Rel Money not to pursue Dubai Mercantile offer

"We had received private placement memorandum from Dubai Mercantile Exchange but we are not looking to pick up a stake at this point of time," Reliance Money CEO Sudip Bandyopadhyay said.     

According to the industry sources, DME, which is backed by New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) has approached a few more Indian entities for a possible stake sale, but none of them are interested in the Dubai bourse.      

"DME's businesses do not offer a lucrative market for Indian commodity trading players and it is unlikely that any Indian player would be interested in pursuing such a deal," a senior official at a leading commodity exchange said.     

Foreign media reports have quoted DME Chairman Ahmad Sharaf saying that DME is considering an initial public offering as one of its options for future growth.

Reports have also stated that DME is planning to sell a stake of up to 20 per cent to help boost liquidity and attract more global players.     

Dubai government and NYMEX holds 32.5 per cent stake each in the DME, while the Oman government owns 30 per cent and the DME members hold 5 per cent respectively.     

DME has developed and list the Oman Crude Oil Futures contract, which addresses the growing market need for price discovery of Middle East Sour Crude Oil, while simultaneously bridging the time-zone gap between Europe and Asia and North America.