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Investments by the FIIs shall be subject to extant provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and rules, regulations, notifications, directions or orders issued thereunder, and within such limits as may be set forth in this regard from time to time by the SEBI.
As stated in the Press Release issued by the Reserve Bank of India on November 29, 2010, in order to provide further liquidity comfort, it has been decided to allow Scheduled Commercial Banks to avail of the additional liquidity support under the LAF to the extent of up to 2.0 per cent of their NDTL as on the reporting Friday of the second preceding fortnight with immediate effect up to January 28, 2011. For any shortfall in SLR maintenance arising out of availment of this facility, banks may seek waiver of penal interest on a fortnightly basis purely as an ad hoc, temporary measure. The liquidity support availed under this facility would, however, need to be reported on a daily basis.
It is therefore, advised that SC/RCs on becoming member /members of any Credit Information Company / Companies may provide them the current data in the existing format if not already furnished by the banks/FIs from whom SC/RCs acquire the assets. Care should be taken to ensure that accurate data / history regarding borrowers is given to Credit Information Companies.
With a view to bringing in fairness and transparency, banks are advised that they must transparently disclose to the borrower all information about fees/charges payable for processing the loan application, the amount of fees refundable if loan amount is not sanctioned/disbursed, pre-payment options and charges, if any, penalty for delayed repayments if any, conversion charges for switching loan from fixed to floating rates or vice versa, existence of any interest reset clause and any other matter which affects the interest of the borrower. Such information should also be displayed in the website of the banks, if any, for all categories of loan products.
Accordingly, Reserve Bank of India hereby permits Regional Rural Banks to open branches in Tier 3 to Tier 6 centres (with population up to 49,999 as per Census 2001 – details of classification of centres tier-wise furnished in Annex II) without having the need to take permission from Reserve Bank of India in each case, subject to reporting, provided they fulfil the following conditions as per the latest inspection report.
Accordingly, it has been decided to allow the Authorised Dealer Category- l (AD Category-l) banks to offer the facility of repatriation of export related remittances by entering into standing arrangements with OPGSPs, subject to the following conditions.
UCBs satisfying the above mentioned norms may prepare ABP for opening of branches/ ECs/ up gradation of ECs into full-fledged branches, in their existing area of operation, for the next 12 months, with the approval of their Board of Directors, and submit the ABP in duplicate to the Regional Office concerned. The Annexes accompanying the ABP should be as per the formats prescribed vide our circular dated June 16, 2008.
Further, the path to access the directory of the scheduled commercial banks given in Annex-I of the above mentioned circular is changed and therefore, the revised access path to generate the report on the Directory of AD Category branches is given in the Annex-II. The path to access the Application Software package is given in Annex I. In case of any assistance / clarification, AD banks may communicate by e-mail.
In the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy of the Reserve Bank of India for the Year 2010-11, it was announced that Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) would be allowed current account and SGL account with the Reserve Bank as also membership of INFINET and RTGS. The relevant paragraph of the Review is reproduced below.
The modification of the previous directive referred to in this directive shall not in any manner whatsoever affect any action taken by the Reserve Bank under the previous directive and shall not absolve any primary cooperative bank from its liability in respect of any contravention of or any non compliance with the provisions of the said directive.
