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IDFs yet to make significant impact in infrastructure financing space: Icra

06 Sep 2017 Evaluate

Raising concerns over the performance of infra debt funds (IDFs) which are investment vehicles for facilitating the flow of long-term debt to the infrastructure sector, credit rating agency, Icra has said that IDFs have failed to grow even after two years due to lack of good projects and banks’ troubles on asset quality and tepid credit growth, noting that they are yet to come of age and make a significant impact in the infrastructure financing space.

The rating agency said that availability of few operational projects with track record of satisfactory performance of one year and banks’ reluctance to shed these operational projects have dampened the growth of IDFs business. Icra further noted that they are likely to remain marginal players over the medium term and in order to maintain prudent economic capital levels, it suggested that IDF-NBFCs should raise capital over medium term as they also scale up and portfolio mix evolves.

As per Icra’s report, the total credit for IDF-NBFCs- where the IDF is set up as a company-has grown slightly by 1.2 per cent of banks’ exposure to the infrastructure sector, by increasing to Rs 11,200 crore in March 2017 and following the same trend of slower growth pace, the assets under management for IDF-Mutual Funds - where the IDF takes trust route - stood at Rs 2,900 crore as of June 2017.

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