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Please refer to our circular UBD (PCB) CO.BPD. Cir. No. 15 / 14.01.062 / 2009-10 dated October 22, 2009 on the above subject. We have since received from Government of India (Ministry of External Affairs) copies of notes dated September 3, 2009; September 23, 2009 and October 22, 2009 from the Chairman of UN Security Council’s 1267 Committee regarding changes made in the Consolidated List of Individuals and entities linked to Al-Qaida and Taliban as specified below:
As per the extant instructions, provisions made for NPAs as per prudential norms are deducted from the amount of Gross NPAs to arrive at the amount of Net NPAs. In cases where banks make specific provision for NPAs in excess of what is prescribed under the prudential norms, the total specific provision may be deducted from the amount of Gross NPAs while reporting the amount of Net NPAs. The additional specific provision made by the bank will not be reckoned as Tier II capital.
State and Central Co-operative Banks are required to update the consolidated list of individuals/entities as circulated by Reserve Bank and before opening any new account, it should be ensured that the name/s of the proposed customer does not appear in the list. Further, banks should scan all existing accounts to ensure that no account is held by or linked to any of the entities or individuals included in the list.
Know Your Customer (KYC) Norms/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Standards/Combating of Financing of Terrorism (CFT). Please refer to our letter RPCD.CO.RRB.No.5451/03.05.28-A/2009-10 dated November 16, 2009 on risks arising from the deficiencies in AML/CFT regime of Iran,Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Sao Tome and Principe.
“Keeping in view the need for transparency in the interest of the customers… it has since been decided that Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) should disclose to the customers, details of all the commissions or other fees received, if any, from various mutual fund or insurance companies for marketing or referring their products,” RBI said in a notification.
Please refer to our circular letter DBOD.AML.No.8299/14.06.057/2009-10 dated November 11, 2009. We have since received from Government of India (Ministry of External Affairs) copy of note dated December 3, 2009 from the Chairman of UN Security Council’s 1267 Committee regarding changes made in the Consolidated List of Individuals and entities linked to Al-Qaida and Taliban (copy enclosed).
Attention of Authorized Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 46 dated January 2, 2009, A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 64 dated April 28, 2009 and A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 71 dated June 30, 2009 relating to External Commercial Borrowings (ECB).
In terms of paragraph 2(a) of our circular UBD.PCB.Cir. No 29 / 09.11.600 / 2008-09 dated December 1, 2008, the provisioning requirements for all types of standard assets in case of Tier II UCBs had been reduced to a uniform level of 0.40 per cent except in the case of direct advances to Agriculture and SME sectors which continued to attract a provisioning of 0.25 per cent. Tier I UCBs were also advised to make a general provision of 0.25% on all their standard assets.
Please find enclosed Circular DBOD.No.BP.BC.64/21.04.048/2009-10 dated December 1, 2009 on the above subject. In this connection, it is advised that the above guidelines issued to banks, shall mutatis mutandis apply to the select All-India Financial Institutions (AIFIs).
Payment of salary outside India to employees of a foreign company who are on secondment to an office, branch, subsidiary or joint venture in India (Indian entity) of the foreign company. The remittance of salary received by foreign nationals whilst resident in India who are employees of Indian companies.
