MIRA INFORM REPORT

 

 

 

Report Date :

31.07.2008

 

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

 

Name :

SBI LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED

 

 

Registered Office :

State Bank Bhavan, Madam Cama Road, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021, Maharashtra

 

 

Country :

India

 

 

Date of Incorporation :

11.10.2000

 

 

Com. Reg. No.:

11-129113

 

 

CIN No.:

[Company Identification No.]

U99999MH2000PLC129113

 

 

TAN No.:

[Tax Deduction & Collection Account No.]

MUMS27599F

 

 

PAN No.:

[Permanent Account No.]

AAFCS2530P

 

 

Legal Form :

A closely held public limited liability company.

 

 

Line of Business :

Service Providers of Insurance Services

 

 

RATING & COMMENTS

 

MIRA’s Rating :

Aa

 

RATING

STATUS

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

Large

 

Status :

Good

 

 

Payment Behaviour :

Regular

 

 

Litigation :

Clear

 

 

Comments :

Promoters of the subject are strong and reliable. Fundamentals are strong. Trade relations are fair. Payments are correct.

 

Subject can be considered good for any normal business dealings.

 

It can be regarded as a promising business partner.

 

Top level management also declined Annual Report. 

 

 

LOCATIONS

 

Registered Office :

State Bank Bhavan, Madam Cama Road, Nariman Point, Mumbai – 400 021, Maharashtra, India

Tel. No.:

91-22-66392000

Fax No.:

91-22-66392025

E-Mail :

manju.anand@sbilife.co.in

parind.badshah@sbilife.co.in

Website :

www.sbilife.com

 

 

Mailing Address :

2nd Floor, Turner Morrison Building, G N Vaidya Marg, Fort, Mumbai – 400 023, Maharashtra, India

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

Name :

Mr. Arun Kumar Purwar

Designation :

Chairman

Address :

5 Dunedin, JM Metha Road, Mumbai – 400 006, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

14.05.1946

Date of Appointment :

30.12.2002

 

 

Name :

Mr. Krishnamurthy Rajagopalan

Designation :

Managing Director

Address :

C-6, Kinellan, 100-A, Nepean Sea Road, Mumbai – 400 006, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

12.02.1944

Date of Appointment :

03.11.2000

 

 

Name :

Mr. Krishnamurthy Sankaran

Designation :

Managing Director

Address :

D-2, Kinellan, 100-A, Nepean Sea Road, Mumbai – 400 006, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

05.01.1947

Date of Appointment :

01.03.2004

 

 

Name :

Mr. Ashok Kini

Designation :

Director

Address :

D-6, Kinellan, 100-A, Nepean Sea Road, Mumbai – 400 006, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

12.12.1945

Date of Appointment :

01.04.2004

 

 

Name :

Mr. Paul Francois Marine Jean Villemagne

Designation :

Director

Address :

Cardif SA, Siege-Social, 5 Avenue Kleber, 75798, Paris - 382983922, France

Date of Birth/Age :

15.05.1942

Date of Appointment :

14.06.2001

 

 

Name :

Mr. Gerard Yues Binet

Designation :

Director

Address :

19, Route De La Passerelle Le Vesinet – 781130, France

Date of Birth/Age :

30.04.1953

Date of Appointment :

14.06.2001

 

 

Name :

Mr. Pierre Hubert De Villeneuve

Designation :

Director

Address :

Cardif SA, Siege-Social, 5 Avenue Kleber, 75798, Paris - 382983922, France

Date of Birth/Age :

26.08.1948

Date of Appointment :

14.06.2001

 

 

Name :

Mr. Pier-paolo Nicola Dipaola

Designation :

Director

Address :

Cardif SA, Siege-Social, 5 Avenue Kleber, 75798, Paris - 382983922, France

Date of Birth/Age :

13.12.1958

Date of Appointment :

14.06.2001

 

 

Name :

Mr. Rajendra Singh Lodha

Designation :

Director

Address :

8, National Tower, 13 Loudon Street, Kolkata – 700 017, West Bengal, India

Date of Birth/Age :

