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Report No. : |
332593 |
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Report Date : |
24.07.2015 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
STAR DIAM LTD. |
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Registered Office : |
Room 1406, 14/F., Hart Avenue Plaza, 5-9 Hart Avenue, Tsimshatsui,
Kowloon |
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Country : |
Hong Kong |
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Date of Incorporation : |
28.05.2005 |
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Com. Reg. No.: |
35669566 |
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Legal Form : |
Private Limited Company |
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Line of Business : |
Subject is importer, exporter and wholesaler of all kinds of diamonds |
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No. of Employee : |
3 |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
Ba |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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41-55 |
Ba |
Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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Status : |
Satisfactory |
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Payment Behaviour : |
No complaints |
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Litigation : |
Clear |
NOTES :
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while quoting report number, name and date.
ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31, 2015
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2014) |
Current Rating (31.03.2015) |
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Hong Kong |
A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low |
A2 |
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Moderate |
B1 |
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High |
B2 |
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Very High |
C1 |
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Restricted |
C2 |
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Off-credit |
D |
HONG KONG - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of re-exports, is about four times GDP. Hong Kong has no tariffs on imported goods, and it levies excise duties on only four commodities, whether imported or produced locally: hard alcohol, tobacco, hydrocarbon oil, and methyl alcohol. There are no quotas or dumping laws. Hong Kong's open economy left it exposed to the global economic slowdown that began in 2008. Although increasing integration with China, through trade, tourism, and financial links, helped it to make an initial recovery more quickly than many observers anticipated, its continued reliance on foreign trade and investment leaves it vulnerable to renewed global financial market volatility or a slowdown in the global economy. The Hong Kong government is promoting the Special Administrative Region (SAR) as the site for Chinese renminbi (RMB) internationalization. Hong Kong residents are allowed to establish RMB-denominated savings accounts; RMB-denominated corporate and Chinese government bonds have been issued in Hong Kong; and RMB trade settlement is allowed. The territory far exceeded the RMB conversion quota set by Beijing for trade settlements in 2010 due to the growth of earnings from exports to the mainland. RMB deposits grew to roughly 12.5% of total system deposits in Hong Kong by the end of 2014. The government is pursuing efforts to introduce additional use of RMB in Hong Kong financial markets and is seeking to expand the RMB quota. The mainland has long been Hong Kong's largest trading partner, accounting for about half of Hong Kong's total trade by value. Hong Kong's natural resources are limited, and food and raw materials must be imported. As a result of China's easing of travel restrictions, the number of mainland tourists to the territory has surged from 4.5 million in 2001 to 47.3 million in 2014, outnumbering visitors from all other countries combined. Hong Kong has also established itself as the premier stock market for Chinese firms seeking to list abroad. In 2014 mainland Chinese companies constituted about 50% of the firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and accounted for about 60.1% of the Exchange's market capitalization. During the past decade, as Hong Kong's manufacturing industry moved to the mainland, its service industry has grown rapidly. Credit expansion and tight housing supply conditions have caused Hong Kong property prices to rise rapidly; consumer prices increased by more than 4.4% in 2014. Lower and middle income segments of the population are increasingly unable to afford adequate housing. Hong Kong continues to link its currency closely to the US dollar, maintaining an arrangement established in 1983. In 2014, Hong Kong and China signed a new agreement on achieving basic liberalization of trade in services in Guangdong Province under the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement, adopted in 2003 to forge closer ties between Hong Kong and the mainland. The new measures, effective from March 2015, cover a negative list and a most-favored treatment provision, and will improve access to the mainland's service sector for Hong Kong-based companies.
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Source
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STAR DIAM
LTD.
Room 1406, 14/F., Hart
Avenue Plaza, 5-9 Hart Avenue, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
PHONE : 852-2369 6909
FAX : 852-2369 6906
E-MAIL : nimitshah_99@hotmail.com
Managing
Director: Mr. Nimit Shailesh Shah
Incorporated
on: 28th May, 2005.
