Reliance Home Finance In talks with investors for equity infusion

Reliance Home Finance Ltd (RHFL) on Friday said it is in discussion with several investors for equity infusion, amid tight financial conditions plaguing the industry for the past few months. Since the IL&FS episode, all categories of lenders in India, including banks, mutual funds have put an almost complete freeze on additional lending to home finance companies (HFCs) and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), and have instead only been insisting upon reduction of existing borrowings, it said in a release. Over this entire period, lenders have been willing to only securitise existing asset polls of HFCs and NBFCs to provide resources for meeting debt servicing obligations, it said. These unprecedented actions lasting for more than 6 months have severely impacted the financial flexibility of almost all HFCs and NBFCs in the country including RHFL. The company has been affected by a timing mismatch with regard to the ongoing further securitisation or monetisation proposals with banks, and the same has resulted in minor delay on principal repayments aggregating to only Rs 542 crore to around 5-6 banks and limited to only its bank borrowings, it said.