JM Financial Ltd

JM Financial Limited was incorporated as a Private Limited Company as 'J.M. Share and Stock Brokers Private Limited' on January 30, 1986. Subsequently, the Company became a deemed Public Limited Company upon its promoter, J. M. Financial & Investment Consultancy Services Private Limited on June 15, 1988. On September 15, 2004, the name of the Company was changed to JM Financial Limited. JM Financial Limited is an integrated and diversified financial services group offering a wide range of capital market services to corporate and individual clients. The Company is engaged in holding company activities, advisors in equity and debt capital markets, management of capital markets transactions, mergers & acquisitions, advisory, private equity syndication, corporate finance advisory business and administration & management of private equity funds. In December 1997, the Company entered into a Joint Venture agreement with Morgan Stanley. During the year 2001, the company redeemed last installment of 14% Debenture and also repaid part of its unsecured loans to its promoters with the ultimate objective of bringing down the borrowing and making the company a Zero Debt Company. J.M. Securities Private Limited got amalgamated with the Company in year 2006. JM Financial had launched a corporate private equity fund in August of the same year 2006 under the name of JM Financial India Fund, with US-based Old Lane Partners, LP, being the lead investor/co-sponsor to the Fund. As of August 2007, the company had launched a unique Portfolio Management Scheme that aims to offer 100% capital protection as well as potential capital appreciation based on the Dynamic Portfolio Insurance (DPI) methodology. As at March of the year 2008, JM Financial had acquired JM Financial ASK Securities Private Limited. The Company has opened a full-fledged branch at Vizag, the Port City of Andhra Pradesh in the month of September of the same year 2008. On 3 June 2010, Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), a division of FirstRand Limited (FirstRand) and JM Financial Consultants Private Limited agreed to enter into a strategic co-operation to provide M&A advisory services to Indian and African corporates for their activities in the Indo-Africa corridor. JM Financial Consultants Private Limited is the investment banking division of JM Financial Group. The MoU signed between RMB and JM Financial Consultants will enable corporates at both destinations to explore and leverage opportunities in the economies of India and Africa. According to the MoU, JM Financial and RMB will jointly provide M&A advisory services to Indian clients seeking to make investments into entities or transactions in Africa; and South African and African clients seeking to make investments in entities or transactions in India. On 20 November 2014, JM Financial Limited announced that it has received a significant capital investment of Rs 540 crore from a global fund led by Mr. Vikram Pandit in its real estate lending subsidiary company, FICS Consultancy Services Limited (FICS). JM Financial Limited has provided additional capital of Rs 360 crore to this business bringing the total capital commitment to Rs 900 crore. The additional capital will enhance the real estate lending and financing business of JM Financial. The Allotment Committee of the Board of Directors of JM Financial Ltd at its meeting held on 11 December 2014 allotted 1.16 crore equity shares of the face value of Rs 1 each to Mr. Vikram Shankar Pandit, a Non Resident Indian upon the exercise of right by him as a warrant holder. On 17 August 2015, JM Financial Ltd announced that its Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) JM Financial Institutional Securities Limited has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Seabury Corporate Finance LLC, a subsidiary of Seabury Group LLC for strategic co-operation to provide Investment Banking advisory services to Indian corporates for their activities in the Aviation, Aerospace, and Defense business. Under the agreement, JM Financial and Seabury will jointly provide investment banking advisory services to each party's clients who may be seeking investment opportunities or may like to identify suitable strategic partnerships for their respective businesses. Both companies will seek to leverage their client relationships, as well as their regional and domestic expertise in a mutually beneficial manner. On 9 May 2016, JM Financial Products Limited, a subsidiary of JM Financial Ltd, executed the Agreement to acquire securities representing upto 9.84% (on a fully diluted basis) of the total paid up capital of Fairassets Technologies India Private Limited. Fairassets Technologies India Private Limited is engaged in the business of operating a web portal and mobile application by the name of 'Faircent.com' which provides a virtual peer to peer lending marketplace. On 30 September 2016, JM Financial Limited announced that JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company Private Limited has become a subsidiary of the company with effect from 30 September 2016. The shareholding of the company in JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company has increased from 50% to 50.01%. On 15 November 2016, JM Financial