Fema / RBI : The 2026 FEMA amendment removes uncertainty surrounding INR borrowings by resident individuals from NRIs and OCI relatives. The RB...
Fema / RBI : The issue concerns alternative settlement mechanisms for international trade. The framework allows INR-based transactions with fle...
Fema / RBI : The 2026 FEMA Regulations replace the fragmented 2015 framework with a single, consolidated regime for goods and services. The key...
Fema / RBI : Understand RBI's Master Direction on Supervisory Returns for NBFCs. Learn about applicability, definitions, and timelines for vari...
Fema / RBI : Learn about the process and documentation required for FDI reporting in Form FC-GPR, including timelines, penalties, and other key...
Fema / RBI : BCAS submits comments on RBI’s draft External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) regulations, seeking clarity on eligibility, KYC norms...
Fema / RBI : Explore the latest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy amendments in Indias space sector. Understand the changes in caps, entry...
Corporate Law : In terms of instructions issued vide A.P. (Dir Series) circular No.45 dated September 16, 2013, the Reserve Bank of India had faci...
Fema / RBI : On a review of the conditions in the global financial markets, it has been decided to continue with the enhanced all-in-cost ceili...
Corporate Law : As per the extant ECB procedures, requests for reduction in the amount of ECB, changes in the drawdown schedule and reduction in t...
Fema / RBI : Directorate of Enforcement Vs. Subhash Muljimal Gandhi ( Delhi HC)- that interest at the rate of 6% per annum under Rule 8 could ...
Fema / RBI : Ketan V. Parekh Vs. Special Director, Directorate of Enforcement and another (Supreme Court)- Ketan Parikh, Kartik Parikh and M/s....
Fema / RBI : Binod Kumar Versus State of Jharkhand & Others- In the impugned judgment, it is mentioned that the basic allegation is amassing of...
Fema / RBI : Foreign exchange --Contravention of provisions of Act--Liable to prosecution as well as penalty by adjudicating officer--Proceedin...
Fema / RBI : The relief sought for by the petitioner seeking permission to be accompanied by an advocate of his choice when he appears before t...
Fema / RBI : RBI has notified Foreign Exchange Management (Authorised Persons) Regulations, 2026 to streamline authorisation norms under FEMA. ...
Fema / RBI : RBI notified the Foreign Exchange Management (Authorised Persons) Regulations, 2026 introducing revised eligibility, compliance, a...
Fema / RBI : The issue involved foreign investment limits in the insurance sector under FEMA regulations. The amendment allows up to 100% FDI u...
Fema / RBI : The issue involved foreign investment from countries sharing land borders with India. The amendment mandates Government approval f...
Fema / RBI : The update prohibits most INR derivative contracts with related entities. Only specific transactions such as cancellations and non...
Government may soon ask companies with less than 50 per cent foreign equity to seek approval of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board to make any downstream investment.
The government notified the ban on FDI in cigarette manufacturing. The decision was taken by the Union Cabinet on April 8. “Manufacturing of cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes” have been put under the list of sectors where FDI is prohibited.
As per the extant External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) policy, Infrastructure Finance Companies (IFCs) i.e. Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) categorized as IFCs by the Reserve Bank were permitted to avail of ECBs for on-lending to infrastructure sector under approval route subject to satisfaction of prescribed conditions.
Foreign travellers can carry 50% more foreign exchange in cash than they could earlier. In a move towards further liberalisation of its foreign exchange policy, the Reserve Bank of India said it has increased the cash limit for foreign travel from $2,000 to $3,000 with immediate effect.
In the Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, 2000, in schedule II, item number 8 and the entry relating thereto shall be omitted.
RBI has asked finance companies to obtain a no-objection certificate from it before investing overseas, it said on Monday. The company will also have to clearly mention the activities that will be done by the overseas entity while making an application to RBI.
Attention of the Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident Outside India) Regulations, 2000, notified vide Notification No. FEMA 20/2000-RB dated May 3, 2000, as amended from time to time.
Instances have been observed where NBFCs have made overseas investments without regulatory clearance of the Department of Non-Banking Supervision, Reserve Bank of India. Any investments made by NBFCs without regulatory clearance is a violation of FEMA 2004 and attracts penal provisions.
Government on Friday said that ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank cannot be called Indian-owned banks, setting at rest the debate generated over the nationality of the top two private sector lenders. At best, the two can be called as Indian-controlled banks,” DIPP secretary R P Singh said when asked about the government’s stand in the wake of the two seeking clarifications on the matter.
India today said it would next month initiate discussion on liberalising Foreign Direct Investment in sectors ranging from defence to agriculture and even retail — a source of political woes for the government in the past. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the nodal agency for framing FDI policies, will come out with six discussion papers in mid-May on overseas investment norms.
