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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...
StanChart Bank expects food prices to push up overall inflation to 8.3 per cent in December, which will prompt the Central Bank to raise policy rates by 50 basis points in the current fiscal. The bank said in its report that it expects the first rate
A medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in plant and machinery (original cost excluding land and building and the items specified by the Ministry of Small Scale Industries vide its notification No. S.O.1722(E) dated October 5, 2006) is more than Rs.5 crore but does not exceed Rs.10 crore.+
It has been brought to our notice that for opening bank accounts of salaried employees some banks rely on a certificate / letter issued by the employer as the only KYC document for the purposes of certification of identity as well as address proof. Such a practice is open to misuse and fraught with risk.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today gave banks another six months till June 30 to adopt the new method for computing base rate — below which lenders are not allowed to extend loans. “Banks are permitted to change the benchmark and methodology u
In partial modification of paragraph 2(iii) of the above mentioned circular, we advise that banks are permitted to change the benchmark and methodology used in the computation of Base Rate for a further period of six months i.e. upto June 30, 2011. DBOD.No.Dir.BC.73/13.03.00/2010-11, Date :- January 6, 2011
Next time you go to a bank ATM, be ready to re-enter your PIN afresh for every transaction you wish to conduct, such as money withdrawal, balance enquiry and checking account details. In order to check misuse of ATM cards by unauthorised people, RBI
The Reserve Bank of India, having considered it necessary in public interest and being satisfied that, for the purpose of enabling the Bank to regulate the credit system to the advantage of the country, it is necessary to amend the Non-Banking Financial (Non- Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007.
It is observed that many a time, names of Directors of various firms/companies are similar. It is, therefore, necessary to ensure that Directors are correctly identified and in no case, names appearing to be similar to the names of Directors appearing in the list of defaulting borrowers are wrongfully denied credit facilities on such grounds. To avoid such situations, it has been decided that the Director Identification Number (DIN) may be included as one of the fields in the data format submitted by State and Central Co-operative Banks to credit information companies. Such provision of DIN will further ensure that the data relating to credit information is accurate and complete.
The Reserve Bank of India has launched the 53rd round of the Industrial Outlook Survey (IOS) for reference period January –March 2011. The Reserve Bank is conducting the Industrial Outlook Survey on a quarterly basis since 1998. The survey gives an i
Looking to speed up the transfer of funds electronically, banks will henceforth only take into account customers’ account numbers for such transactions, ignoring other details like names. The new mechanism is intended to reduce the possibility of any