06.09.1942

Date of Appointment :

05.03.2002

 

 

Name :

Mr. Ravi Sankar Lingam

Designation :

Director

Address :

Anugraha No.23 (Old No.2), Arunachalam Road, Kotturpuram, Chennai – 600 085, Tamilnadu, India

Date of Birth/Age :

31.08.1958

Date of Appointment :

05.03.2002

 

 

Name :

Mrs. Swati Ajay Piramal

Designation :

Director

Address :

95, Benzer Terraces, 4th Floor, Abdul Gaffar Road, Worli Sea Face, Mumbai – 400 018, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

28.03.1956

Date of Appointment :

05.03.2002

 

 

Name :

Mr. Eric Lombard

Designation :

Director

Address :

10 Rue Garanciere, Paris, France

Date of Appointment :

30.04.2007

 

 

KEY EXECUTIVES

 

Name :

Mrs. Jotika Chanderdev Singh

Designation :

Secretary

Address :

506 WGU, WGU Road, Mumbai – 400 025, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

16.12.1974

Date of Appointment :

22.09.2003

 

 

Name :

Mr. Parind Chandrakant Badshah

Designation :

Secretary

Address :

303, Rajneelam, Dr. R P Road, Breach Candy, Mumbai – 400 026, Maharashtra, India

Date of Birth/Age :

03.03.1972

Date of Appointment :

15.03.2007

 

 

MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS / SHAREHOLDING PATTERN

 

(As on 06.07.2004)

Names of Shareholders

No. of Shares

State Bank of India

129499994

Krishnamurthy Sankaran

1

Asim Ratan Samajdar

1

Cardif SA

45500000

S Chandrashekhar

1

Subramanian Narayanan

1

Anup Chandak

1

Ganesh Ramani

1

 

Equity share breakup (percentage of total equity)

(As on 30.07.2008)

Category

Percentage

Nationalised or other banks

74.00

Foreign holdings (Foreign institutional investor(s), Foreign companie(s) Foreign financial institution(s), Non-resident indian(s) or Overseas corporate bodies or Others

26.00

Total

100.00

 

 

BUSINESS DETAILS

 

Line of Business :

Service Providers of Insurance Services

 

 

Products :

Individual Products

·         Unit Linked Products:

·         Pension Products

·         Pure Protection Products

·         Protection cum Savings Products

·         Money Back Scheme Products

 

Group Products

·         Retirement Solutions

·         Protection Plans

·         Specialized Term Insurance

·         SBI Life - Swadhan (Group

·         SBI Life - Dhanaraksha Plus

·         SBI Life - Nidhi Raksha Plus

 

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Bankers :

Not Available

 

 

 

Banking Relations :

Good

 

 

Auditors :

 

Name :

M P Chitale and Company

Chartered Accountants

Address : Hamam House, Ambalal Dhosi Marg, Fort, Mumbai – 400 001, Maharashtra, India

 

B K Khare and Company

Chartered Accountants

Address :  706/708, Shardha Chambers, New Marine Lines, Mumbai – 400 020, Maharashtra, India

 

 

CAPITAL STRUCTURE

 

Authorised Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

2000000000

Equity Shares

Rs.10/- each

Rs.20000.000 millions

 

Issued, Subscribed & Paid-up Capital :

No. of Shares

Type

Value

Amount

1000000000

Equity Shares

Rs.10/- each

Rs.10000.000 millions

 


 

FINANCIAL DATA

[all figures are in Rupees Millions]

 

No Financials are available from any sources.                  

 

 

LOCAL AGENCY FURTHER INFORMATION

 

History

Subject is a joint venture between the State Bank of India and BNP Paribas Assurance. Subject is registered with an authorized capital of Rs 20000.000 millions and a Paid-up capital of Rs 10000.000 millions SBI owns 74% of the total capital and BNP Paribas Assurance the remaining 26%.

