Bank of India seeks first dollar syndicated loan worth $400 million in more than a decade: Report
Live MintBank of India said it is marketing its first dollar syndicated loan since 2012 of as much as $400 million. The lender is raising the loan — split into three- and five-year tranches — via its branch located in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, Rajesh V Upadhya, company secretary at Bank of India said in an email reply to a Bloomberg News query, confirming an earlier report. Reliance Industries Ltd. is looking to borrow as much as $3 billion, in what could be the largest loan from the country since 2023, while Shriram Finance Ltd. is planning to syndicate part of a $1.28 billion multi-currency social financing, the biggest ever offshore deal from an Indian shadow lender. Meanwhile, State Bank of India is marketing a ¥30 billion syndicated facility, and also plans to raise as much as $1.25 billion in what could be the country’s biggest dollar loan from the banking sector this year.