Mumbai: Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation which recently raised $1.5 billion, plans to invest 40 per cent of that (nearly $600 million) in Indian realty, reports citing company officials said. This is in addition to its growth fund investments of about $600 million in India, a report quoted Naina Lal Kidwai, HSBC India''''s country head, as saying. Private equity firms like The Carlyle Group, JP Morgan Chase & Co, and the private equity arms of Citigroup and Morgan Stanley have started investing in Indian property in a big way since the easing of investment rules in 2005. Kidwai also said the bank was in talks to lend $500 million to Wipro Ltd, India''''s third-biggest software services exporter, the report added.
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