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 safefinance 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: 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: 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&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: F&A0518Pages: 8Published on: 1, December, 2015
Abstract: The case presents a context of irrational pricing in a stock and demonstrates the possible role of investor heuristics operating in the financial markets. The case is ideal in a course on behavioral finance to teach topics like the limits to arbitrage or the influence of various heuristics in financial ... More
Reference No: F&A0578Pages: 9Published on: 29, August, 2025
Abstract: The case explores the intricacies of debt refinancing decisions in the context of large real estate assets. Neelima Patel, representing Roha Foods—a business-to-business food product supplier—faced a crucial financial decision. Having financed the company's expansion with a floating-rate mortgage loan from Cuttak Bank, she was now presented ... More
Reference No: F&A0453Pages: 13Published on: 26, April, 2000
Abstract: The case deals with strategic corporate finance issues in the backdrop of the economic downturn of 1997 in Thailand. The case presents a situation in which the foreign exchange losses arising from a steep depreciation of currency threatens to wipe out the networth of the company. The company faces bankruptcy, if ... More
Reference No: CMA0571(A)Pages: 29Published on: 1, January, 1983
Abstract: The union is a loss-making unit of a state corporation. Each division claims to operate best. The case depicts overall management and marketing systems. It establishes the linkages between various departments and costing systems. The effect of costing systems and price policy raises issues of management and linkages. ... More
Reference No: F&A0452Pages: 10 Published on: 26, April, 2000
Abstract: Set in the backdrop of the 1997 economic crisis, the case deals with the problem faced by a leading finance company of Thailand, Phatra Thanakit. The company finds its very existence threatened under the onslaught of the crisis, and faces a number of agonizing choices. Should it become an integrated bank? ... More
Reference No: F&A0435Pages: 35Published on: 9, March, 1996
Abstract: This case describes the first power project with foreign financing using project finance after `liberalization' of the Indian economy. It provides an opportunity for analyzing the risks in such projects and the manner in which they are contracted out. Students can also address questions of appropriate capital structure and return ... More
Reference No: CMA0256Pages: 5Published on: 6, December, 1973
Abstract: In this case a bank managers experiences in financing farmers for agricultural production are studied. The case also poses the problem of scrutinizing loan applications supervising farm-finance operations of the bank. ... More
Reference No: F&A0488Pages: 20Published on: 13, October, 2010
Abstract: The case discusses the choices relating to seasoned equity issuance for ICICI Bank, one of India's largest banking and financial services conglomerates, in mid 2007 shortly before the global financial crisis begins to unfold. In this context, the case raises issues about the size and timing of equity issuance. It also ... More