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In terms of para 3(ii)(a) of the aforesaid Notification, loan disbursed by an NBFC-MFI to a borrower with a rural household annual income not exceeding Rs. 60,000 or urban and semi-urban household income not exceeding Rs. 1,20,000 would be eligible to be defined as qualifying asset. In order to widen the scope, it has been decided that loan disbursed by an NBFC-MFI to a borrower with a rural household annual income not exceeding Rs. 1,00,000 or urban and semi-urban household income not exceeding Rs. 1,60,000 would be eligible to be defined as a qualifying asset.
Further, in terms of the circular dated April 22, 2014, it was advised that utilisation of export advances, received on the strength of guarantees issued by Indian banks, for repayment of loans availed of from Indian banks (except in cases where banks have received
We have been receiving representations from banks that, in the case of projects which have been stalled primarily due to inadequacies of the current promoters, a change in ownership/management may be required to revive the project. However, the new promoters/developers may require additional time to revive/complete the stalled projects.
External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) refer to commercial loans in the form of bank loans, buyers’ credit, suppliers’ credit, securitized instruments (e.g. floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds, non-convertible, optionally convertible or partially convertible preference shares) availed of from non-resident lenders with a minimum average maturity of 3 years.
With a view to further liberalising the procedure and as the Working Group structure has been dismantled, it has been decided to withdraw the limit of USD 20 million for Buyer’s credit which may be extended to foreign buyers in connection with export of goods on deferred payment terms and turn key projects from India.
The default rule is that any two documents, out of those listed in paragraphs of the Master Circulars mentioned above, should be provided as activity proof by a proprietary concern. However, in cases where the banks are satisfied that it is not possible to furnish two such documents, they would have the discretion to accept only one of those documents as activity proof.
The entire amount due to the bank (irrespective of the quantum of security held against such assets), or for which the bank is liable (including in case of deposit accounts), is to be provided for over a period not exceeding four quarters commencing with the quarter in which the fraud has been detected;
The Government of India have vide their Office Memorandum (OM) No.6/01/2011-NS.II dated March 31, 2015, advised the rate of interest on various small savings schemes for the financial year 2015-16. Accordingly, the rates of interest on PPF 1968, SCSS 2004, Kisan Vikas Patra & Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme for the financial year 2015-16, effective from April 01, 2015, on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in in the schemes, will be as under:
Presently, FPIs can take position – both long (bought) as well as short(sold) – in foreign currency up to USD 10 million or equivalent per exchange . As a measure of further liberalisation, it has now been decided to increase the limit (long as well as short) for FPIs in USD-INR pair upto USD 15 million per exchange
Presently, domestic participants are allowed to take a long (bought) as well as short (sold) position upto USD 10 million per exchange. As a measure of further liberalisation, it has now been decided to increase the limit (long as well as short) in USD-INR pair upto USD 15 million per exchange. In addition, domestic participants shall be allowed to take long as well as short positions in EUR-INR, GBP-INR and JPY-INR pairs, all put together, upto USD 5 million equivalent per exchange. These limits shall be monitored by the exchanges and breaches, if any, may be reported.
