Banks in India may grant loans against the security of shares, debentures, and bonds — but only within the limits and conditions prescribed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). These guidelines are contained in the Master Circular on Loans and Advances — Statutory and Other Restrictions and were significantly Read more…
Reserve Bank of India on September 1, 2016 issued notification and letter to Credit Information Companies (CIC) to provide one free Credit Information Report (CIR) in a year (January to December). CIBIL (Credit Information Bureau of India Limited) is the leading CIC and most of the banks/ FIs use CIBIL to draw CIRs Read more…
Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme, 2016; and Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2016 – Series II were announced by the Government of India vide notifications dated January 14, 2016 and March 04, 2016, respectively. In terms of Para 17 of the Scheme, it is notified that the Sovereign Gold Bonds (issued on Read more…
The Reserve Bank of India today issued Master Directions on six subjects relating to Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) under its regulation. These directions consolidate/reorganise instructions issued in various Circulars/Directions/ Notifications/Master Circulars. The six Master Directions replace instructions contained in existing Master Circulars. The subjects on which Master Directions have been Read more…
The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website the Draft Large Exposures (LE) Framework for comments. The salient features of the proposed Large Exposures (LE) Framework include: The Large Exposure (LE) limit in respect of each counterparty and group of connected counterparties, under normal circumstances, will be capped Read more…
“Initiating quick follow up and taking cases to logical conclusion by punishing the guilty is paramount to deter entities in future from carrying out unlawful activity. I hope ‘Sachet’ would help regulators in doing this as much as it would help members of public in depositing their hard earned money Read more…
Reserve Bank of India has directed banks that bank employees working in specialised areas like treasury, risk management, preparation of financial results, audit, credit appraisal, credit rating , monitoring, credit administration and accounting are required to be specially trained and go through certification programmes, Bank staff working in specialized areas need to Read more…
The Reserve Bank of India has today placed on its website the Draft Circular on “Customer Protection – Limiting Liability of Customers in Unauthorised Electronic Banking Transactions”, for feedback. Suggestions/comments, if any, on the Draft Circular may be sent by post to the Chief General Manager, Department of Banking Regulation, Reserve Bank Read more…
RBI/2016-17/33 DBR.No.Leg.BC.3/09.07.005/2016-17 August 04, 2016 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Including RRBs) Dear Sir/ Madam, Dishonour of cheques – Modification in procedure Please refer to our circular DBOD.BC.Leg.No.113/09.12.001/2002-03 dated June 26, 2003 and paragraph 11.4 (i) of RPCD.CO.RRB.BC.No.100/03.05.33/2013-14 dated May 12, 2014 wherein banks were advised to introduce a condition for Read more…
RBI/2015-16/428 DBR.BP.BC.No.105/21.06.001/2015-16 June 23, 2016 All Commercial Banks (Excluding Local Area Banks and Regional Rural Banks) Dear Sir, Reporting Requirements under Basel III Capital Regulations- Review Please refer to the Annexures 3 and 4 of the Master Circular DBR.No.BP.BC.1/21.06.201/2015-16 dated July 1, 2015 on Basel III Capital Regulations in terms Read more…