State Bank of India enjoys the largest banking franchise in India. Along with its 7 Associate Banks, SBI Group has the unrivalled strength of over 14,500 branches across the country, arguably the largest in the world. BNP Paribas Assurance is the insurance arm of BNP Paribas - Euro Zone’s leading Bank. BNP Paribas, part of the world's top 10 group of banks by market value and part of Europe top 3 banking companies, is one of the oldest foreign banks with a presence in India dating back to 1860. BNP Paribas Assurance is the forth largest life insurance company in France, and a worldwide leader in Creditor insurance products offering protection to over 50 million clients. BNP Paribas Assurance operates in 42 countries mainly through the bancassurance and partnership model.

Subject has a unique multi-distribution model encompassing Bancassurance, Agency and Group Corporates.

Subject extensively leverages the SBI Group as a platform for cross-selling insurance products along with its numerous banking product packages such as housing loans and personal loans. SBI’s access to over 100 million accounts across the country provides a vibrant base for insurance penetration across every region and economic strata in the country ensuring true financial inclusion.

Agency Channel, comprising of the most productive force of more than 40,000 Insurance Advisors, offers door to door insurance solutions to customers.

Press Release

Bangalore, Oct. 12 SBI Life Insurance Company Ltd proposes to hike its paid-up capital by another Rs 3000 millions by this year-end to meet its business requirements.

The Managing Director, Mr Uday Shanker Roy, told presspersons today that “We are maintaining a healthy growth and hope to sustain it.”

SBI Life is a joint venture between State Bank of India and Cardiff SA of France, where the French insurer holds 26 per cent stake. The company currently has a paid-up capital of Rs 5000 millions and an authorised capital of Rs 1,0000 millions.

Premium accretions

Till August, SBI Life had gross premium accretions of Rs 8681.100 millions, or a growth of 71 per cent, over the previous year, according to data available with the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority.

For the financial year ended March 2007, the company earned a premium of Rs 2,5660 millions registering a growth of 210 per cent compared to the corresponding period last year.

Mr Roy said that SBI Life had sustained this growth momentum in the second quarter, though he declined to give any numbers. He said that most of the premium accretions were contributed by SBI Life’s bancassurance arrangements with the parent bank and its associates/subsidiaries.

Doubling sales force

This year, he said that the company also intended to expand its agency force and double it by year-end. Currently it has a sales force of about 24,000 agents spread around the country. He said: “We plan to expand this to about 50,000 agents this year-end.”

Bulk of the premium accretions has been in the Unit Linked Insurance Policies (ULIPs), with a bias to growth funds. “With the Sensex soaring, customers have looked for greater returns,” he said. Yet, he said, ULIPs accounted for just about 65 per cent of the gross premiums. The rest was in the form of traditional products – both savings linked insurance plans and term plans. For most new insurers, ULIPs accounted for over 80 per cent of the premium accretions.

SBI Life, as part of plans to grow new business, launched a fixed deposit-linked insurance product along with State Bank of Mysore (SBM), branded Mybank Suraksha.

Fixed deposits in multiples of Rs 0.050 million placed with SBM for a minimum period of 5 years would be paid an interest of 8.25 per cent and simultaneously covered by SBI Life for an equivalent amount.

This product is targeted at depositors aged between 18 and 55. The minimum prescribed deposit is Rs 0.050 million and would have an insurance cover from SBI Life for an equivalent amount.

The SBM Managing Director, Mr P.P. Pattanayak, said: “SBM will bear the premium costs for this product.”

Asked whether this would increase the cost of liabilities, he said it would not have any major cost impact.

The upper limit for the cover is Rs 0.500 million, for depositors up to 39 years. For those depositors above 40 years, but less than 55 years, the ceiling is Rs 0.300 million.

Mr Pattanayak said that Mybank Suraksha was the first in the banking industry and intended to improve SBM’s long-term fund base.

 

CMT REPORT (Corruption, Money Laundering & Terrorism]

 

The Public Notice information has been collected from various sources including but not limited to: The Courts, India Prisons Service, Interpol, etc.

