Incorporated on 16th Apr.'92 as a Private Limited company under the name of Richfield Portfolio Management Private Limited was later changed to Richfield Financial Services Pvt Ltd on 5th Feb.'93 and then was converted to public limited company. It obtained fresh certificate of incorporation on 19th Dec.'94. The company started its operations from end Mar.'93. It has been promoted by Rajesh Kumar Kankaria and Jai Narayan Gupta.

RFSL is engaged in carrying on the business of providing financial services, viz., merchant banking, stock-broking, portfolio management, project consultancy, loan syndication, capital structuring and also for carrying out fund based activities, viz., leasing, investments, bill discounting, bought out deals (BODs) etc.

During Feb.'96, RFSL came out with a public issue of 9,50,000 equity shares of Rs 10/- each for cash at a premium of Rs 4/- per share aggregating to Rs 133 lakhs to consolidate its capital base and augment its long term resources to meet the need of its expanding fund based business in leasing, hire purchase investment in securities, short term financing etc by infusion of funds in the form of equity capital and to increase its networth, for the purpose of enhancing borrowing capacity and the ability to provide increased underwriting support etc.