Billion-Dollar Confidence: Abu Dhabi’s IHC Fuels New Dawn for NBFC Stocks

Abu Dhabi-based International Holding Company (IHC) has made a landmark $1 billion investment to acquire a 43.5% controlling stake in Sammaan Capital Limited (formerly Indiabulls Housing Finance), spotlighting renewed foreign confidence in India’s NBFC space. This deal signals a strategic entry of IHC into India’s financial services sector and marks the largest-ever primary capital infusion by a single foreign investor into an Indian NBFC.

 

Key Highlights

This infusion is expected to strengthen Sammaan Capital’s balance sheet, expand credit access, and accelerate growth in India’s burgeoning housing finance market. The deal is a clear green light for NBFC stocks, boosting sector optimism in the broader financial ecosystem.

 

Source: Financial Express, Times of India,  Moneycontrol