Srei : Company Overview

Company Overview

Srei is a Holistic Infrastructure Institution, constantly and consistently ideating to deliver innovative solutions in infrastructure space, thus playing a significant role in nation-building for over two decades, both in urban and rural India. Srei's businesses include Infrastructure Equipment Leasing & Finance, Infrastructure Project Finance, Advisory & Development, Insurance Broking, Venture Capital, Capital Market and Sahaj e -Village. Srei has a pan-India presence with a network of 63 offices and has also replicated its business model overseas with three offices in Russia. Srei is the first Indian infrastructure financing institution to get listed on the London Stock Exchange. Srei Equipment Finance Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture between Srei Infrastructure and BNP Paribas Lease Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas, is a Srei Group company engaged in Infrastructure Equipment Leasing and Financing Business.

With a customer base of over 15,000, over Rs. 12,000 crore in Consolidated Assets Under Management and total capital base of over Rs. 700 crore, Srei today has emerged as the largest player in a fiercely competitive market of infrastructure equipment financing. Srei has entered into a strategic alliance with BNP Paribas Lease Group, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas of France, for equipment financing business through a joint - venture. The JV will expand to financing in new areas such as agriculture equipment, medical equipment, information technology and other equipment classes.

Srei has taken the initiative of building rural infrastructure in the country on an information and technology platform under the National e-Governance Plan of the Government of India. This mega project envisages setting up nearly 29,000 common service centres in six states and will offer a host of B2B, B2C and G2C services over 30 crore rural population.

To broad base its shareholding, Srei was the first Indian Infrastructure Financing Institution to be listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) way back in 2005. Besides, many international institutions including International Finance Corporation (IFC) Washington (World Bank Group), KfW & DEG Germany (Financial Institutions owned by the Government of Germany), FMO (Financial Institution owned by the Government of Netherlands), BIO (Financial Institution owned by the Government of Belgium) and FINFUND (Financial Institution owned by the Government of Finland) are among the stakeholders in the Company.