Indian Companies garner $3.37 bn overseas fund in May

07 Jul 2012 Evaluate

Reserve Bank of India reported that the Indian companies garnered about Rs 18,630 crore ($3.37 billion) in May, whereas it garnered $2.73 billion in April from the same route. The money raised was for fund modernization, foreign acquisitions, import of capital goods and onward lending.

Eighty Indian companies have raised the overseas fund. Out of this 71 firms raised $935 million via automatic route through  external commercial borrowings (ECBs) and foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCB), while 7 firms raised $2.43 billion was through the approval route, requiring case-by-case approval from RBI.

Reliance Industries raised $2 billion under approval route for import of capital goods. While, the state run carrier Air India raised $195.5 million during the month for import of capital goods. EXIM Bank and SREI Equipment Finance have garnered about $100 million each for onward/sub-lending and import of capital goods respectively.

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