Products Limited, a subsidiary of JM Financial Limited, acquired 19.93 lakh equity shares of India Home Loan Limited (IHL) representing 17.53% of the total paid up equity share capital of IHL through secondary purchase route. On 2 December 2016, JM Financial Products Limited acquired further 15.05 lakh equity shares of India Home Loan Limited (IHL) through preferential allotment route. After the above acquisition, JM Financial Products Limited holds an aggregate of 34.99 lakh equity shares of IHL representing 24.50% of the total post issue paid up equity share capital of IHL. The acquisition as above by JM Financial Products is with the intention to transfer the entire equity stake in IHL (after factoring the carrying cost for the period it remains in the books of JM Financial Products) to a Fund/Trust to be established and managed/sponsored by JM Financial Investment Managers Limited, the asset management company for Alternative Assets business in the JM Financial Group. IHL is engaged in the business of providing home loans to individuals and families in the affordable housing segment. The equity shares of IHL are currently traded on the BSE Limited. On 30 March 2017, JM Financial Limited announced that its subsidiary company JM Investment Managers Limited has executed the share purchase agreement to acquire equity shares of Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited (Spandana) through a secondary purchase in two tranches representing 16.26% of its current outstanding total equity shares. On a fully diluted basis, the said acquisition would result in the holding of 6.41% in Spandana post the preferential issue and exercise of the warrants/ESOPs by the promoters/employees of Spandana as per the other agreements executed by Spandana. During FY2017-18, the Scheme of Amalgamation between JM Financial Institutional Securities Limited and JM Financial Investment Managers Limited with the Company was sanctioned by the Mumbai Bench of the Hon'ble National Company Law Tribunal, vide it's Order dated December 14, 2017. The said Scheme was filed with the Registrar of Companies, Mumbai and became effective from January 18, 2018. Consequent to the Scheme becoming effective, Company has ceased to be a Core Investment Company. On 24 November 2017, JM Financial Limited announced that JM Financial Home Loans Limited, a step down subsidiary of the company, has received certificate of registration from National Housing Bank for carrying out housing finance activities. JM Financial Home Loans commenced housing finance business in December 2017 with a focus on affordable housing. The Committee of the Board of JM Financial Limited at its meeting held on 6 February 2018 approved the allotment of 4.01 crore equity shares to the eligible qualified institutional buyers at the issue price of Rs 162 per equity share, aggregating to Rs 650 crore under the SEBI Regulations and Section 42 of the Companies Act, 2013. Earlier, the company's Board of Directors at its meeting held on 2 February 2018 approved closure of the qualified institutional investors (QIIP) issue on 2 February 2018. On 14 March 2018, JM Financial Products Limited announced that it has further acquired an aggregate of 7.60 crore equity shares of the face value of Rs 10 each of JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company Limited, a subsidiary of the company, pursuant to the allotment of 7.40 crore equity shares subscribed by the company on rights basis and 20.41 lakh shares by way of secondary transfer. Consequent to the above acquisition, the shareholding of the company in JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company Limited has increased from 50.01% to 57.07%. On 16 April 2018, JM Financial Products Limited, a subsidiary of JM Financial Limited, completed the second leg of acquisition of 8.78 lakh equity shares of Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited (Spandana). With this acquisition, JM Financial Products' holding is 12.95% of the current outstanding total equity shares of Spandana and 6.47% on a fully diluted basis. On 25 May 2018, JM Financial announced that its subsidiary company viz., JM Financial Products Limited, has transferred its entire equity and preference shareholding in Vendiman Private Limited to JM Financial India Fund II (a scheme of JM Financial India Trust II, A SEBI registered Category II Alternate Investment Fund). Further, JM Financial Products Limited has transferred 18.37 lakh shares in Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited (Spandana) to JM Financial India Fund II. With the above transfer and conversion of preference shares by a few shareholders of Spandana, JM Financial Products' holding in Spandana has reduced to 3.75% of its existing outstanding total equity shares and on a fully diluted basis it has reduced to 3.39%. As on March 31, 2019, the Company had 15 subsidiaries (including step down subsidiaries), a partnership firm and an associate company. During the FY 2018-19, the Company mobilised more than Rs 4,000 crore in various corporate fixed deposits and bonds and over Rs 1,200 crore in various mutual fund schemes. The Company's online platform saw a major progress this year with EVOLVE Account opening application. During the year 2018-19, online