ICICI Bank mandates 10 global banks to raise $1.5 billion loan
04 Sep 2007
Mumbai: Close on the heels of raising $5 billion through a public offer, country''s largest private lender ICICI Bank has mandated ten international banks to arrange a Japanese yen equivalent loan of $1.5 billion (about Rs6,100 crore).
The funding, the biggest-ever offshore syndicated loan facility by an Indian financial institution, would be used for general corporate purposes.
The
ten banks mandated for the funding include BNP Paribas,
Galyon, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank and
Sumitomo Mitsui, sources said.
The
debt raising exercise follows the bank''s follow-on public
offer in domestic and international markets in June this
year. ICICI Bank had raised about Rs10,000 crore from
the domestic market through issue of equity shares, and
an equivalent amount through a secondary offering of American
depository shares in the US.