Consequent to the Budget proposal for the year 2013-2014 and the recent amendments to the Prevention of Money Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005 (Rules), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has rationalised the KYC norms for entry of FPIs (vide their circular MIRSD/07/2013 dated September 12, 2013).
Prior approval of RBI is required in case of any takeover/acquisition of shares of an NBFC; or merger/amalgamation of an NBFC with another entity; or any merger/amalgamation of an entity with an NBFC, that would give the acquirer/ another entity control of the NBFC, or would result in acquisition/transfer of shareholding in excess of 10 percent of the paid up capital of the NBFC.
Accordingly, it is advised that urban cooperative banks will not be permitted to charge foreclosure charges/ pre-payment penalties on all floating rate term loans sanctioned to individual borrowers, with immediate effect
No. LAD-NRO/GN/2014-15/03/1089.- Date- 23rd May, 2014 In exercise of the powers conferred by section 30 read with clause (k) of sub-section (2) of section 11 of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 (15 of 1992) read with section 25 of the Depositories Act, 1996 (22 of 1996), the Board hereby makes the following Regulations to further amend certain regulations to the extent stated herein, namely:-
In the Ministry’s Notification No. 12/139/59-Ad.III B dated 5.11.1962 as last amended vide Notification No.1/2013 –Customs (N.T.) issued vide F.No. 394/136/2013Cus (AS) dated 14.01.2013, the following amendment is made:
Notification No. 27/2014-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (48) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government, having regard to the national interest, hereby notifies for the purposes of the said clause— (a) M/s Temad, 28th Km Karaj Makhsous Road, Iran, as the foreign company;
In continuation of the General Circular No.11/2014 dated 12.05.2014, approval of the Competent Authority is hereby conveyed to extend continuity of all reserved names as on 31st March, 2014 for another fifteen days period from the date of issue of this circular.
This circular is issued in exercise of the powers conferred under Section 11 (1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, read with the provision of Regulation 77 of SEBI (Mutual Funds) Regulations, 1996 to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market.
Attention of Ministry has been drawn to difficulties being faced by Foreign Nationals while filing Incorporation form (INC-7) due to mandatory requirement of submission of PAN details of intending Directors at the time of filing the application for incorporation.
The provisions of this Circular are applicable for all those stock exchanges which have not achieved the prescribed turnover of Rs. 1000 Crore on continuous basis on or before May 30, 2014.
