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With inflation hovering much above the comfort zone, the Reserve Bank may raise key policy rates by 25 basis points in its first mid-quarterly review of the credit policy for FY’12 tomorrow. I think the RBI would take one more small step to curb inflationary expectations. Market is expecting a 25 basis points increase, Indian Overseas Bank Chairman and Managing Director M Narendra told PTI.
The Reserve Bank of India presented its assessment of the health of India’s financial sector in its Financial Stability Report (FSR), released here today. The report reflects the Reserve Bank’s continuing endeavour to communicate its assessment of the incipient risks to financial sector stability. The first FSR was released in March 2010 and the second in December 2010. Going forward, FSRs will be released bi-annually in June and December every year.
As a follow up of the implementation of the recommendations of the Working Group on Balance of Payments Manual for India (Chairman: Shri Deepak Mohanty), provisional aggregate data on trade in services have been compiled for the first time for the month of April 2011 based on the data reported by the Authorised Dealers (ADs) under the Foreign Exchange Transactions Electronic Reporting System (FETERS) (Table).
RPCD. GSSD. CO. No.14360 / 09.01.01 CM / 2010 – 11 We advise that the State – wise targets indicated may be allocated among the banks working under the jurisdiction of the SLBC Convenor bank of the State, under advice to us. The SLBCs should finalise the targets of individual banks on the basis of acceptable parameters like resources, number of rural / semi urban branches, etc., so that each of the banks will be in a position to arrive at its corporate target. We will be monitoring the achievement of the credit targets by the scheduled commercial banks through receipt of returns.
NOTIFICATION NO. DNBS.(PD)229/CGM(US)-2011, DATED 14-6-2011 1. No NBFC shall open subsidiaries/joint ventures/representative office abroad or shall make investment in any foreign entities without obtaining prior approval in writing from the Reserve Bank of India. The application from the NBFC seeking No Objection would be considered subject to these directions. 2. These directions are in addition to those prescribed by Foreign Exchange Department for opening of branches abroad or for investments in Joint Venture/Wholly Owned Subsidiary.
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated March 28, 2011 with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania making available to the latter, a Line of Credit (LoC) of USD 36.56 million (USD thirty six million and five hundred sixty thousand) for financing eligible goods and services including consultancy services from India for the purpose of financing the purchase of 723 vehicles under the India Africa Fund into Tanzania.
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.
