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Fema / RBI : RBI proposes unified guidelines for lending against gold jewellery and ornaments across banks, co-operatives, and NBFCs, focusing ...
Fema / RBI : RBI's draft directions for securitisation of stressed assets, outlining eligibility, requirements for SPEs, Resolution Managers, i...
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Fema / RBI : Kerala High Court held that passing of order and classifying account of petitioner as fraud without following Master Directions on...
Fema / RBI : Madras High Court upholds RBI's Net Owned Fund (NOF) rules for NBFCs, affirming compliance requirements and rejecting challenges t...
Fema / RBI : Delhi High Court upholds RBI's FEMA penalty on an OCI cardholder for unauthorized agricultural land purchase in India, citing due ...
Fema / RBI : Present appeal has been filed by the appellant mainly contesting that whether the Tribunal was right in holding that there has bee...
Fema / RBI : Delhi High Court held that petitioner is duly entitled for the grant of duty drawback since the export proceeds have been realised...
Fema / RBI : RBI announces changes to FEMA compounding of contraventions. Learn about revised rules for application and payment processing....
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Fema / RBI : RBI asks all banks to shift to '.bank.in' domain by Oct 31, 2025, to boost cybersecurity and reduce fraud risks in digital banking...
Fema / RBI : RBI updates Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) for banks, changing run-off rates for digital retail deposits and non-financial entitie...
Fema / RBI : RBI revises rules for minor bank accounts (savings & term deposits). Independent operation for those above 10, guardian options, a...
Interest rates on Small Savings Schemes for first quarter of financial year 2018-19 starting 1st April , 2018 shall remain unchanged from those notified for fourth quarter of FY 2017-18
In order to improve monitoring and also to ensure compliance with the LRS limits, it has been decided to put in place a daily reporting system by AD banks of transactions undertaken by individuals under LRS, which will be accessible to all the other ADs.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, through an order dated April 09, 2018, a monetary penalty of ₹ 30 million on IDBI Bank Limited (the bank) for non-compliance with the directions issued by RBI on Income Recognition and Asset Classification (IRAC) norms.
Describing the RBI move to explore and examine introduction of official virtual currency in the country, the ASSOCHAM has, however, cautioned that extreme care be taken to ensure safety of the data trail that the crypto currency can leave as it changes hands through a range of electronic devices and platforms.
Entities regulated by the Reserve Bank shall not deal in VCs or provide services for facilitating any person or entity in dealing with or settling VCs. Such services include maintaining accounts, registering, trading, settling, clearing, giving loans against virtual tokens, accepting them as collateral, opening accounts of exchanges dealing with them and transfer / receipt of money in accounts relating to purchase/ sale of VCs.
In view of the increasing reliance of the banks on outsourced service providers and their sub-contractors in cash management logistics, certain minimum standards will be prescribed for the service provider / sub-contractors who are engaged by the banks for this purpose.
i. In view of the critical role played by LDMs, it may be ensured that officials posted as LDMs possess requisite leadership skills. ii. Apart from the provision of a separate office space, technical infrastructure like computers, printer, data connectivity, etc. which are basic necessities for LDMs to discharge their core responsibilities may be provided to LDMs Office without exception.
It is observed that not all system providers store the payments data in India. In order to ensure better monitoring, it is important to have unfettered supervisory access to data stored with these system providers as also with their service providers / intermediaries/ third party vendors and other entities in the payment ecosystem. It has, therefore, been decided that:
It has now been decided that stand-alone plain vanilla forex options (without attached structures) purchased by clients will be exempt from the ‘user suitability and appropriateness’ norms, and the regulatory requirements will be at par with forex forward contracts.
(a) The limit for FPI investment in Central Government securities (G-secs) would be increased by 0.5% each year to 5.5% of outstanding stock of securities in 2018- 19 and 6% of outstanding stock of securities in 2019-20.
