RBI Notifications

During the compounding process, on a number of occasions, it has been brought to our notice by the applicants that the contraventions of the provisions of FEMA by corporates and individuals are due to the acts of omission and commission of the Authorised Dealers and some of the applicants have also produced documentary evidence in support of their claim. Such contraventions being dealt with by the Reserve Bank mainly relate to: Full Article

Government of India has decided to widen the scheme to include certain items covering the Engineering Sectors. The Scheme will be made available to the Engineering Sector on pre and post shipment export credit on the same terms and conditions as available to other sectors. A list of 134 tariff lines of Engineering products approved for inclusion in Interest Subvention for the period January 1, 2013 to March 31, 2013 is enclosed to this circular Full Article

Please refer to Circular No FMD.MOAG. No. 1082 /01.06.016/2012-13 setting out the swap facility to support incremental Pre-shipment Export Credit in Foreign Currency (PCFC). Scheduled banks (excluding RRBs) have the option to access rupee refinance to the extent of the swap with the Reserve Bank under a special export credit refinance facility for which promissory notes will need to be fully backed by eligible export bills under the PCFC. Full Article

With a view to further enhancing the flow of credit to the export sector, the Reserve Bank of India has introduced a US Dollar-Rupee swap facility to support incremental Pre-shipment Export Credit in Foreign Currency (PCFC) by banks. Scheduled banks (excluding Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)) will have the option to access rupee refinance to the extent of the swap with the Reserve Bank under a special export credit refinance facility. Full Article

On a review, it has been decided to enhance the ECB limit for NBFC-IFCs under the automatic route from 50 % of their owned funds to 75 % of their owned funds, including the outstanding ECBs. NBFC-IFCs desirous of availing ECBs beyond 75 % of their owned funds would require the approval of the Reserve Bank and will, therefore, be considered under the approval route. Full Article

In addition to listed corporate bonds, CDS shall also be permitted on unlisted but rated corporate bonds even for issues other than infrastructure companies. Users shall be allowed to unwind their CDS bought position with original protection seller at mutually agreeable or FIMMDA price. If no agreement is reached, then unwinding has to be done with the original protection seller at FIMMDA price. Full Article

Repo in corporate debt shall also be permitted on Commercial Papers, Certificates of Deposit and Non Convertible Debentures of less than one year of original maturity. The minimum haircut, applicable on the market value of the corporate debt securities prevailing on the date of trade of 1st leg, has been revised as under: Full Article

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today placed on its website, the Draft Report of the Working Group to Study the Issues Related to Gold and Gold Loans by Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) in India (Chairman: Shri K.U.B.Rao, Adviser, Department of Economic and Policy Research). The Reserve Bank has sought comments on the draft report [...] Full Article

Definition of Infrastructure Lending' in terms of which the definition of ‘infrastructure lending for the purpose of financing of infrastructure by the banks and Financial Institutions’ has been harmonized with that of the Master List of Infrastructure sub-sectors’ notified by the Government of India on March 27, 2012. It has been decided to harmonise the definition of infrastructure lending for NBFCs with that of banks. Full Article

As per extant instructions on Interest Rates on Deposits, RRBs on request from the depositor, should allow closure of a term deposit, a deposit in the form of daily deposit or recurring deposit, to enable the depositor to immediately reinvest the amount lying in the aforesaid deposits with the same bank in another term deposit. Full Article