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The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Tuesday approved the proposed Rs 4,630-crore deal, wherein private equity major Warburg Pincus will acquire Shriram Finance's arm Shriram Housing Finance. "The proposed combination envisages inter alia the acquisition of shareholding in Shriram Housing Finance Ltd by Mango Crest Investment Ltd," CCI said in a release. Mango Crest Investment Ltd undertakes investment holding activities. It is an affiliate of US-based Warburg Pincus. Shriram Housing Finance Ltd is a housing finance company registered with the National Housing Bank. In May this year, financial services firm Shriram Finance announced the sale of its housing finance arm to private equity major Warburg Pincus for Rs 4,630 crore to focus on the vehicle finance and small business lending. Under the deal, SHF will be acquired by Warburg Pincus through its affiliate Mango Crest Investment Ltd from all the sellers. The proposed transaction is valued at Rs 4,630 crore for equity a
Mortgage lender Shriram Housing Finance is looking at around 50-60 per cent increase in loan disbursement to Rs 1,800 crore in the current financial year, a top company official said. The company, promoted by Shriram City Union Finance, had disbursed Rs 1,127 crore in the fiscal ended March 31, 2020. In the first quarter, we didn't do much business. Despite that, in FY21, we will do about 50-60 per cent more business than what we did in FY20. We will end this year with a disbursement of Rs 1,800 crore, the company's managing director and CEO Ravi Subramanian told PTI. In the first quarter of the current fiscal, the housing financier disbursed Rs 77.4 crore, a decline of 68.1 per cent year-on-year, owing to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. In the second quarter of FY21, it disbursed around Rs 520 crore, which was 20-25 per cent more than what it disburses in every quarter, he said. The biggest tumbling block was COVID-19 in Q1, but we have c