As you are aware, Credit Information Bureau of India Ltd.(CIBIL) has been functioning as a Credit Information Company (CIC) from January 2001 onwards and banks and Financial Institutions have been reporting data to CIBIL as per our letters DBOD No. DL.BC.111/20.16.001/2001-02 and DBOD No. DL.BC.29 /20.16.002/2002-03 dated June 04, 2002 an...

Banks undertaking PD activities departmentally may continue to follow the extant guidelines applicable to banks in regard to the classification and valuation of the investment portfolio issued by our Department of Banking Operations and Development....

State and Central Co-operative Banks grant loans for various purposes against the security of gold /gold ornaments as part of their lending policy. As per extant instructions (c.f. our circular RPCD.RF.BC.No.69/07.37.02/2002-03 dated January 31, 2003), banks charge interest at monthly rests on loans and advances granted for purposes other...

It was proposed to increase the provisioning requirement for advances to the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) sector classified as ‘standard assets’ to 1.00 per cent with a view to building cushion against likely non-performing assets (NPAs). Accordingly, it has been decided to increase the provisioning requirement for advances to the CRE...

Please refer to our circular UBD (PCB) BPD.Cir.No. 7/13.01.000/2009-10 dated September 1, 2009 advising banks to put in place requisite infrastructure so that transition to the revised procedure of calculating interest on balances in savings bank accounts on a daily product basis could be implemented smoothly....

As per the extant ECB policy, infrastructure sector is defined as (i) power, (ii) telecommunication, (iii) railways, (iv) road including bridges, (v) sea port and airport, (vi) industrial parks, (vii) urban infrastructure (water supply, sanitation and sewage projects) and (viii) mining, exploration and refining....

As announced in para 54 of the Union Budget for the Year 2010-11, it has been decided to expand the definition of infrastructure sector, for the purpose of availing of ECB, to include “cold storage or cold room facility, including for farm level pre-cooling, for preservation or storage of agricultural and allied produce, marine product...

As you are aware, for convenient, cost-effective and quick processing and settlement of clearing instruments arising out of normal business activities of banks, an elaborate Clearing House infrastructure is in place in the country. Currently operational at most locations across the length and breadth of the country, Clearing Houses facili...

Over a period of four decades, since the inception of the Lead Bank Scheme (LBS), several changes have taken place necessitating a relook at the scheme to make it more effective in the changed economic scenario with sharper focus on financial inclusion and recent developments in the banking sector. A High Level Committee to review Lead Ba...

Attention of Authorised Dealer Category - I (AD Category - I) banks is invited to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 68 dated June 1, 2007, revising the reporting package on Overseas Direct Investment (ODI) by the Indian Parties. Further, it was also mentioned in the circular that the ODI forms would be received on-line by the Reserve Bank, i...