This article distinguishes amongst foreign investment, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Portfolio investments, Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI), Foreign Institutional Investor (FII), etc. Foreign Investment: Any investment made by a person resident outside India on a repatriable basis in capital instruments of an Indian company or to the capital of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is known…
The four anchor banks PNB, Union Bank, Canara Bank, and Indian Bank approved mergers of the other 6 PSBs and issued share-swap ratios for the proposed mergers. The details of share-swapping are as under.PNB: 1150 share of PNB for every 1000 shares of OBC 121 shares of PNB for every 1000 shares of United Bank…
The Yes Bank Ltd. was placed under an order of moratorium on March 5, 2020 which will be effective up to April 3, 2020.In this regard, RBI published a draft scheme of reconstruction of the Yes Bank Ltd.in public domain inviting suggestions and comments from the public as well as all the stake holders of…
[This article elucidates the FEMA rules for the transfer of sale proceeds of immovable properties abroad and the documents required for the same.] Section 6(5) in the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 provides that “A person resident outside India may hold, own, transfer or invest in Indian currency, security or any immovable property situated in…
Today (29.02.2020) negotiations for 11th BPS started at 11.30 am at IBA Office Mumbai. Negotiations committee chairman first offers to start negotiations with an appeal to UFBU for withdrawal of three days strike call given by them. UFBU on their part clear their stand by reminding their 12points demand. After a lot of discussions, the…
Reserve bank of India advised all the scheduled commercial banks that with effect from April 1, 2020, Short Term Crop Loans should be extended only through KCC to be eligible for Interest Subvention Scheme (ISS) and Prompt Repayment Incentive (PRI). According to the notification, the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare vide their Office Memorandum,…
External benchmark rate means the reference rate which includes the policy Repo rate of RBI, Government of India’s 3-Months and 6-Months Treasury Bill yields published by Financial Benchmarks India Private Ltd (FBIL), and any other benchmark market interest rate published by FBIL. The interest rate on banks’ lending based on external benchmark shall be reset…
As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies of February 6, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India has decided to revise its liquidity management through which it controls cash in the banking system to rationalise interest rates in line with the policy actions. Instruments of liquidity management will include “fixed and variable rate…
RBI permits one-time restructuring of MSME advances till December 31, 2020 RBI on Tuesday (11.02.2020) allowed a one-time restructuring of existing loans extended to MSMEs by Banks and NBFCs and permitting them to classify such assets as ‘Standard’ without a downgrade in the asset classification if the following conditions are met. • The aggregate of…
In terms of Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies of February 6, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India announced that the special lending window with CRR exemption will be open from February 14 and incremental loans disbursed under this facility will have CRR exemption for the next five years. Accordingly, banks are allowed to deduct…
