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All financial intermediaries, including banks and stocks brokers, will have to maintain specific information about their clients’ political links, if any. This is due to the amendment to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002, notified by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on June 9 and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on June 14.
The Reserve Bank of India, having considered it necessary in public interest and to regulate the financial system of the country to its advantage, in exercise of its powers conferred under sections 45K, 45L and 45W of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and of all the powers enabling it in this behalf, hereby gives to the agencies dealing in securities and money market instruments, the following directions for issuance of Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) of original or initial maturity up to one year.
# has been formulated on the basis of recommendations of a working group constituted for examining the need for standardisation of cheque forms and enhancement of security features therein and after consultations with banks;# has been introduced to curtail cheque frauds on account of alterations in the various fields of cheques and to give protection to customers as well as banks;
Of late, certain serious concerns have been expressed in different quarters and by the Debt Recovery Tribunals over the manner compromise settlements have been effected by banks. One of the DRTs had also observed that banks adopted different parameters to different borrowers, and agreed for a lesser amount as against claimed amount, despite availability of ample securities and by ignoring RBI guidelines.
Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao today said the central bank is in favour of deregulating interest rates on savings accounts as part of financial sector reforms. “Deregulation of interest rates (including savings rates) is an important way forward for reforms. The base rate system that would come in to affect from July 1 is also an important reform method,” he said here.
On the basis of representations received seeking enhancement of limits, it has been decided that banks may waive margin/security requirements for agricultural loans from the existing level of Rs. 50,000/- to Rs. 1,00,000/- with immediate effect. Para 3 of our above circular, therefore, stands suitably modified.
Please refer to the Press Release dated August 10, 2009 on issuance of Government of India Cash Management Bills (CMBs), wherein, it has been stated that the Government of India, in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, has decided to issue a new short-term instrument, known as Cash Management Bills, to meet the temporary cash flow mismatches of the Government. The CMBs will be non-standard, discounted instruments issued for maturities less than 91 days. Further, it has been stated that the CMBs will have the generic character of Treasury Bills.
The Finance Ministry is likely to recommend freezing and closure of bank accounts found suspicious during the ongoing exercise by banks to collect information under the ‘Know Your Customer'(KYC) norms. Banks in both the national and private sector are at present undertaking a one-time exercise to ensure hundred per cent compliance of the KYC procedures from all– new and old–customers.
Please refer to paragraph 2.3.1 of our Master circular UBD. PCB. MC. No.1/13.05.000 / 2009-10 dated July 1, 2009 on Exposure Norms and Statutory / Other restrictions. In terms of the circular, the total exposure of UCBs to real estate including individual housing loans and commercial real estate is restricted to 15% of the total deposit resources of a bank. In view of the requests made by a few banks and the federation, it is clarified as under:
An RBI official today reiterated the central bank’s warning to citizens to ignore fraudulent e -mails that sought to trick them into depositing money in anonymous bank accounts.
