Avanse Financial Services, the Warburg Pincus-backed education financing firm, is weighing a delay in its planned IPO amid slowing loan demand caused by stricter US visa rules, according to people familiar with the matter. The Mumbai-based lender may wait for overseas loan demand to improve before resuming the share sale, though deliberations are ongoing and no final decision has been taken.
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Elice, which raised 201.1 billion won ($150 million) in its IPO, provides AI cloud services as well as AI-based education and business software and plans