RBI Notifications includes Notifications, Circulars, Guidelines, Press release issued by Reserve Bank of India & GOI Related to Banking and Fema Law.
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We advise that the names of 5 amalgamated Regional Rural Banks have been included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 by notification RPCD.CO.RRB.No.11377/ 03.05.100/ 2010-11 March 31, 2011 published in the Extraordinary Gazette of India (Part III- Sec.4) dated June 13, 2011.
In order to facilitate greater use of Indian Rupee in trade transactions, as announced in the Monetary Policy Statement for the year 2011-12 (para 85), it has been decided to allow non-resident importers and exporters to hedge their currency risk in respect of exports from and imports to India, invoiced in Indian Rupees, with AD Category I banks in India, as per details given in the Annex.
Banks are, therefore, advised that while preparing their Annual Branch Expansion Plan (ABEP), they should allocate at least 25 percent of the total number of branches proposed to be opened during a year in unbanked rural (Tier 5 and Tier 6) centres. An unbanked rural centre would mean a rural (Tier 5 and Tier 6) centre that does not have a brick and mortar structure of any scheduled commercial bank for customer based banking transactions.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided that all foreign entities including NGOs/ NPOs/Government bodies and news agencies, operating in India through BOs/ LOs, who are continuing to function in India without obtaining any approval from RBI i.e. established under erstwhile FERA provisions, should approach RBI within 90 days from the date of issue of this circular (i.e. 15 July 2011) for regularization of establishment of such offices in India, in terms of extant FEMA provisions. A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 02
Accordingly, we advise you to furnish data on priority sector advances in the revised format to Rural Planning and Credit Department, Central Office, Statistics Division, 10th Floor, New Central Office Building, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Mumbai 400 001, on a quarterly basis as on last reporting Fridays of March, June, September and December of a particular year within fifteen days from the reference date.
On a review, it has been decided that Clearing Houses / Processing Centres will now calculate and settle the charges payable as prescribed in the circular. Under the revised arrangement, the charges payable by the originating banks to destination banks (including the service tax applicable thereon), will be calculated and settled by the Clearing Houses using the multilateral netting method. However, the service tax will be calculated on gross obligations of the banks.Necessary MIS reports will be provided to the banks to enable them to remit the service tax to the Government.
Following the announcement in the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy 2010-11 (paragraph 107) that guidelines stipulating the prudential limits to regulate the investment of banks in companies engaged in forms of business other than financial services will be issued separately, the Reserve Bank of India the Reserve Bank of India today released on its website, Draft Guidelines on Equity Investments by scheduled commercial banks in subsidiaries and other companies for comments and feedback.
IDMD.PCD.06/14.03.07/2011-12 The settlement of trades in Government securities through CCIL was shifted from DvP II to DvP III with effect from April 02, 2004 videcircular IDMD.PDRD.05/10.02.01/2003-04 dated March 29, 2004. It was however clarified vide circular IDMD.PDRS.01/10.02.01/2004-05 dated July 23, 2004 that the DvP III facility will not be available to transactions undertaken by the Gilt Account Holders.
Please refer to paragraph 112 of the Monetary Policy Statement 2011-12 (extract enclosed) wherein it has been indicated that banks’ investments in liquid schemes of mutual funds have grown manifold. The liquid schemes continue to rely heavily on institutional investors such as commercial banks whose redemption requirements are likely to be large and simultaneous; on the other hand, they are large lenders in the over-night markets such as collateralised borrowing and lending obligation (CBLO) and market repo, where banks are large borrowers.
Consolidation of FDI Policy: With the aim of simplifying FDI policy, promoting clarity of understanding of foreign investment rules among foreign investors/sectoral regulators and having a single policy platform, so as to ease the regulatory burden for Government, a major exercise of integrating all existing regulations on FDI, into one consolidated document, was undertaken. The process of consolidation involved integration of 178 Press Notes, covering various aspects of FDI policy, which had been issued since 1991, as also a large number of other regulations governing FDI. The document was released as ‘Circular 1 of 2010’, on 31 March, 2010, as per the commitment made. The document has also been updated at six monthly intervals, to ensure that it remains current and updated.
