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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...
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Fema / RBI : RBI's KYC framework mandates customer identification, risk categorization, and ongoing monitoring to combat money laundering and t...
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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...
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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...
DPSS.CO.OSD. No. 2764/06.11.001/2010-2011 It is clarified that the contents of the above circular are applicable to only those entities which operate a payment system under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007. Accordingly, the requirement of system audits is not applicable where a bank/entity is a participant in various payment systems such as RTGS, NEFT, CFMS, ECS, NECS, Card payment systems (Visa, MasterCard, etc.), ATM networks (illustratively like NFS, BANCS) etc.
Please refer to Regulation No. 7 of the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Any Foreign Security) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004, dated July 07, 2004, in terms of which an Indian party requires prior approval of the concerned regulatory authorities both in India and abroad, to make an investment in an entity outside India engaged in financial services activities. Further in terms of para B.5.3 of the Master Circular on Direct Investment in Joint Venture (JV) / Wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) abroad dated July 01, 2009 issued by Foreign Exchange Department, RBI, regulated entities in the financial sector making investments in any activity overseas are required to comply with the above regulation.
With a view to providing more operational flexibility to Indian corporates having investments abroad, Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) has decided to further liberalize / rationalize the regulations relating to overseas direct investment by Indian parties by making certain changes vide Rationalization (A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 69) dated 27.05.2011.
Financial stability is the toughest task for autonomy-less central banker who gets torn between governmental priorities and regulatory overlap, making them look like the mythological Greek character Sisyphus who endlessly rolls up a boulder uphill, only to see it slide back. India had set up the Financial Stability and Development Council after recognising the need for stability, but it needs to establish conventions and practices to prevent its ‘spillover’ into monetary policies, said the Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao.
Concerned over the impact of high interest rate on consumer demand, Chief Economic Advisor ( CEA) Kaushik Basu on Friday said the RBI will need to have a re-look at the monetary tightening policy. ‘RBI will have to balance its monetary policy tightening in view of growing concerns, particularly in consumer goods front, where higher interest rates are impacting demand,’ Basu told reporters here.
Country’s largest bank SBI has breached RBI’s credit exposure norms during three consecutive years with regard to its loans provided to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL). The public sector lender, which also has significant exposures to troubled Air India besides certain telecom firms being probed in relation to the 2G scam, has now disclosed that its credit to RIL was in excess of the limits prescribed under the RBI’s prudential credit norms.
Amid rising inflation, Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao today pitched for greater autonomy for the central bank saying that operational freedom would help it focus better on management of prices. Having autonomy frees the central bank from the pressure of responding to short-term developments, deviating from its inflation target and thereby compromising its medium term inflation goals, Subbarao said in a speech at the SAARC Finance Governors’ symposium at Kumarakom in Kerala.
The Reserve Bank of India today released the June Issue of its RBI Bulletin. June issue of the Bulletin carries four special articles: i. India’s Foreign Trade, 2010-11 (April-March)ii. Inflation Expectations Survey of Households: March 2011 (Round 23) iii. Quarterly Industrial Outlook Survey: January-March 2011 – (Round 53) iv. Survey on Computer Software and Information Technology Services Exports: 2009-10.
DBOD.BP.BC.No.99 /21.04.132/2010-11 Banks were advised that if due to lack of expertise / appropriate infrastructure, they find it difficult to ensure computation of diminution in the fair value of advances extended by their small / rural branches, they will have the option of notionally computing the amount of diminution in the fair value and providing therefor at five percent of the total exposure in respect of all restructured accounts where the total dues are less than rupees one crore till the financial year ending March 2011. It was also advised that the position would be reviewed thereafter.
DGBA. CDD. No. H-8545/15.15.001/2010-11 It has been brought to our notice that some of the agency banks do not implement the instructions given in Government of India’s Office Memorandum F. No. 2-8/2004-NS-II dated October 29, 2004 and circulated to agency banks vide our circular RBI/2004-05/259 Ref. CO. DT. No. 15.05.001/H-3999-4021/2004-05 dated October 30, 2004 (copy enclosed), particularly in case of retired army personnel and have denied the facility of this Scheme to some of them in contravention of the instructions ibid.
