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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 updated FEMA regulations to modify payment modes, sale proceeds remittance, and reporting requirements for NRIs, OCIs, and...
Fema / RBI : The 2026 amendment broadens investment eligibility under FEMA by allowing all individual persons resident outside India to invest ...
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...
Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today announced in his Budget Speech that discussions are underway to further liberalize the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy. All prior regulations and guidelines have earlier been consolidated into one comprehensive document in order to make FDI policy more user friendly. This is reviewed every six months, said the Finance Minister. The last review was released in September 2010.
The Finance Minister also stated that amendments are proposed to the Banking Regulation Act to give some additional licenses to the private sector players. He mentioned that the discussion by way of inviting feedback from the public on the paper issued in this context by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in August 2010 is complete. Shri Mukherjee said, he proposes to bring in this regard in the current Session and RBI is planning to issue the guidelines for banking licenses before close of this financial year.
The Reserve Bank today said it will come out with a discussion paper on deregulation of interest rates on savings account.”There is a view that we should deregulate the interest rate on savings bank accounts too. We are examining the pros and cons of doing that and will shortly put out a Discussion Paper for eliciting feedback,” RBI Governor D Subbarao said at the Convocation function of Sambalpur University.
Soiled notes may soon be a thing of past as the Reserve Bank has asked all bank branches handling large amounts of currency to put in place note-sorting machines by the end of next month with a view to halting re-circulation of unfit currency notes.
The scheduled review in 2009 of “Road Map for presence of foreign banks” laid down in 2005 was put on hold primarily on account of uncertainties caused by the financial crisis in late 2008. Further, many foreign banks applied to RBI for setting up a branch presence in India during the last couple of years. There were representations to consider differentiated banking licenses regime in line with other developed nations. During this time, RBI has had the occasion to study and analyse, the impact on the Indian banking system, of the financial crisis and also the practices followed in other countries.
Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao today said it can change policy stance at any time to rein in inflation based on the macroeconomic situation. “Notwithstanding (the) scheduled quarterly and mid- quarterly reviews, we reserve the right to alter our policy stance at any time to respond to the evolving macroeconomic situation,” Subbarao said said at the Convocation function of Sambalpur University.
The Reserve Bank today said resident Indians cannot trade in forex market as per the existing regulation. The existing regulations under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, do not permit residents to trade in foreign exchange in domestic or overseas markets, RBI said in a statement.
For the first time in the country’s minting history, government will issue coins of Rs. 150, marking the number of years of taxation in India. The special coins, to be released by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee before his Budget speech, will also be brought out in Rs. 5 denomination on the occasion of completion of 150 years, from 1860 to 2010, of the Income Tax department.
These are appeals against the order dated 24.09.2007 of the Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi in L.P.A. No.1098 of 2006 and against the order dated 02.11.2007 of the Division Bench of the High Court of Delhi in Review Application No.396 of 2007.
DBOD.Dir.BC. 81/13.03.00/2010-11- Government of India, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has formulated a scheme on financing of Off-Grid and Decentralised Solar (Photovoltaic and Thermal) applications as part of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). Under the scheme, banks may extend subsidised loans to entrepreneurs at interest rates not exceeding five per cent where refinance of two per cent from Government of India is available. In this context, we advise that such lending at interest rates not exceeding five percent per annum where refinance of Government of India is available, would not be considered to be a violation of our Base Rate Guidelines.
