Reference No: F&A0577Pages: 25Published on: 20, March, 2025
Abstract: Mindspace Business Parks REIT, one of India’s premier commercial real estate investment trusts, faced a critical challenge in 2023: managing rising interest rates while pursuing sustainable growth. With a portfolio valued at INR 298 billion and a commitment to green development, Mindspace pioneered India’s first green bond issuance at the ... More
Reference No: CMA0615TECPages: 5Published on: 1, January, 1985
Abstract: Deals with RBI's definitions of direct and indirect finance for agriculture, and the data on relative importance of these two types of rural credit in India. The note also raises questions for discussing (a) the rationale for indirect finance, (b) purposes which have a direct bearing on the backward and ... More
Reference No: F&A0560Pages: 18Published on: 13, July, 2021
Abstract: The case describes the change in fortune of Reliance Communications (RCom) from being a pioneer in offering low-cost mobile telephony to the brink of bankruptcy. After giving a brief background on the family history of Reliance Industries, its break-up and the launch of RCom, it describes the changing dynamics of ... More
Reference No: CIIE0021Pages: 16Published on: 15, October, 2020
Abstract: This case describes the evolution of MHFC, a player in the Indian informal housing sector. As a new entrant offering micro home loans to the financially excluded lower income families of urban India in 2008, MHFC had grown to an annual number of 18,000 loans worth INR 8 billion with an average ticket ... More
Reference No: ECO0073Pages: 7Published on: 1, January, 1966
Abstract: Deals with problems faced by a finance corporation at its first underwriting of an issue. The main problem was the weighing of claims of safe finance versus development finance. The industry involved is the paper industry and questions on estimates of demand for paper arise. ... More
Reference No: CMA0770EXPages: 5Published on: 1, January, 1998
Abstract: This case seeks to examine the rationale for innovating indirect agricultural credit portfolios of RFIs and the recent changes in these portfolios of priority sector credit. It also seeks to examine the policy of common lending interest rates for direct credit and indirect agricultural credit, besides non-agricultural credit. ... More
Reference No: CMA0491TECPages: 9Published on: 1, January, 1979
Abstract: Forest Development corporations have been formed in 16 state and Union Territories in India with the objective of intensive forest management through facilitating the flow of institutional finance. The note discusses the procedures and problems of acquiring institutional finance for forestry development projects. Steps to enhance bankability of such projects have ... More
Reference No: STR0450Pages: 22Published on: 24, October, 2020
Abstract: Government of India constituted ‘Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)’ on 10 December 2009; as a Joint Venture of four Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSU) of India - NTPC Limited (NTPC), Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC), Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID) and Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) to improve energy efficiency ... More
Reference No: MAR0338(B)Pages: 11Published on: 30, March, 2000
Abstract: The case focuses on the use of secondary source data to perform segmentation analysis. There is ample opportunity to structure the business problem based on the symptoms described. The case is based on a moderately sized credit card company in mid-West United States. ... More
Reference No: CMA0768Pages: 11Published on: 1, January, 1998
Abstract: This case deals with the methodology for estimating agricultural input distribution credit requirement. It also aims at examining the consistency of the existing credit portfolio for input distribution business and seeks to evolve alternative criterian for existing banking practices particularly in backward areas where PACS are defunct. It further seeks ... More
Reference No: CMA0760Pages: 5Published on: 1, January, 1997
Abstract: This case discusses a change in organizational structure of the Agricultural Finance Department of ABC Bank to highlight how it has helped in streamlining the operations. Issues such as more autonomy and decentralization, thrust, on new product development by the officials, etc. are emphasized. ... More
Reference No: CMA0546(A)Pages: 27Published on: 1, January, 1981
Abstract: The case deals with a feasibility study of setting up a sugarcane plant in an underdeveloped country, viz. Liberia in West Africa. It deals with the problems of how to make mid-course corrections when the assumptions made in the feasibility have gone wrong. It is given along with the exercises ... More
Reference No: CMA0823Pages: 19Published on: 15, April, 2021
Abstract: The agricultural financial market in India was still underdeveloped, in part because the formal financial sector viewed the rural population in general and agriculture, in particular, to be high-risk. Warehouse receipt financing (WHR Financing) is a financial instrument that provides farmers and traders with access to working capital by allowing ... More
Reference No: BP0167Pages: 8Published on: 1, January, 1977
Abstract: Sets out an industrialist's response to demands, pressures, and threats to help the Congress Party financially during the Emergency. After briefly introducing the subject of political finance by businesses, the first part discusses the relevant political environment during Emergency, the industry and the industrialist, and the types and nature of ... More
Reference No: F&A0512Pages: 23Published on: 2, January, 2014
Abstract: This case describes the use of securitization by Microfinance institutions. Even though securitization with tranching received a bad name during the financial crisis it can be used to relax financial constraints for Microfinance institutions which provide loans to the poor. The case elaborates how IFMR Trust Pioneer II facilitates a ... More
