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Fema / RBI : The article explains how routing Indian funds through offshore structures and reinvesting them into India may violate FEMA and att...
Fema / RBI : RBI has introduced a concessional forex swap facility allowing eligible PSUs to hedge ECB and OFCB exposures at a fixed 1.50% cost...
Fema / RBI : RBI's KYC framework mandates customer identification, risk categorization, and ongoing monitoring to combat money laundering and t...
Fema / RBI : The article explains RBI’s decision to reduce the export proceeds realization period from 15 months to 9 months and its impact o...
Fema / RBI : Companies receiving foreign investment must comply with reporting, valuation, and approval requirements under FEMA. Failure to do ...
Fema / RBI : RBI has clarified reporting requirements, valuation methods, submission procedures, and entity obligations under the Portfolio Inv...
Fema / RBI : The amendment redefines revenue reserves by excluding provisions for liabilities and depreciation. This ensures clearer classifica...
Fema / RBI : RBI revises the definition of revenue reserves to exclude provisions and liabilities. The change enhances transparency and consist...
Fema / RBI : The Reserve Bank of India has removed a key provision from capital adequacy norms to ensure consistency with updated investment ru...
Fema / RBI : RBI introduces annual IFR assessment instead of continuous compliance for RRBs. The change reduces operational burden while mainta...
Fema / RBI : The key issue was whether cash falls within the definition of property under the PBPT Act. The Tribunal ruled that cash is a tangi...
Fema / RBI : The case examined whether Indian assets could remain seized after foreign asset value was repatriated. The Tribunal ruled that onc...
Fema / RBI : The appellant claimed the disputed funds were received unknowingly and had attempted to return them. The Tribunal granted relief b...
Fema / RBI : The Tribunal held that bank accounts cannot remain frozen merely because the account holder is related to a suspect or under inves...
Fema / RBI : The Tribunal held that retention of seized assets can continue under Section 8(3) when a PMLA prosecution complaint is already pen...
Fema / RBI : RBI has issued draft amendment directions to harmonise governance standards for risk management, compliance, and internal audit fu...
Fema / RBI : RBI has released draft amendment directions on the Standardised Approach for Counterparty Credit Risk after reviewing legal and re...
Fema / RBI : RBI's 2026 amendment directions permit AIFIs to finance listed InvITs but impose stringent conditions relating to valuation, lever...
Fema / RBI : RBI has amended the Small Finance Banks framework to permit lending to listed InvITs while imposing detailed conditions on leverag...
Fema / RBI : The RBI has classified bank exposures to REITs as Commercial Real Estate exposures with specified risk weights. Overseas branch le...
The National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation (NSTFDC), a wholly owned Government of India Section 25 Company under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, extends financial assistance at concessional rates of interest for viable income generating activities to eligible beneficiaries belonging to Scheduled Tribes.
The Reserve Bank of India today released its ‘Quarterly Statistics on Deposits and Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks, March 2011’. The publication contains data relating to deposits and credit of scheduled commercial banks including regional rural banks (RRBs) as on March 31, 2011. The data are based on Basic Statistical Return (BSR)-7 received from all scheduled commercial banks (including RRBs).
RBI has been increasing policy rates to contain inflation and inflationary expectation to prevent the economy from getting overheated. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the policy rate (the repo rate) eleven times by a cumulative 325 basis points (bps) since October 2009.
As a measure of simplification of the existing procedures, it has been decided to delegate powers to the designated AD Category-I banks to approve the request from the ECB borrowers with respect to change in the recognized lender when the original lender is an international bank or a multilateral financial institution (such as IFC, ADB, CDC, etc.) or a regional financial institution or a Government owned development financial institution or an export credit agency or supplier of equipment and the new lender also belongs to any one of the above mentioned categories, subject to the Authorised Dealer ensuring the following conditions:
Deferred Payment Protocols dated April 30, 1981 and December 23, 1985Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.41 dated February 11, 2011, wherein the Rupee value of the special currency basket was indicated as Rs. 64.7004 effective from January 31, 2011..
Issued by the Ministry of Small Scale Industries and S.O.563 (E) dated February 27, 2009 issued by Ministry of Commerce and Industry regarding substitution of term ‘Micro and Small Enterprises’ in place of the term ‘Small Scale Industries’ are enclosed. Kindly ensure that your internal guidelines / instructions are compliant with these notifications.
Guidelines regarding dealing with pension related matters have been issued by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) vide their circular dated 1.10.2008. These guidelines, inter-alia, stipulate that to streamline pension payment arranged in banks, it would be necessary to establish and operationalise the Central Pension Processing Centers (CPPCs) at an early date. The arrangement of disbursement of pension through the CPPCs would entail following advantages:
Government, in May 2010, advised Public Sector Banks, Indian Banks’ Association and National Housing Bank that no pre-payment charges may be levied by the lending institutions when the loan amount is paid by the borrowers out of their own funds; and if any pre-payment charges are to be imposed on housing loans, the same need to be reasonable and transparent and not out of line with the average cost of providing these services.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued Guidelines on Managing Risks and Code of Conduct in Outsourcing of Financial Services by banks on 3rd November, 2006, to enable the banks to effectively manage the risks arising out of outsourcing. As per these guidelines, the banks are required to put in place a Board approved comprehensive policy
1. Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) will standardise most important terms and conditions (MITC) for at least ten important banking transactions and circulate among banks for adaptation. 2. Banks would initiate the process of providing one view of all bank accounts of a customer including deposits, loans, etc., with the help of available technology, such as, core banking solution. Banks would be complete the process within one year.
