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Fema / RBI : Understand DICGCs role in insuring bank deposits up to ₹5 lakh. Learn about compliance requirements, premium calculations, and p...
Fema / RBI : RBI cautions banks and NBFCs on non-compliance with regulatory standards, highlighting risks associated with rapid home equity loa...
Fema / RBI : Learn the FLA return filing process for Indian companies and LLPs with foreign investments. Mandatory by July 15 annually. Avoid p...
Fema / RBI : RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.5%, projects 7.2% GDP growth for 2024-25. Introduces public depository for digital lending apps...
Fema / RBI : RBIs August 2024 meeting keeps repo and SDF rates unchanged. Focus on reducing inflation and enhancing credit reporting. Impact on...
Fema / RBI : Details on penalties for not maintaining AMB in savings accounts, criteria for calculation, and government's stance on rationalizi...
Fema / RBI : Discover RBI's third global hackathon, 'HaRBInger 2024 - Innovation for Transformation,' aimed at enhancing India's financial land...
Fema / RBI : The ability for cardholders to determine their billing cycle signifies that credit cards are not merely tools for cashless transac...
Fema / RBI : Explore the comprehensive regulatory insights shared by Shri M. Rajeshwar Rao, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, focus...
Fema / RBI : Explore how the Reserve Bank of India is fostering self-regulation through SROs, setting industry standards, and enhancing complia...
Fema / RBI : RBI directs NBFCs to adhere to a Rs 20,000 cash loan disbursement limit, aiming to regulate cash transactions and enforce complian...
Fema / RBI : Lender Banks Required to Provide Audit Reports to Borrowers and Allow Representation Before Classifying Accounts as Fraud, Along w...
Fema / RBI : Lawyers empanelled by the banks to represent them in cases did not hold a civil post and thus the laws of reservation would not be...
Fema / RBI : Assessee-company was engaged in the business of providing unsecured short-term loans to its customers/borrowers in India via its D...
Fema / RBI : Delhi High Court granted the bail application in the extortion case concluding that merely because the petitioner has been alleged...
Fema / RBI : The Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024 revises key provisions in the Reserve Bank of India Act, Banking Regulation Act, and relat...
Fema / RBI : RBI's 2024 amendment to FEMA regulations allows foreign investors to buy Sovereign Green Bonds in India’s IFSC and remit proceed...
Fema / RBI : RBI revises risk weights for Housing Finance Companies, capping undisbursed loan risk weights and adjusting risk weights for comme...
Fema / RBI : RBI revises regulations for HFCs and NBFCs, harmonizing deposit acceptance norms and enhancing liquidity requirements as of August...
Fema / RBI : RBI maintains policy repo rate at 6.50% in August 2024. Focus on controlling inflation while supporting growth. Projected GDP grow...
it has now been decided to enhance the housing loan limits for eligibility under priority sector lending. Accordingly, in respect of RRBs and SFBs, housing loans to individuals up to ₹ 35 lakh in metropolitan centres (with population of ten lakh and above) and ₹ 25 lakh in other centres, provided the overall cost of the dwelling unit in the metropolitan centres and at other centres does not exceed ₹ 45 lakh and ₹ 30 lakh, respectively will be eligible for classification under Priority Sector Lending.
Date : May 03, 2019 RBI clarifies on safe custody of its gold reserves We have come across reports in certain sections of the print and social media regarding RBI shifting abroad a part of its gold holding in 2014. It is a normal practice for Central Banks world over, to keep their gold reserves overseas […]
Foreign Direct Investment in Small Scale Industrial Undertakings (SSI) and Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) In terms of the Schedule 1, an Indian company which is a small scale industrial unit and which is not engaged in any activity or in manufacture of items included in Annex A (List of activities or items for which […]
In this write up we endeavor to summarize the conditions for the purchase and sale of immovable property in India by a non resident Indians and overseas citizens of India. Ideally the NRI/OCIs are permitted to acquire the immovable property in India in the following manner: 1. Purchase; 2. Gift; 3. Inheritance; TERMS USED: 1. […]
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 16 January 2019 notified a new external commercial borrowings framework (New ECB Framework). The New ECB Framework rationalizes the existing external commercial borrowings framework (Old ECB Framework) by merging the existing Track I (medium-term foreign currency denominated ECB) and Track II (long-term foreign currency denominated ECB) into one track as ‘Foreign Currency Denominated ECB’. Existing Track III (Indian Rupee denominated ECB) and the Indian Rupee denominated bonds (Masala Bonds) route has been merged as ‘Rupee Denominated ECB’.
Reserve Bank Extends Ombudsman Scheme for Non-Banking Financial Companies to eligible Non-Deposit Taking Non-Banking Financial Companies with effect from April 26, 2019.
As a measure to broaden access of non–resident investors to debt instruments in India, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) are now permitted to invest in municipal bonds.. FPI investment in municipal bonds shall be reckoned within the limits set for FPI investment in State Development Loans (SDLs).
No financial institution will declare the accounts of ‘Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited’ or its entities as ‘NPA’ without prior permission of this Appellate Tribunal.
EXTERNAL COMMERCIAL BORROWINGS; External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) are loan made by non-resident lenders in convertible foreign exchange to the Indian borrowers. ECBs are the instruments through which loans are availed by India borrowers from foreign sources. ECBs include bank loans, buyer’s credit, supplier’s credit, securitised instruments, such as floating rate notes, fixed rate bonds, etc. […]
Currently, branches of commercial banks observe holiday only on second and fourth Saturday of a month apart from Sunday. It has been reported in certain sections of media that commercial banks would have a 5-day week on RBI instructions. This information is not factually correct. RBI has not issued any such directions. Relevant RBI Press […]