Organization: Private Limited Company.
Issued Share
Capital: HK$1.00
Business Category:
Diamond Trader.
Employees: 3.
Main Dealing
Banker: The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong.
Banking
Relation: Good.
Registered Head Office:-
Room 1406, 14/F.,
Hart Avenue Plaza, 5-9 Hart Avenue, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
35669566
0973603
Managing
Director: Mr. Nimit Shailesh Shah
HK$1.00
(As
per registry dated 28-05-2015)
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Name |
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No.
of share |
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Nimit Shailesh SHAH |
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1 = |
(As
per registry dated 28-05-2015)
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Name (Nationality) |
Address |
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Nimit Shailesh
SHAH |
Flat L, 17/F., Tower 2, Royal Peninsula, 8
Hung Lai Road, Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. |
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Nirav Shailesh
SHAH |
Lady North Court Building, No. 2, 4/F., 5
Chowpatti Road, India. |
(As
per registry dated 28-05-2015)
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Name |
Address |
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Bayani
Divino Bautista PONCE |
Unit 324, 3/F., Hankow Centre, 5-15 Hankow Road, Tsimshatsui, Kowloon,
Hong Kong. |
The
subject was incorporated on 28th May, 2005 as a private limited liability
company under the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance.
Apart
from these, neither material change nor amendment has been ever traced and
noted.
Activities: Importer,
Exporter and Wholesaler.
Lines: All kinds of diamonds, etc.
Brand Name: Star Diam.
Employees: 3.
Commodities
Imported: India, Belgium, other
European countries, etc.
Markets: Hong Kong,
Japan, other Asian countries, Europe, etc.
Terms/Sales: COD,
L/C, T/T, etc.
Terms/Buying: L/C,
T/T, D/P, etc.
Issued Share
Capital: HK$1.00
Mortgage or
Charge: (See attachment)
Profit or Loss: Business is profitable.
Condition: Business is active.
Facilities: Adequate for current running.
Payment: Met trade commitments as contracted.
Commercial
Morality: Satisfactory.
Banker: The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.
Ltd., Hong Kong.
Standing: Normal.
Having
issued just 1 ordinary share of HK$1.00, Star Diam Ltd. previously was wholly
owned by M. Shailesh & Company which was an India-based firm. On 17th December, 2009, M. Shailesh
& Company transferred its single share to Mr. Nimit Shailesh Shah who is an
India merchant. Now, the subject is
wholly-owned by N. S. Shah who is also the Managing director of the subject. He is a Hong Kong ID holder and has got
the right to reside in Hong Kong permanently. The other director Mr. Nirav Shailesh Shah is
also an Indian. However he is an India
passport holder and currently residing in Mumbai, India.
The
subject is a diamond importer, exporter and wholesaler. It is also the supplier, importer and
exporter of versatile range of diamonds in a wide variety like rose cut
diamonds, rose cut heart, rose cut round, rose cut pears, rose cut oval, rose
cut marquise, emerald cut, taper, tapered baguette, fancy cut and fancy colour
diamonds, briollets beads, old mine cut diamonds round brilliant cut diamonds,
marquise, pears, oval, heart, trilliant, etc.
It
is also specialised in white diamonds, from PK quality to VS quality, TTLB, off
white, black, dark brown, brilliant and treated diamonds in round shape. Caret size is 6.5 or over. Most of its products bear the brand name Star
Diam.
The
subject’s loose and fancy diamonds are chiefly imported from India and other
Asian countries. Other diamonds are
imported from Belgium and the other European countries. Products are marketed in Hong Kong, China,
exported to Japan, India, the other Asian countries, Europe, etc. Business is active.
The
subject is trying to penetrate the China market further.
In
order to penetrate the international market further, the subject has taken part
in fairs and exhibitions held in Hong Kong and other foreign large cities. For instance, it is going to take part in
“HKTDC Hong Kong International Diamond, Gem & Pearl Show 2016” which will
be held in Hong Kong AsiaWorld-Expo, Lantau, Hong Kong during the period of 1st
to 5th March, 2016.
