印度政府宣布将这家国有银行多数股权以超过5290亿卢比（55亿美元）的价格出售给加拿大公司Fairfax Financial Holdings后，IDBI银行的股价周四下跌超过7%。
Shares of IDBI Bank fell more than 7% Thursday after the Indian government announced a majority stake sale in the state-owned bank to Canadian firm Fairfax Financial Holdings for over 529 billion rupees ($5.5 billion).
印度财政部周三在一份声明中表示，待最终审批完成后，这笔交易将成为印度金融领域最大的外国直接投资交易。
Once the final approvals are in place, the deal will mark the largest foreign direct investment transaction in India's financial sector, India's Ministry of Finance said in a release on Wednesday.
该部称：“由于财务状况不佳，[IDBI]银行需要多次注资。”声明还指出，在短暂复苏后，政府决定将这家银行60.7%的股份出售给一位“战略买家”。在招标过程中，政府确定IDBI股票的公允价值平均为每股75.99卢比。根据政府声明，Fairfax的中标报价为每股81卢比。
"Due to its poor financial health, the [IDBI] Bank required repeated infusion of capital," the ministry said, adding that after a brief recovery, the government decided to sell a 60.7% stake in the bank to a "Strategic Buyer." During the bidding process, the government arrived at an average fair value of IDBI shares at 75.99 rupees apiece. Fairfax's winning bid offered a price of 81 rupees per share, as per the government release.
周三，IDBI银行的收盘价报90.39卢比，高于Fairfax的中标价格。Fairfax需要向印度银行监管机构——印度储备银行提交资质证明，以接受“适格性评估”。印度财政部长尼尔玛拉·西塔拉曼周三在X平台上发帖称：“在支持该银行实现复苏之后，我们现在通过引入外国直接投资来推动其进入下一阶段的增长，同时保留少数股权。”
Shares of IDBI had closed at 90.39 rupees on Wednesday, higher than Fairfax's winning bid. Fairfax will need to present credentials to the Indian banking regulator, the Reserve Bank of India, for a "fit and proper assessment." "Having supported the bank's recovery, we are now enabling its next phase of growth through the infusion of Foreign Direct Investment while retaining a minority stake," India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a post on X Wednesday.
她补充说，Fairfax的投资进一步证明，“印度的增长故事依然强劲，其经济具有韧性，而政府推进改革的决心坚定不移。”今年早些时候，印度政府已出售了包括科钦造船厂、印度铁路金融公司、NHPC和印度煤炭公司等多家公司的股份。8月份，该国通过出售国内最大人寿保险公司——印度人寿保险公司的6.5%股权，获得了33亿美元收入。
She added that Fairfax's investment reinforced that "India's growth story is strong, its economy is resilient, and the government's commitment to reform is unwavering." The Indian government has sold shares in several companies, including Cochin Shipyard, Indian Railways Finance Corp, NHPC, and Coal India, earlier this year. In August, it raked in $3.3 billion by selling a 6.5% stake in the country's top life insurer, Life Insurance Corporation of India.
面对日益加剧的财政压力，印度政府今年一直在减持多家国有公司的股份，以努力维持国家增长引擎的持续运转。
The government has been divesting its stake in several state-owned companies this year as it pushes to keep the country's growth engine running amid deepening fiscal pressures.