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The combined market valuation of three of the top-10 most valued firms jumped Rs 1,06,125.98 crore in holiday-shortened last week, with HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank emerging as the biggest gainers. Last week, the BSE benchmark Sensex climbed 217.13 points or 0.28 per cent. While HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Infosys were the gainers from the top-10 pack, Reliance Industries, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Bharti Airtel, State Bank of India, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), Hindustan Unilever and ITC faced a combined erosion to the tune of Rs 1,01,769.1 crore. The market capitalisation (mcap) of HDFC Bank zoomed Rs 52,091.56 crore to Rs 12,67,056.69 crore. ICICI Bank added Rs 36,118.99 crore taking its valuation to Rs 8,13,914.89 crore. The mcap of Infosys climbed Rs 17,915.43 crore to Rs 6,35,945.80 crore. However, the market valuation of Reliance Industries tumbled Rs 32,271.31 crore to Rs 19,66,686.57 crore. LIC lost Rs 27,260.74 crore from its mcap which stood at Rs 6,47,
Securitisation volumes have grown 35 per cent to over Rs 1 lakh crore in the first half of the current fiscal, domestic ratings agency Crisil said on Thursday. The overall volume of securitisation -- wherein one lender bunches up a loan or a set of loans and passes on the future receivables to another financier against an upfront payment -- had stood at Rs 75,000 crore in the April to September period, it said. It attributed the jump in activity to banks' continued interest in retail assets, and strong credit growth among originating Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs). The volume remained unfazed by the exit of a large housing finance company (HFC) from the securitisation space in the second quarter of this fiscal, following its merger with an affiliate bank. "The exit of one of the largest originators last quarter has been more than made up by other financiers. The overall first-half volume is now trending in line with pre-pandemic levels when the FY20 volume had touched Rs 1