Loan transfers are resorted to by lending institutions for multitude of reasons ranging from liquidity management, rebalancing their exposures or strategic sales. A robust secondary market in loans can be an important mechanism for management of credit exposures by lending institutions and also create additional avenues for raising liquidity. It is therefore necessary to lay down a comprehensive, self-contained set of regulatory guidelines governing transfer of loan exposures.
Securitisation involves transactions where credit risk in assets are redistributed by repackaging them into tradeable securities with different risk profiles which may give investors of various classes access to exposures which they otherwise might be unable to access directly.
1.1 These Directions shall be called the Master Direction – Reserve Bank of India (Market-makers in OTC Derivatives) Directions, 2021. 1.2 These Directions shall come into force on January 03, 2022.
The Reserve Bank of India has, from time to time, issued several guidelines/instructions/directives to the banks on the presentation of financial statements, regulatory clarification on compliance with accounting standards, and disclosures in notes to accounts.
Master Directions on Prepaid Payment Instruments (MD-PPIs) provide a framework for authorisation, regulation and supervision of entities issuing and operating PPIs in the country;
(a) These Directions shall be called the Reserve Bank of India (Classification, Valuation and Operation of Investment Portfolio of Commercial Banks) Directions, 2021. (b) These Directions shall come into effect from August 25, 2021.
(a) These Directions shall be called the Reserve Bank of India Directions, – 2021 on Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR). (b) These Directions shall come into effect on the day these are placed on the official website of the Reserve Bank of India.
CDs may be issued at a discount to the face value. CDs may also be issued on a fixed / floating rate basis provided the interest rate on the floating rate CD is reset at periodic rests agreed to at the time of issue and is linked to a benchmark published by a Financial Benchmark Administrator or approved by the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (FIMMDA) for this purpose. FIMMDA shall ensure that any floating rate approved by them for this purpose is determined transparently, objectively and in arm’s length transactions.
Master Direction on Levy of Penal Interest for Delayed Reporting/Wrong Reporting/Non-Reporting of Currency Chest Transactions and Inclusion of Ineligible Amounts in Currency Chest Balances.Reporting of Currency Chest Transactions-The minimum amount of deposit into/withdrawal from currency chest will be Rs.1,00,000/- and thereafter, in multiples of Rs.50,000/-.
RBI Master Direction on Currency Distribution & Exchange Scheme (CDES) based on performance in rendering customer service to the members of public