It has been decided to revise the CDIL and the limit for investment by FPIs in Government Securities and State Development Loans (SDL), for the Financial Year 2018-19, as follows:
Currently, there are no specific guidelines governing the depiction of performance of the surviving scheme, pursuant to merger of schemes. Further, it is observed that Mutual Funds adopt varied practices, such as disclosing the weighted average performance or performance of surviving schemes, while making such disclosures.
Derivatives on stocks (new/existing) which meet the enhanced eligibility criteria (given at para 4 above) shall be cash settled until further notification, however such stocks, if they fail to satisfy any of the enhanced eligibility criteria for a continuous period of three months, shall move from cash settlement to physical settlement.
(a) Identification and verification of Beneficial Owners (i) Beneficial Owner (BO) is the natural person(s) who ultimately owns or controls an FPI and should be identified in accordance with Rule 9 of the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005 (hereinafter referred as PMLA Rules).
What is the investment limit for foreign Government/ foreign Government related entities registered as Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI)? Reply: The purchase of equity shares of each company by a single FPI or an investor group shall be below ten percent of the total paid up capital of the company. [Ref. Regulation 21(7) of FPI Regulations].
In order to facilitate small and medium sized Members, who otherwise find it difficult to avail colocation facility, due to various reasons including but not limited to high cost, lack of expertise in maintenance and troubleshooting, etc. to avail co-location facility, stock exchanges shall introduce ‘Managed Co-location Services’.
Entities regulated by the Reserve Bank shall not deal in VCs or provide services for facilitating any person or entity in dealing with or settling VCs. Such services include maintaining accounts, registering, trading, settling, clearing, giving loans against virtual tokens, accepting them as collateral, opening accounts of exchanges dealing with them and transfer / receipt of money in accounts relating to purchase/ sale of VCs.
(a) The limit for FPI investment in Central Government securities (G-secs) would be increased by 0.5% each year to 5.5% of outstanding stock of securities in 2018- 19 and 6% of outstanding stock of securities in 2019-20.
State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) meetings should primarily focus on policy issues with participation of only the senior functionaries of the banks/ Government Departments. All routine issues may be delegated to sub-committee(s) of the SLBC. A Steering Sub-committee may be constituted in the SLBC to deliberate on agenda proposals from different stakeholders and finalise a compact agenda for the SLBC meetings.
As per FEMA, the onus of compliance with the various foreign investment limits rests on the Indian company. In order to facilitate the listed Indian companies to ensure compliance with the various foreign investment limits, SEBI in consultation with RBI has decided to put in place a new system for monitoring the foreign investment limits. The architecture of the new system has been explained in Annexure A.