transactions gained momentum with total 14,340 clients doing transactions online. More than 1,040 IFDs are using online facility.During the year 2018-19, the Company carried out debt trading transactions in Government securities and Non SLR securities. It also syndicated loans through its debt syndication team. During FY 2018-19, the Company launched the public issue of Non-Convertible Debentures for JM Financial Credit Solutions Limited and raised a cumulative amount of Rs 1,014 Crore in two tranches. During the FY 2018-19, the Company filed a Draft Shelf Prospectus for JM Financial Products Limited for an amount of Rs 2000 crore. The debt public issue was launched in the month of April 2019. In 2019, the Company acquired 2.18% stake in JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (JMFARC). The Company made an issue of equity shares under the Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) route on a private placement basis in June 2020. Through the QIP issue, it raised an aggregate of Rs. 770 crore by allotting 11,00,00,000 equity shares of the face value Re. 1 each to Qualified Institutional Buyers at an issue price of Rs. 70/- per equity share (including premium of Rs. 69/- per share) where, the said equity shares got listed on BSE Limited and National Stock Exchange of India Limited. JM Financial Products Limited raised Rs. 387 crore through a public issue of secured, rated, listed, redeemable, Non-Convertible Debentures in April 2019 (Tranche I). It introduced Elite Wealth Management Group, which commenced operations in October 2019. During FY 2019-20, it progressed in digital transactions and launched new processes like FD Online and IPO Online. The Average Assets Under Management (AAUM) of JM Financial Mutual Fund for FY 2019-20 were ~Rs. 6,495 crore with Equity AAUM ~Rs. 4,146 crore and Debt AAUM ~Rs. 2,349 crore. In June 2021, JM Financial Private Equity Fund finalised an investment of Rs. 350 million in Walko Food Company Private Limited, a Pune-based consumer packaged food company to fund the Company's current expansion plans. In September 2021, Company announced Tranche - I Public Issue of Rs. 500 crore of Secured, Rated, Listed, Redeemable Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) of face value of Rs. 1,000 each. It launched a intuitive digital investment platform, Bondskart, with access to debt securities in November 2021. It led the Equity Capital Markets and executed over 50 transactions by raising funds through initial public offerings, qualified institutions placements, rights issues, liquidity, etc. Over 190 corporate raised about Rs. 2 trillion through equity markets to fund their capital requirements and provide exit to existing shareholders. During December 2021, JM Financial India Growth Fund III completed its first closing. As on March 31, 2022, Fund III has finalised three investments, API Holdings Private Limited, Aarman Solutions Private Limited, and BigHaat Agro Private Limited. The Company launched the JM Financial Credit Opportunities Fund - I in June, 2023. Pursuant to the Scheme of Arrangement, the Private Wealth and Portfolio Management Services (PMS) divisions have been demerged from JM Financial Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary and have become part of the Company in FY 2023-24. Resulting the demerger, JM Financial Capital Limited has ceased to be a step-down subsidiary of the Company with JM Financial Services Limited, JM Financial Institutional Securities Limited became a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and the Private Wealth and PMS divisions became a part of the Company from April 1, 2023. The Company's shareholding in JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (JMFARC) increased from 53.62% to 71.79% in FY 2025. Similarly, the Company's shareholding in JM Financial Credit Solutions Limited (JMFCSL) increased from 46.68% to 97.02% in FY 2025. During FY 2025, the consolidated Profit after tax for the Company more than doubled from Rs 410 crore in FY24 to Rs 821 crore in FY25. In the Home Loans, the revenue surged 43% to Rs 369 crore, with PAT increasing 49% to Rs 59 crore. Asset Management AUM doubled to Rs 13,419 crore, generating 49% higher revenue of Rs 43 crore. As of March 31, 2025, Assets Under Management (AUM) (excluding custody assets) stood at Rs 75,804 Crore, up 11% YoY from Rs 68,105 Crore in FY24 In March 2025, the Private Wealth business of the Company was sold/transferred to JM Financial Services Limited (JMFSL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, through a Business Transfer Agreement on a going concern basis via slump sale, effective from April 1, 2025. JM Financial Private Wealth, Inc (JMFPW) was incorporated in the state of Delaware, United States of America on November 10, 2025. Company has increased ts shareholding in JM Financial Credit Solutions Limited (JMFCSL) to 100%, making it a wholly owned subsidiary on June 27, 2025. Company launched its first Rs 1500 crore Pre -IPO Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) and its second Rs 1000 crore Credit AIF in FY26. The Fund House also launched the JM Large & Mid Cap Fund, an open-ended equity scheme investing in large-cap and mid-cap stocks, which reached an AUM of Rs 370.29 crore as of March 31, 2026.