Bajaj Housing Finance IPO will open on September 9: Company will raise ₹6,560 crore, price band will be announced on September 3

The date of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Bajaj Housing Finance Limited, a subsidiary of Bajaj Finance, has been revealed. This public issue will open for subscription on September 9 and close on September 11. The company has given this information in its Red Herring Prospectus (RHP). The size of this IPO will be Rs 6,560 crore. New shares worth Rs 3,560 will be issued in it. Also, there will be an Offer for Sale (OFS) of Rs 3,000 crore. Details of the price band will be released on September 3 According to the RHP filing, details of the price band will be released on September 3. Anchor investors will be able to bid in the IPO on September 6. SEBI approved the company's IPO in early August. Kotak Mahindra Capital Company, BofA Securities India, Axis Capital, JM Financial, IIFL Securities, Goldman Sachs India Securities and SBI Capital Markets are the book-running lead managers for this IPO. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas is the legal advisor. KFin Technologies is its registrar. The company had filed DRHP in June Earlier in June, Bajaj Housing Finance had filed Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) i.e. papers with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to bring IPO. Then the company had told that through this IPO, the company wants to raise Rs 7,000 crore. According to the DRHP of the company, Bajaj Housing Finance's proposed IPO will have a fresh issue of equity shares up to Rs 4,000 crore. Apart from this, parent company Bajaj Finance will sell equity shares of Bajaj Housing Finance worth Rs 3,000 crore through Offer for Sale (OFS). The company will meet capital requirements from the fund The company will use the funds raised from the fresh issue to meet future capital requirements by increasing its capital base. Bajaj Housing Finance is selling its shares to comply with the rules of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). NBFCs are required to be listed on stock exchanges As per RBI rules, upper-layer non-banking finance companies are required to be listed on stock exchanges by September 2025. This is the reason why Aadhar Housing Finance and India Shelter Finance have been listed on stock exchanges some time back. Bajaj Housing Finance is a non-deposit taking housing finance company registered with the National Housing Bank since September 2015. The company provides financial solutions It provides financial solutions for buying and renovating residential and commercial properties. Bajaj Finance included in the category of upper-layer NBFC RBI has placed Bajaj Finance in the category of upper-layer NBFC. It offers several mortgage products including home loans, loans against property, lease rental discounting and developer financing. In FY 2024, the assets and management of Bajaj Housing Finance stood at Rs 91,370 crore. In the first quarter of the current financial year 2024-25, April-June 2024, its net profit grew 5% year-on-year to Rs 483 crore. At the same time, the housing lender reported a net profit of Rs 1,731 crore for FY24, up 38% from Rs 1,258 crore in FY23. On June 6, the board of Bajaj Finance approved the sale of shares worth Rs 3,000 crore in the IPO of Bajaj Housing Finance. RBI announced the list of NBFCs in September On September 14, RBI announced the list of non-banking finance companies i.e. NBFCs for the year 2023-24. RBI had included 15 companies in the list of this upper layer NBFCs under scale based regulation. LIC Housing Finance tops this list. At the same time, Bajaj Finance is second, Shriram Finance third and Tata Sons Private Limited is at number four. In view of the increasing size of the NBFCs sector and the increasing impact of the associated risks on other sectors, the Reserve Bank had issued new rules for NBFCs from October 2022. In this, 4 categories of NBFCs have been created according to size and business. The purpose of the category is to increase the rules required for the company as it expands. In simple language, out of these, the rules for NBFCs-Upper Layer are almost the same as those given for banks. According to the rules, the top-10 NBFCs of the country remain in this list and apart from these, the Reserve Bank can include any other company in it if it wants.

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