Issue of Guidelines for Appointment of Statutory Central Auditors (SCAs)/Statutory Auditors (SAs) of Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs), UCBs Reserve Bank of Indiaand NBFCs (including Housing Finance Companies)
All Provisional Ratings (‘long term’ or ‘short term’) for debt instruments shall be prefixed as ‘Provisional’ before the rating symbol in all communications viz. rating letter, press release / rating rationale, etc.
As per Para 6.4, whether the time gap of one year between any non-audit works by the SCAs/SAs for the Entities or any audit/non-audit works for its Group Entities has to be ensured for all the Entities in the Group or the RBI Regulated Entities in the Group?
The Chair of the board shall be an independent director. In the absence of the Chair of the board, the meetings of the board shall be chaired by an independent director. The quorum for the board meetings shall be one-third of the total strength of the board or three directors, whichever is higher. At least half of the directors attending the meetings of the board shall be independent directors.
This circular shall be adopted for computation of regulatory capital prescribed for an FC/FU as the case may be, registered under section 3 of IFSCA (Finance Company) Regulations, 2021 and intending to undertake the activities as mentioned in point 5 and point 6 of the Schedule therein, viz.;
ISFCA fee structure for Finance Company/ Units is as follows: a) Application fee: $1000 for new entities (one time) b) Registration fee: $12,500 for new entities (one time) c) Annual fee: $12,500 for all registered Finance Company/Finance Unit (second year onwards)
Temporary Relaxation in the Training Guidelines for conducting all types of training programme through online mode instead of physical batches (classroom mode) due to persistent rise of COVID 19 cases in India.
There are reports of certain network providers (hospitals) charging high rates and insisting on cash payments from the policyholders for providing treatment to COVID-19 infected patients despite having cashless arrangement with Insurers.
Commercial Banks may pay dividend on equity shares from the profits for the financial year ended March 31, 2021, subject to the quantum of dividend being not more than fifty percent of the amount determined as per the dividend payout ratio prescribed in paragraph 4 of the said circular. Other instructions in the circular dated May 4, 2005 shall remain unchanged.
nvestments-Master Circular permits insurers to invest in Units of listed Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Consequent to Finance Act, 2021 permitting Trusts to issue Debt Securities, the following conditions shall apply to Insurers investing in Debt Securities issued by InvITs / REITs