SBI Life Insurance Co Ltd will now go to hire 8 banks such as Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and other just to manage its up to $1 billion initial public offering of shares. As per the Thomson Reuters publication said, The life insurance arm of top Indian lender State Bank of India will hire five local banks - Axis Capital, ICICI Securities, JM Financial, Kotak and SBI Capital Markets" IFR further added, "SBI Life now plans to offer a 12 percent stake in the IPO, up from the 10 percent earlier planned" SBI Owns 70.1% of SBI Life, however, BNP Paribas Cardif owns 26%. Also Read: Union Finance Minister Jaitley: Invoice matching mechanism in GST to check frauds SBI cuts home loan interest rates by 0.25% in affordable housing push Sensex go green 78 pts on Asian cues while Nifty tops 9,300