The
history of the subject in Hong Kong is over ten years and a month. The subject is solely operated by the Shah
family.
On
the whole, consider it good for normal business engagements.
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Date |
Particulars |
Amount |
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13-08-2007 |
Instrument: Assignment
of Receivables – General with Notice of Assignment Property: In consideration
of the Banking Facilities, the Customer, as beneficial owner and by way of security
for the payment of the Secured Monies, hereby assigns, and agrees to assign,
to the Bank the Receivables until all the Secured Monies have been paid or
discharged Mortgagee: The
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong. |
To secure all monies in respect of banking facilities |
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22-04-2010 |
Instrument: Assignment
of Life Insurance Property: (i) All the
Assignor’s claims, options, privileges, right, title, interest and benefit in
and under the Insurance; and (ii) all the Assignor’s claims and rights
against the issuer of the Policy in respect of the Policy Mortgagee: The
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd., Hong Kong. |
Secured Indebtedness |
DIAMOND INDUSTRY – INDIA
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From time immemorial, India is well known in the world
as the birthplace for diamonds. It is difficult to trace the origin of
diamonds but history says that in the remote past, diamonds were mined only in
India. Diamond production in India can be traced back to almost 8th
Century B.C. India, in fact, remained undisputed leader till 18th
Century when Brazilian fields were discovered in 1725 followed by emergence of
S. Africa, Russia and Australia.
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The achievement of the Indian diamond industry was
possible only due to combination of the manufacturing skills of the Indian
workforce and the untiring and unflagging efforts of the Indian diamantaires,
supported by progressive Government policies.
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The area of study of family owned diamond businesses
derives its importance from the huge conglomerate of family run organizations
which operate in the diamond industry since many generations.
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Some of the basic traits of family run business
enterprises include spirit of entrepreneurship, mutual trust lowers transaction
costs, small, nimble and quick to react, information as a source of advantage
and philanthropy.
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Family owned diamond businesses need to improve on
many fronts including higher standard of corporate governance, long-term
performance – focused strategies, modern management and technology.
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Utmost caution is to be exercised while dealing with
some medium and large diamond traders which are usually engaged in fictitious
import – export, inter-company transactions, financially assisted by banks. In
the process, several public sector banks lost several hundred million rupees.
They mostly diverted borrowed money for diamond business into real estate and
capital markets.
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Excerpts from Times of India dated 30th
October 2010 is as under –
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Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council in its
statistical data has shown the export of polished diamonds to have increase by
28 % in February 2013. Compared to $ 1.4 bn worth of polished diamond export in
February, 2012, India exported $ 1.84 billion worth of polished diamonds in
February 2013. A senior executive of GJEPC said, “Export of cut and polished
diamonds started falling month-wise after the imposition of 2 % of import duty
on the polished diamonds. But February, 2013 has given a new ray of hope to the
industry as the export of polished diamonds has actually increased by 28 %. It
means the industry is on the track of recovery and round tripping of
diamonds has stopped completely.” Demand has started coming from the US, the
UK, Japan and China. India’s polished diamond export is expected to cross $ 21
bn in 2013-14.
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The banking sector has started exercising restraint
while following prudent risk management norms when lending money to gems and
jewellery sector. This follows the implementation of Basel III accord – a
global voluntary regulatory standard on bank capital adequacy, stress testing
and market liquidity.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
Unit
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
Rs.63.71 |
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1 |
Rs.99.57 |
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Euro |
1 |
Rs.69.63 |
INFORMATION DETAILS
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Analysis Done by
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DIV |
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Report Prepared
by : |
ASH |
RATING EXPLANATIONS
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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>86 |
Aaa |
Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest
capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums |
Unlimited |
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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 |
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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 |
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41-55 |
Ba |
Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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26-40 |
B |
Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively
below average. |
Small |
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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 |
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<10 |
C |
Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised |
Credit not
recommended |
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NB |
New Business |
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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%)
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