Reliance Industries (RIL) announced the signing of a global partnership agreement in the Industrial IOT (IIOT) space whereby RIL and GE will work together to build out joint applications on GE's Predix platform. The partnership marks the coming together of two of the world's largest industrial conglomerates to provide Industrial IOT solutions to customers in oil & gas, fertilizer, power, healthcare, telecom and other industries. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 17 November 2016.
GE will provide its Predix cloud offering, Industrial Internet applications and data science expertise. RIL will develop solutions on Predix as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), bringing to bear its over 30 years of data, process and operational expertise. RIL will also offer nationwide connectivity infrastructure to customers through a 4G network powered by Jio. GE would offer the security, availability and monitoring aspects of the platform to RIL and its customers. The potential for other revenue streams includes telecom, healthcare and agriculture.
Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) will be in focus. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha yesterday, 17 November 2016 said that PGCIL has sought a loan assistance of $1,000 million from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) comprising of Sovereign guaranteed loan of $500 million and Non-Sovereign loan of $500 million. The Minister further informed that the loan would be utilized for funding of the transmission projects including a project under Green Energy Corridor projects in next 3-4 years.
Vedanta said that it proposes to offer rated secured redeemable non-convertible debentures aggregating to Rs 300 crore. In this regard, the company will hold a meeting of its duly constituted committee of the board on 22 November 2016. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 17 November 2016.
Canara Bank said it has revised deposit interest rates in different maturities in retail and bulk deposits in the range of 5 basis points (bps) to 25 bps and these are effective from 21 November 2016. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 17 November 2016.
Petronet LNG's net profit surged 81.72% to Rs 459.56 crore on 11.57% fall in total income to Rs 6705.88 crore in Q2 September 2016 over Q2 September 2015. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 17 November 2016.
Astral Poly Technik's consolidated net profit rose 43.94% to Rs 30.30 crore on 10.62% rise in total income to Rs 439.52 crore in Q2 September 2016 over Q2 September 2015. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 17 November 2016.
Punj Lloyd said that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Punj Lloyd Infrastructure (PLIL), has executed definitive agreements with India Power Green Utility (IPGUPL) to co-develop 30 megawatts (MW) of solar assets in Uttarakhand, in respect of three solar power projects, each of 10 MW capacity won by PLIL under the tariff based competitive bidding process in October 2015 to be executed by its wholly owned subsidiaries (WOS) viz. PL Surya Vidyut, PL Sunrays Power, and PL Solar Renewable. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 17 November 2016.
As per the transaction, PLIL will divest 49% of its shareholding in its three subsidiaries viz. PL Surya Vidyut, PL Sunrays Power and PL Solar Renewable. The SPV's have signed 25 years power purchase agreements with Uttarakhand Power Corporation. The company shall be responsible for the entire engineering, procurement and commissioning of the above projects. The transaction is expected to be completed once customary closing conditions and approvals are obtained. Greenstone Energy Advisors is acting as the exclusive financial advisor to PLIL for the transaction.
IIFL Holdings said that its Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) subsidiary, India Infoline Finance (IIFL), proposes to acquire the management and control of Bangalore-based Samasta Microfinance (Samasta), an NBFC - Micro Finance Institution (NBFC-MFI) registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), through acquisition of upto 100% equity shares of Samasta subject to completion of necessary due diligence, regulatory and other internal approvals. Pursuant to this, IIFL, Samasta and the promoters of Samasta will enter into necessary agreements and documents to effect sale and purchase shares of Samasta in due course upon completion of due diligence, internal approvals and regulatory process.
Samasta promoted by Narayanswamy Venkatesh and Deviah Shivaprasad, first generation entrepreneurs, began operations as an MFI in March 2008 and operates in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa through 64 branches. It currently has an AUM of about Rs 100 crore as on 30 September 2016. The proposed acquisition of Samasta will help IIFL to enter into micro finance segment and extend its wide ranging financial services to their large customer base. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 17 November 2016.
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