,” D’Souza said.

Investors are apparently exercising caution as micro lenders are saddled with concerns over asset quality, high credit cost and squeezed margin following the pandemic-led stress on their borrowers.

The portfolio at risk for 30 days (PAR30+) for the microfinance sector remained high at 10.18% at the end of September, even after showing a sharp improvement from 16.56% three months earlier.

“The new-age companies are mostly making merry in the season of IPOs since investors are ready to pay huge premiums for new business models and fresh ideas. The party is on at least till Christmas. The valuations however are relatively muted for lending companies as investors are comparing them with the existing secondary market prices in the same segment,” said Dinesh Arora, partner and leader (deals) at PwC India.

As many as 52 companies have mobilised Rs 1.08 lakh crore from primary issuances in 2021 so far compared with Rs 26,600 crore raised by 15 companies last year. Foreign portfolio investors are said to have invested more than Rs 46,000 crore in IPOs this year.

Microfinance association Sa-Dhan said the average collection efficiency has increased to more than 95% in the quarter through September from 85% in the preceding quarter, even as 13 states and union territories including Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have their PAR30+ value higher than the industry average.



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Small finance banks, microlenders stay away from IPO party, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Kolkata: While Nykaa, Paytm and Policybazaar are the toast of the primary equity market now, lenders to the bottom of the pyramid which had earlier lured investors for their capacity to earn high margins remain laggards.

Half-a-dozen entities in the small finance bank and microfinance space that have received approval for raising funds through initial public offerings appear to be going slow because of valuation issues, people familiar with the matter said.

Among small finance banks, ESAF, Jana, Fincare and Utkarsh are said to be weighing investor interest for their proposed IPOs. Utkarsh Small Finance Bank received Securities & Exchange Board of India’s approval for IPO in June, Jana SFB got it in July and Fincare in August. ESAF Small Finance Bank received the regulator’s approval in October for the second time, after the one-year validity on the first lapsed in March.

Microfinance firm Arohan Financial Services received Sebi approval in April but has yet to hit the market. Northern Arc Capital, a non-bank lender with exposure to the financial inclusion space, got the approval in September.

“Many Lenders including those in the microfinance industry are not getting the kind of investor interest or valuation seen for primary issues of fintech firms,” said Donald D’Souza, managing director & co-head (investment banking) at Equirus.

“Some of these firms have done a few roadshows but have failed to attract investors at higher valuation. That’s the reason why some of these lenders are not seen in the IPO market despite the bull run. Even some small finance banks, which need to be listed within a specified time frame to meet regulations, are yet to be seen in this space,” D’Souza said.

Investors are apparently exercising caution as micro lenders are saddled with concerns over asset quality, high credit cost and squeezed margin following the pandemic-led stress on their borrowers.

The portfolio at risk for 30 days (PAR30+) for the microfinance sector remained high at 10.18% at the end of September, even after showing a sharp improvement from 16.56% three months earlier.

“The new-age companies are mostly making merry in the season of IPOs since investors are ready to pay huge premiums for new business models and fresh ideas. The party is on at least till Christmas. The valuations however are relatively muted for lending companies as investors are comparing them with the existing secondary market prices in the same segment,” said Dinesh Arora, partner and leader (deals) at PwC India.

As many as 52 companies have mobilised Rs 1.08 lakh crore from primary issuances in 2021 so far compared with Rs 26,600 crore raised by 15 companies last year. Foreign portfolio investors are said to have invested more than Rs 46,000 crore in IPOs this year.

Microfinance association Sa-Dhan said the average collection efficiency has increased to more than 95% in the quarter through September from 85% in the preceding quarter, even as 13 states and union territories including Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal have their PAR30+ value higher than the industry average.



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What role do anchor investors play in an IPO

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Two colleagues sharing a cab ride to office have money conversations.

Aruna: Markets are doing well. I wish I could make some extra money from it.

Sarika: Yes, same here. IPOs are quite the money-spinners today I hear.

Aruna: Yeah, more than half a dozen IPOs in August alone. My broker says to look at anchor investor book before applying.

Sarika: Who are anchor investors? Promoters?

Aruna: No. Anchor investors are institutional investors who are offered shares a day before the IPO opens.

Sarika: If some are buying shares ahead of IPO, are they not cutting our chances?

Aruna: Haha. Actually, anchor investments are a useful guide to other investors. They indicate whether there is demand for IPO offered.

Sarika: Do anchor investors get any discount?

Aruna: No. They are supposed to ‘anchor’ the issue by agreeing to subscribe to shares at a fixed price. Anchor investors can bid for shares at any price within the IPO price band.

Sarika: Then, how is this important? To me it seems just another share-sale!

Aruna: In a bull market, everything seems simple. But actually anchor investors are quite important for small investors. Unlike brokerages who simply put out IPO reports, anchor investors have skin in the game. Typically, they are mutual funds, insurance companies and foreign funds. They would have done better research.

Sarika: So, if the public issue has any problem, will the anchor investors give it a tepid response?

Aruna: Yes, Sari. There have been instances of some IPOs failing to mop up money from anchor investors, or anchor investors bidding at the lower end of the IPO price band.

Sarika: Oh, there is some method to the madness then! I was thinking they are like IPO brand ambassadors.

Aruna: Obviously there is a lot of at stake. Its real money that anchor investors put in and they can’t sell their shares for at least 30 days after the allotment. So, they have to be doubly sure.

Sarika: Where do I get anchor investor information?

Aruna: Anchor investor details are published in BSE Notices and NSE Circulars a day before the IPO opens for the public. The communique will mention shares allotted to each anchor investor, percentage of anchor investor portion allotted, value of shares allotted and so on.

Sarika: Interesting. In comparison to all the grey market premium (GMP) talk on upcoming IPOs, I suppose the anchor investor activity is a far better signal.

Aruna: Definitely. And we have reached office. Time to drop anchor here!

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CCEA clears LIC IPO; may hit market in Q4 of FY22

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The Initial Public Offer (IPO) of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) moved one more step with the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA) green-lighting it.

“The CCEA has given in-principle approval,” a senior government official told BusinessLIne. Although the IPO timeline is not set, it is expected to hit the market in the fourth quarter of 2020-21. Also, there is no clarity on the size of IPO, but experts expect this to be the largest ever in India. The Centre has already notified all amendments to the LIC Act, 1956 to facilitate the IPO.

Earlier this month, in an interview to BusinessLine, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said the LIC IPO “is on course”. However, she refused to give a timeline fearing it will lead to speculation.

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The CCEA nod is the second big move for the LIC IPO. On June 19, based on decisions by SEBI, the Finance Ministry notified relaxed norms for large companies planning to enter the stock market.

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The IPO of LIC is critical as the Government needs resources to meet its steeply stepped up spending to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. The Centre has set a target of mopping up ₹1.75-lakh crore through disinvestment, with ₹1-lakh crore expected from sale of stake in public sector banks and financial institutions. As on date, ₹7,645.7 crore has been collected.

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