SME Times News Bureau | 13 Apr, 2010
The Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company has decided to infuse Rs.300 crore this fiscal for operational expansion.
Post-infusion, the company's equity will shoot up to Rs.925 crore, the company said on Tuesday.
Canara HSBC Oriental Life is a three-way joint venture between Canara Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and HSBC Insurance (Asia Pacific) Holdings Ltd.
The life insurer closed the 2009-10 financial year with a gross premium of Rs.861.3 crore, up from Rs.298.73 crore earned in the previous year.
The company earned Rs.171.1 crore premium last March.
Canara HSBC Oriental Life operates on a purely bancassurance model, selling its products through 900 branches of shareholding banks. The three banks have a total branch network of 4,400 branches in the country.
