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Fema / RBI : Explains RBI's cancellation of 135 NBFC registrations under Section 45-IA, the SBR framework, cancellation grounds and the regulat...
Fema / RBI : RBI's draft guidance highlights Board oversight, data governance and accountability as key foundations for responsible AI adoption...
Fema / RBI : Know the FLA Return filing requirement under FEMA, due date, FLAIR portal process, reporting rules, revisions and key compliance r...
Fema / RBI : FEMA Compounding Rules, 2024, RBI Directions and April 2025 amendments revise compounding, digital filing, jurisdictional limits a...
Fema / RBI : Explains NRI and resident status under FEMA, Section 3 restrictions, current and capital account transactions, and examples of per...
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 : Bombay HC permitted withdrawal of wilful defaulter orders and directed fresh proceedings after disclosure of relevant material, pe...
Fema / RBI : Calcutta HC permitted the borrower to file a fresh RBI Ombudsman complaint in the prescribed format and directed its consideration...
Fema / RBI : Calcutta HC directed completion of liquidation of 32 banking companies within six months with periodic reporting to RBI....
Fema / RBI : The Karnataka High Court upheld the Appellate Tribunal's finding that the respondents satisfied the definition of person resident ...
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 : RBI released draft Foreign Investment Rules, 2026 for public comments until August 31, 2026, proposing a simplified, principle-b...
Fema / RBI : RBI released draft data governance guidance for regulated entities, inviting comments by August 17, 2026, on governance, data qual...
Fema / RBI : RBI consolidates SRVA instructions, supersedes earlier circulars, permits FEMA transactions through SRVAs, and updates reporting w...
Fema / RBI : RBI amends Local Area Bank Directions on SNFA income recognition, reversal of unrealised income and accounting treatment, effectiv...
Fema / RBI : RBI amends RRB income recognition norms for SNFAs, prescribing treatment of unrealised income and realised receipts from October 1...
Concerned over the impact of high interest rate on consumer demand, Chief Economic Advisor ( CEA) Kaushik Basu on Friday said the RBI will need to have a re-look at the monetary tightening policy. ‘RBI will have to balance its monetary policy tightening in view of growing concerns, particularly in consumer goods front, where higher interest rates are impacting demand,’ Basu told reporters here.
Country’s largest bank SBI has breached RBI’s credit exposure norms during three consecutive years with regard to its loans provided to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL). The public sector lender, which also has significant exposures to troubled Air India besides certain telecom firms being probed in relation to the 2G scam, has now disclosed that its credit to RIL was in excess of the limits prescribed under the RBI’s prudential credit norms.
Amid rising inflation, Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao today pitched for greater autonomy for the central bank saying that operational freedom would help it focus better on management of prices. Having autonomy frees the central bank from the pressure of responding to short-term developments, deviating from its inflation target and thereby compromising its medium term inflation goals, Subbarao said in a speech at the SAARC Finance Governors’ symposium at Kumarakom in Kerala.
The Reserve Bank of India today released the June Issue of its RBI Bulletin. June issue of the Bulletin carries four special articles: i. India’s Foreign Trade, 2010-11 (April-March)ii. Inflation Expectations Survey of Households: March 2011 (Round 23) iii. Quarterly Industrial Outlook Survey: January-March 2011 – (Round 53) iv. Survey on Computer Software and Information Technology Services Exports: 2009-10.
DBOD.BP.BC.No.99 /21.04.132/2010-11 Banks were advised that if due to lack of expertise / appropriate infrastructure, they find it difficult to ensure computation of diminution in the fair value of advances extended by their small / rural branches, they will have the option of notionally computing the amount of diminution in the fair value and providing therefor at five percent of the total exposure in respect of all restructured accounts where the total dues are less than rupees one crore till the financial year ending March 2011. It was also advised that the position would be reviewed thereafter.
DGBA. CDD. No. H-8545/15.15.001/2010-11 It has been brought to our notice that some of the agency banks do not implement the instructions given in Government of India’s Office Memorandum F. No. 2-8/2004-NS-II dated October 29, 2004 and circulated to agency banks vide our circular RBI/2004-05/259 Ref. CO. DT. No. 15.05.001/H-3999-4021/2004-05 dated October 30, 2004 (copy enclosed), particularly in case of retired army personnel and have denied the facility of this Scheme to some of them in contravention of the instructions ibid.
A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 70 Attention of the AD Category-I banks is invited to paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to the Notification No. FEMA 5 /2000-RB dated 3rd May 2000, viz. Foreign Exchange Management (Deposit) Regulations, 2000, as amended from time to time, in terms of which when a person resident in India leaves India for a country (other than Nepal or Bhutan) for taking up employment, or for carrying on business or vocation outside India or for any other purpose indicating her / his stay outside India for an uncertain period, her / his existing account should be designated as a Non-Resident (Ordinary) [NRO] Account.
Amid suggestions for opening up of multi-brand retail for foreign investments, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said discussions were on to further liberalise the FDI policy. ‘Discussions are underway to further liberalise the FDI (foreign direct investment) policy,’ he said at the annual conference of chief commissioners and directors general of Central Board of Excise and Customs ( CBEC )) at New Delhi.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised public not to fall prey to fictitious information of being beneficiary of funds such as those from winning lotteries. This misleading information claims remittance of such funds by overseas entities to banks in the country. Remittance in any form towards participation in lottery schemes is prohibited under the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, RBI”s Regional Director Jasbir Singh told reporters here today.
To be able to truly appreciate the importance of non-financial reporting, we have to step back in time to recollect how the parameters for evaluation of corporate performance have been changing over the years. During the initial phases, when business was organized as sole proprietorship or partnership firms, profit was the dominant indictor of the performance. Subsequently, with the formation of joint stock companies and the development of stock markets, corporate performance was judged by market capitalization, share price and certain financial ratios such as Earnings Per Share (EPS), Return on Equity (ROE), etc.
