SREI : Company Overview

Company Overview

Srei Infrastructure Finance Ltd. is one of India's leading Non Banking Financial Institutions and the only private sector infrastructure financing NBFI. It commenced its operations in 1989 with the objective of actively participating in nation building process and was visionary in selecting Infrastructure sector as its principal growth area. Today, Srei has developed expertise in financing of infrastructure equipment (for construction, mining, oil & gas, power and others), infrastructure projects, infrastructure development and advisory in all verticals of infrastructure. As a result, Srei has come to be recognised for innovation of financial instruments and offering customised solutions in the infrastructure space.

With a customer base of over 15,000, over Rs. 8,000 crore in 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.

Over the years, Srei has expanded its unique business model internationally. It has three offices in Russia and is in the process of replicating the model in many other countries. It enjoys a strong national presence with a network of 55 offices.

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 25,000 common service centres in six states and will offer a host of B2B, B2C and G2C services to 21 crore rural population.

In addition to infrastructure, Srei also offers a bouquet of allied financial services like capital market services, insurance broking and venture capital. These have not only helped to serve existing customers better, they have also grown into healthy stand-alone services.

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.