In order to provide operational flexibility and ease the procedures, it has been decided to permit AD Category –I bank to issue bank guarantee, without prior approval of the Reserve Bank, on behalf of a non-resident acquiring shares or convertible debentures of an Indian company through open offers/ delisting/exit offers, provided :
It is observed by the Hon’ble Shri justice Anoop V. Mohta that the Office is not taking care to put/write the Full name of His Lordship and they are still writing His Lordship’s name as ‘A. V. Mohta’ instead of ‘Anoop V. Mohta’ and directed this Registry to issue immediate directions to all concerned.
On a review of the evolving market conditions and with a view to providing operational flexibility to exporters and importers to hedge their foreign exchange risk, it has now been decided to: (a) allow exporters to cancel and rebook forward contracts to the extent of 50 percent of the contracts booked in a financial year for hedging their contracted export exposures, and
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 24 dated August 14, 2013. In this connection, Reserve Bank has been receiving queries from the various stakeholders and Authorised Dealer banks. All such queries have been collated and are given at the annex together with the answers/ clarifications.
Reference is invited to Board’s Circular No. 28/2009 dated 14.10.2009 regarding procedure to be followed by the Nominated Agencies for supplying duty free gold to exporters. RBI has now issued fresh guidelines for import of gold and gold dore bars vide circular RBI/2013-14/187, AP (DIR Series) Circular No. 25 dated 14.8.2013, as revised (copy enclosed).
On a review, it has been decided to permit eligible borrowers to avail of ECB under the approval route from their foreign equity holder company with minimum average maturity of 7 years for general corporate purposes subject to the following conditions:
Central Government has issued notifications no 29/2012-CE, 30/2012-CE, 31/2012-CE, 32/2012-CE and 33/2012-CE all dated 9th July, 2012 to exempt certain manufactured goods when cleared against the specified duty credit scrip issued to an exporter.
Overseas Direct Investment by an Indian Party (IP) for the purpose of A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 23 dated August 14, 2013 and this Circular would mean the total financial commitment as laid down in Regulation 2 (f) of Notification No. FEMA.120/RB-2004 dated July 7, 2004.
An FMI should have clear and comprehensive rules and procedures and should provide sufficient information to enable participants to have an accurate understanding of the risks, fees, and other material costs they incur by participating in the FMI. All relevant rules and key procedures should be publicly disclosed.
Please refer to SEBI circular SMDRPD/Policy/Cir-37/2001 dated June 28, 2001 directing stock exchanges to implement an index based market wide circuit breaker system to affect a coordinated trading halt in all equity and equity derivative markets on index movement either way of 10%, 15% and 20%.
