Reserve Bank of India
RBI/2020-21/104
DOR.No.CRE.BC.45/21.01.003/2020-21
February 24, 2021
All Scheduled Commercial Banks
(Excluding Small Finance Banks, Payments Banks
Local Area Banks and Regional Rural Banks)
Dear Sir/Madam,
Large Exposures Framework – Exemptions
Please refer to circular No. DBR.No.BP.BC.43/21.01.003/2018-19 dated June 03, 2019 on Large Exposures Framework (LEF)
2. Paragraph 3 of the Annex to the above circular specifies the exposures that are exempt from the LEF. On a review, it has been decided to further exempt the following exposures from the LEF:
- Exposures to foreign sovereigns or their central banks that are:
i. subject to a 0% risk weight under Table 2 of paragraph 5.3.1 of the Master Circular – Basel III Capital Regulations dated July 1, 2015, as modified vide circular dated October 8, 2015; and,
ii. denominated in the domestic currency of that sovereign and met out of resources of the same currency.
Yours faithfully,
(Manoranjan Mishra)
Chief General Manager
