On December 15, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India placed on its website a Working Paper titled ‘Price Discrimination in Over-the-Counter Currency Derivatives’ under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series. The paper is authored by Abhishek Kumar and Vidya Kamate, both, its brilliant staff members. As the name indicates the study deals with […]
Reserve Bank of India vides its communication FINANCIAL MARKETS REGULATION DEPARTMENT Notification No. FMRD.DIRD. XX /XX.XX.XXX/2020-21 dated December 4, 2020, placed on its web site the following for your comments which can be sent to fmrdfeedback@rbi.org.in by January 31, 2021. https://taxguru.in/rbi/draft-certificate-deposit-reserve-bank-directions-2020.html The above directions were issued to all entities/agencies eligible to deal in Certificate of […]
Reserve Bank of India vides its communication dated FINANCIAL MARKETS REGULATION DEPARTMENT Notification No. FMRD.DIRD. XX /XX.XX.XXX/2020-21 dated December 4, 2020, placed on its web site the following for your comments which can be sent to fmrdfeedback@rbi.org.in by January 31, 2021. https://taxguru.in/rbi/rbi-releases-draft-directions-money-market-instruments.html Let us understand these directions which are addressed to all entities/agencies eligible to […]
‘Derivative’ shall have the same meaning assigned to it in section 45U(a) of the RBI Act, 1934. Over-the-Counter (OTC) markets refer to markets where transactions are undertaken in any manner other than on exchanges and shall include those undertaken on electronic trading platforms (ETPs).
Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India, gave a lecture on ‘Accelerating Financial Market Reform in India’ at the 4th Annual Day of Foreign Exchange Dealers’ Association of India (FEDAI) on November 26, 2020, at Mumbai. Though the title involves an overhaul of total financial reforms in recent times in India, I studied its […]
The Report of the Internal Working Group set up to Review extant Ownership Guidelines and Corporate Structure for Indian Private Sector Banks by Reserve Bank of India dated October 26, 2020, by four members team was submitted. As the name indicates this epoch-making event unlocks the mysteries of floating a private sector bank and the […]
Based on the brilliant lecture on the above subject by Shri M. Rajeshwar Rao, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India – November 6, 2020 – at the ‘National E-Summit on Non-Banking Finance Companies’ organized by ASSOCHAM, the following article traces its origin. It has been drawn from the RBI web site as under: https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_SpeechesView.aspx?Id=1101 Though […]
History gleefully laughs at our tax administration which wanted to tax retrospectively and implemented its ideas to have an adverse reaction in Singapore and is planning legal steps further therein. But my mind was drawn to a historic but notorious book, named ‘Domesday Book‘ which contains the minutest details of many parts of the U.K. […]
Without splashing its efforts but humbly working with billions of human race, World Bank has set to excel its efforts in meeting head-on collision with the most dangerous economic, unhealthy, or global disaster unheard of or even unpredicted by any disaster team in the world, namely, COVID 19, the most unrepentant event we have ever […]
The newly appointed Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Reserve Bank of India with Dr. Ashima Goyal, Professor Jayanth R. Varma, and Dr. Shashanka Bhide, as external members met on 7th, 8th, and 9th October 2020 in its first meeting and the 25th under the monetary policy framework that was instituted in June 2016. “The MPC […]
