Reliance Commercial Finance, the lending division of Reliance Capital, is planning to step up lending to the small and medium enterprise and the infrastructure segments, even as it winds down its entire unsecured portfolio by the end of the current fiscal. This move is in keeping with the non-banking financial company's strategy of lending only to productive segments and not for consumption
The company currently has a loan book of Rs 15,035 crore and is expecting a 20 per cent growth in credit in the current fiscal. It has drawn up plans to increase the share of loans to infrastructure to 25 per cent, by 2015, from the current 2 per cent. Similarly, the share of loans to SMEs would increase to 25 per cent from 20 per cent, while that of mortgages will decrease to 35 per cent from 44 per cent, and commercial vehicle loans to 15 per cent from 19 per cent
Currently, loans to the infrastructure sector account for around Rs 300 crore. RCF is targeting smaller projects such as EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) contractors or sub-contractors working for larger companies involved in BOT (build operate and transfer) projects. A small loan in this segment would be in the range of Rs 25-30 crore. The company is also looking at tying up with micro-finance institutions (MFIs) to lend to the micro and small enterprises segment.
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