 "IDFC Bank CEO, Rajiv Lall, Shriram Capital Ajay Piramal, R Thyagarajan")
IDFC and the Chennai-based Shriram group on Saturday said they had entered 90 days of merger talks.
Under the tentative arrangement, IDFC Ltd will be the holding company of the merged entity; Shriram City Union Finance, the retail lending arm of Shriram Capital, will be merged with IDFC Bank; and Shriram Transport Finance will be a fully owned subsidiary of IDFC, which will also own 75 per cent of the life and general insurance arms of Shriram Capital.
Disclosing this, Rajiv Lall, managing director of IDFC Bank, said it was a “complex transaction”.
“This is an exclusive arrangement for 90
