The two insurance subsidiaries of the crippled mortgage lender Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL) are unlikely to be impacted by the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings of their parent as they continue to have adequate solvency ratios, Irdai chairman SC Khuntia said on Friday. He also asked insurance companies to write off their exposure to the bankrupt DHFL as they did in case of IL&FS. DHFL, admitted for bankruptcy proceedings on December 3, has two insurance joint ventures -- DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance and DHFL General Insurance. DHFL Pramerica Life, launched in 2008, is a joint venture between DHFL Investments, a wholly-owned arm of DHFL, and Prudential International Insurance Holdings of the US, has Rs 4,675 crore assets under management and employs 3,100. DHFL General Insurance, on the other hand, is a fully-owned subsidiary of Wadhawan Global Capital, the holding company of the HDFL Group, and manages USD 18.6 billion assets through its lending, investment and ...
As of July 6, the company had public deposits worth Rs 6,188 crore
Note suggests liquidity support, govt guarantee for securities issued by SPVs
DHFL is the first financial services firm that will undergo insolvency proceedings at the NCLT
The third largest pure-play mortgage player has been in liquidity crisis for long and on November 20 the RBI had superseded its board and placed under an administrator
The RBI seized control of Dewan Housing on Wednesday, stepping up efforts to contain the economic fallout from the nation's shadow banking crisis
An interim moratorium on the assets of the beleaguered company has also commenced following the RBI's application, and will continue till it is accepted or rejected by the NCLT
DHFL, once one of India's top shadow lenders, owes its creditors - which include mutual funds, banks, pension funds, insurance firms and retail investors - close to Rs 1 trillion
Experts are also of the view that the fund houses would have to take a haircut, much against their wish of incurring any such paring down of their refunds
"The administrator and the advisory committee will require some time to formulate the working modalities," DHFL stated
Investigation report has not gone into the involvement of banks and officials
Banks have an exposure of Rs 38,000 crore in DHFL, which owes Rs 84,000 crore to mutual funds, retail depositors, and others
The inspection report submitted by the Regional Director (Western Region) has not gone into the involvement of banks and officials
The state has started the process of disinvesting the PF corpus in LIC Housing Finance and PNB Housing Finance
The government order issued by Principal Secretary (Power) Arvind Kumar said all legal options would be explored for the recovery of the money
DHFL was scheduled to announce its financial result on November 25
The committee would comprise of Rajiv Lall, non-executive chairman, IDFC First Bank Ltd, N S Kannan, managing director and CEO, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd, and NS Vekatesh, CEO Amfi
The potential write-off would place an additional burden on Indian banks already struggling with $130 billion of bad loans, one of the highest levels in the world
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