SKS Microfinance to shift headquarters to Mumbai on hostile business environment in AP

10 May 2012 Evaluate

India’s largest micro-lender SKS Microfinance will move its headquarters from Hyderabad to Mumbai on account of stifling rules and a hostile business environment in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The company’s board has too cleared the decision to move the registered office to Mumbai. The decision sends firm indication to the Andhra Pradesh government that has come down heavily on microfinance institutions (MFIs), including SKS, following the passage of a new law.

The AP Government’s rules comes at a time SKS Microfinance, the only listed microfinance institutions, is positioning itself as a national company with a growing presence in other states. The company has reduced its Andhra Pradesh exposure and its future receivables from the state are zero.

The company's exposure to borrowers in Andhra Pradesh has shrunk considerably, having written off Rs 1,491crore loans in the past six quarters. Its loan outstanding in Andhra is down to Rs 236 crore.

However, the company will carry on running 180 branches in the state, and has hired an external agency to recover loans. The company, which came under the glare of the media and the government after its stunning IPO in 2010, has possibly sensed the risk of concentrating business in one state.

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