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Blackstone to buy about 16% stake in India's IIFL Finance for $535 million

Reuters

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Blackstone ‌will invest 50 billion Indian rupees ($535 ​million) ‌for an approximately 16% stake ‌in India's IIFL Finance, as part of a ‌64.14 billion rupee capital raise, the non-banking financial company said on Tuesday.

The issue ⁠will also include a ‌12.64 billion rupee ⁠investment by existing investors Nirmal ​Jain and R. Venkataraman, while Anchorage Capital ​will invest another 1.5 ​billion ‌rupees.

The investment will raise IIFL ​Finance's capital adequacy ⁠ratio to about ‌30% from 17%, ​the ​company said.

The additional capital will support growth in its secured lending businesses, particularly gold ‌finance, and could help improve its credit ratings ‌and ​lower borrowing costs over time. ($1 = 93.9275 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Nishit Navin in Bengaluru; ‌Editing by Jochelle Mendonca)