Mukesh Ambani’s real estate gets HSBC financing boost

In an attempt to increase its wager on Asia's wealthiest individual, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's business empire, HSBC Holdings Plc has almost doubled the size of a lending agreement. 

Following the acquisition of the Stoke Park estate in southeast England for £57 million in 2021, the London-based bank first extended a £60 million ($73 million) lending facility to a unit of Reliance Industries Ltd., as per UK registry documents. 

As part of its transition away from the energy industry that has supported the billionaire's wealth, Ambani's business is currently renovating Stoke Park, a prominent asset. Reliance has plans to renovate the site, which includes building seven-star villas, taking out surface-level parking and repairing the roof of the home built in the Georgian style that is now a luxury hotel. 

Ambani's firms and HSBC have a history of collaborating on blockchain-enabled transactions and other strategies to accelerate operations in India. They carried out a type of derivatives contract in June, one day after India gave banks permission to provide consumers with better options for currency hedging. Stoke Park was acquired by Reliance, a retail-to-refining company, as part of a larger shift towards consumer services. In 2019, it enlarged the British retail icon in India with acquiring the toy store chain Hamleys, which is situated in the United Kingdom. Additionally, it purchased a secondary interest in the five-star Mandarin Oriental New York.