 

1]         INFORMATION ON DESIGNATED PARTY

No exist designating subject or any of its beneficial owners, controlling shareholders or senior officers as terrorist or terrorist organization or whom notice had been received that all financial transactions involving their assets have been blocked or convicted, found guilty or against whom a judgement or order had been entered in a proceedings for violating money-laundering, anti-corruption or bribery or international economic or anti-terrorism sanction laws or whose assets were seized, blocked, frozen or ordered forfeited for violation of money laundering or international anti-terrorism laws.

 

2]         Court Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that subject is or was the subject of any formal or informal allegations, prosecutions or other official proceeding for making any prohibited payments or other improper payments to government officials for engaging in prohibited transactions or with designated parties.

 

3]         Asset Declaration :

No records exist to suggest that the property or assets of the subject are derived from criminal conduct or a prohibited transaction.

 

4]         Record on Financial Crime :

            Charges or conviction registered against subject:                                                  None

 

5]         Records on Violation of Anti-Corruption Laws :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

6]         Records on Int’l Anti-Money Laundering Laws/Standards :

            Charges or investigation registered against subject:                                                          None

 

7]         Criminal Records

No available information exist that suggest that subject or any of its principals have been formally charged or convicted by a competent governmental authority for any financial crime or under any formal investigation by a competent government authority for any violation of anti-corruption laws or international anti-money laundering laws or standard.

 

8]         Affiliation with Government :

No record exists to suggest that any director or indirect owners, controlling shareholders, director, officer or employee of the company is a government official or a family member or close business associate of a Government official.

 

9]         Compensation Package :

Our market survey revealed that the amount of compensation sought by the subject is fair and reasonable and comparable to compensation paid to others for similar services.

 

10]        Press Report :

            No press reports / filings exists on the subject.

 

 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

MIRA INFORM as part of its Due Diligence do provide comments on Corporate Governance to identify management and governance. These factors often have been predictive and in some cases have created vulnerabilities to credit deterioration.

 

Our Governance Assessment focuses principally on the interactions between a company’s management, its Board of Directors, Shareholders and other financial stakeholders.

 

 

CONTRAVENTION

 

Subject is not known to have contravened any existing local laws, regulations or policies that prohibit, restrict or otherwise affect the terms and conditions that could be included in the agreement with the subject.

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

 

Currency

Unit

Indian Rupees

US Dollar

1

Rs.42.47

UK Pound

1

Rs.84.00

Euro

1

Rs.66.14

 

 

SCORE & RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

SCORE FACTORS

 

RANGE

POINTS

HISTORY

1~10

10

PAID-UP CAPITAL

1~10

9

OPERATING SCALE

1~10

9

FINANCIAL CONDITION

 

 

--BUSINESS SCALE

1~10

9

--PROFITABILIRY

1~10

9

--LIQUIDITY

1~10

9

--LEVERAGE

1~10

9

--RESERVES

1~10

9

--CREDIT LINES

1~10

9

--MARGINS

-5~5

-

DEMERIT POINTS

 

 

--BANK CHARGES

YES/NO

NO

--LITIGATION

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER ADVERSE INFORMATION

YES/NO

NO

MERIT POINTS

 

 

--SOLE DISTRIBUTORSHIP

YES/NO

NO

--EXPORT ACTIVITIES

YES/NO

NO

--AFFILIATION

YES/NO

NO

--LISTED

YES/NO

NO

--OTHER MERIT FACTORS

YES/NO

YES

TOTAL

 

82

 

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as follows:

 

Financial condition (40%)            Ownership background (20%)                 Payment record (10%)

Credit history (10%)                    Market trend (10%)                                Operational size (10%)

 


 

RATING EXPLANATIONS

 

RATING

STATUS

 

 

PROPOSED CREDIT LINE

>86

Aaa

Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums

 

Unlimited

71-85

Aa

Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Large

56-70

A

Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of interest and principal sums

 

Fairly Large

41-55

Ba

Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal commitments.

 

Satisfactory

26-40

B

Unfavourable & favourable factors carry similar weight in credit consideration. Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively below average.

 

Small

11-25

Ca

Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums in default or expected to be in default upon maturity

 

Limited with full security

<10

C

Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised

 

 

Credit not recommended

NR

In view of the lack of information, we have no basis upon which to recommend credit dealings

No Rating

 

 

 

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