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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 Reserve Bank has missed the deadline to issue the much-awaited guidelines for giving new banking licences. “I am sure we are not issuing it (licence) today,” RBI Deputy Governor K C Chakrabarty told PTI. In the Budget 2011-12, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee had said the RBI plans to issue guidelines for the grant of new banking licences before the close of this financial year.
The Central Registry has become operational with effect from today i.e.31st March,2011.In his Budget speech for 2011-12, the Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee had announced that the Central Registry would be operationalised by March 31, 2011. The objective of setting-up the Central Registry is to prevent frauds in loan cases involving multiple lending from different banks on the same immovable property. The Central Registry Of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction And Security Interest Of India, a Government Company, licensed under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 has been incorporated for the purpose of operating and maintaining the Central Registry under the provisions of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act 2002).
Making payments through cheques may become a costlier affair from tomorrow, as RBI has allowed banks to levy higher service charges for their clearing, especially of high-value and outstation cheques. As per a RBI circular coming into effect from April 1, 2011, banks would be free to fix service charges on speed clearing of cheques of value above Rs 1 lakh.
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 57 dated June 29, 2010 enhancing the period of realization and repatriation to India of the amount representing the full export value of goods or software exported, from six months to twelve months from the date of export. This relaxation was up to March 31, 2011.
With improvement in economic growth, the financial position of the states has started showing improvement and they are moving towards the path of fiscal consolidation, says a RBI report. “The budgetary position of States in 2010-11 indicated a turnaround from the expansionary fiscal stance in 2008-09 and 2009-10 to a fiscal consolidation path in 2010-11,” said State Finances:A Study of Budgets of 2010-11, released by RBI.
FEMA : Export of Goods and Software – Realisation and Repatriation of export proceeds – Liberalisation. A.P. (DIR SERIES) CIRCULAR NO. 47, DATED 31-3-2011. Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 57, dated June 29, 2010 enhancing the period of realization and repatriation to India of the amount representing the full export value of goods or software exported, from six months to twelve months from the date of export. This relaxation was up to March 31, 2011.
NOTIFICATION NO. GSR 278(E), DATED 31-3-2011 – In exercise of the powers conferred under sub-section (1) of section 21 of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002, the Central Government hereby appoints Shri R.V. Verma, Chairman and Managing Director, National Housing Bank (NHB), as the Central Registrar to hold additional charge of the Central Registrar for the purpose of registration of transactions relating to securitization, reconstruction of financial assets and security interest created over properties.
The Central Government hereby, entrusts the operations and administration of the Central Registry and the Maintenance of the Central Register to a Government Company licensed under section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956, namely, the Central Registry of Securitisation Asset Reconstruction and Security Interest of India, having its Registered Office at the place mentioned in Column 2 of the above given Table.
These rules may be called the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (Central Registry) Rules, 2011. 2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
RPCD.CO.FID. BC.No.58 /12.01.018/2010-11 – We invite your attention to our circular RPCD.CO.MFFI.BC.NO.86/12.01.018/2008-09 dated February 4, 2009 communicating a ‘Model scheme’ with regard to establishment of Financial Literacy and Credit Counselling Centres (FLCCs). In the Model Scheme, it was envisaged that in order to have maximum coverage, FLCCs may need to be set up at all levels viz. block, district, town and city levels. Accordingly banks were expected to initiate setting up of FLCCs.
