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ECBs decline by 3.1% to $1.89 billion in June 2014

23 Jul 2014 Evaluate

Borrowings by Indian companies from overseas markets declined by 3.1 percent to $1.89 billion in June 2014 from $1.95 billion recorded in same month of previous year. Among the companies raising money abroad during June, 55 firms borrowed $1.30 billion through automatic route and 14 raised $583.7 million from approval route.

Company wise, in approval route category, state-owned carrier Air India raised $149.5 million in two tranches for import of capital goods and SCI Forbes raised $35.25 million to refinance earlier ECB. HPCL-Mittal Pipelines raised $262.5 million in two separate tranches for refinancing of earlier ECB.

In the automatic route, Reliance Industries borrowed $238.02 million for import of capital goods and India Oil Corporation raised $650 million to refinance earlier ECB. Construction major Larsen & Toubro raised $100 million for rupee expenditure. Among others, Hero Cycles borrowed money for overseas acquisition, Lotte India Corporation for new project, Aditya Birla Nuvo for refinancing of earlier ECB and Technofab Engineering for modernization of manufacturing facilities.

An external commercial borrowing (ECB) is an instrument used in India to facilitate the access to foreign money by Indian corporations and PSUs (public sector undertakings). ECB include commercial loans in the form of bank loans, buyers’ credit, suppliers’ credit, securitized instruments (e.g. floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds, non-convertible, optionally convertible or partially convertible preference shares) availed of from non-resident lenders with a minimum average maturity of 3 years. ECBs cannot be used for investment in stock market or speculation in real estate.

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