Kerala Financial Corporation (KFC)
Kerala Financial Corporation is a state financial corporation lending to the MSME sector of Kerala. It is 99.005% owned by the Government of Kerala and headquartered at Vellayambalam, Thiruvananthapuram. A dated official posting retrieved invites RFP for private placement of Rs 200 crore redeemable bonds with a Rs 200 crore green-shoe option, bid submission 1 July 2025.
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How we verify →Kerala Financial Corporation is a state financial corporation lending to the MSME sector of Kerala. It is 99.005% owned by the Government of Kerala and headquartered at Vellayambalam, Thiruvananthapuram. A dated official posting retrieved invites RFP for private placement of Rs 200 crore redeemable bonds with a Rs 200 crore green-shoe option, bid submission 1 July 2025.
What happened
KFC identifies itself as incorporated in 1953 under the SFCs Act 1951, formally founded as the Travancore Cochin Financial Corporation on 1 December 1953, lending to the MSME sector of the State (source: https://www.kfc.org/).
Ownership and base: 99.005% of the shares are owned by the Government of Kerala; KFC has 21 branch offices with headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, stated as KFC, Vellayambalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (source: https://www.kfc.org/).
Dated debt posting retrieved: KFC inviting RFP from arrangers for private placement of redeemable bonds of Rs 200 crore with a green-shoe option to retain Rs 200 crore, bid submission date 1st July 2025, 12.30 PM (source: https://www.kfc.org/).
What we could not confirm
No revenue, profit, loan-book, net-worth or employee figures were available in the excerpts retrieved; financials and employees left null. As-of date for the 99.005% shareholding was not stated. Administrative ministry/department not stated in excerpts. District Thiruvananthapuram is inferred from stated headquarters city Thiruvananthapuram/Vellayambalam.