The Reserve Bank of India is expanding reporting requirements for foreign exchange transactions. Starting February 10, 2025, authorized dealers must report all spot deals, including Cash and TOM transactions, to the Clearing Corporation of India’s trade repository. “To ensure completeness of transaction data in TR for all foreign exchange instruments, it has been decided to…
Updated as per RBI circular dated April 6, 2023 The Foreign Exchange Management (Overseas Investment, or OI) Rules, notified by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 22 August 2022, supersedes the erstwhile provisions governing the acquisition of immovable property overseas by a resident individual. According to section 6(4) of the FEMA, a person resident…
CRA 2010 is an Act to consolidate the law to regulate the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contributions or foreign hospitality by certain individuals or associations or companies and prohibit acceptance and utilisation of foreign contributions or foreign hospitality for any activities determinantal to the national interest and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. This…
Besides investment in Bank deposits, NRIs and PIOs can invest in various financial instruments in India with earnings being repatriable. These investments include stocks through portfolio investment scheme accounts, government securities, public sector undertaking Bonds, the National Pension Systems, or units issued by Infrastructure Debt Funds. Repatriation of all the foreign source investments and accrued…
NRIs can purchase immovable property in India, except for agricultural land, plantation property, and farmhouses. They can pay for the property using funds from inward remittances, debiting their NRE, FCNR(B), or NRO accounts, but not with traveler’s checks or foreign currency notes. NRIs can also acquire immovable property through gifts from Indian residents, NRIs, or…
RBI Master direction on ECB updated as of Sept. 30, 2022, FED Master Direction No. 5/2018-19 specifies that AD that Category I banks are permitted to allow the creation/cancellation of charges on immovable assets, movable assets, financial securities, and the issue of corporate and/or personal guarantees in favour of overseas lender/security trustee, to secure the…
In terms of section 6(4) of FEMA, 1999 a person resident in India may hold, own, transfer, or invest in foreign currency, foreign security, or any immovable property situated outside India if such currency, security, or property was acquired, held or owned by such person when he was resident outside India or inherited from a…
Any person resident outside India can open an SNRR account with authorised dealer bank in India having a business interest in India. This account is required to carry out bonafide transactions in rupees which conform with the provisions of the FEMA Act, rules, and regulations made thereunder. However, the Opening of SNRR accounts by Pakistan…
Nepal Remittance Scheme (INRF Scheme) was launched by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in May 2008 to provide a safe and cost-efficient avenue for migrant Nepalese workers in India to remit money back to their families in Nepal. In August 2021, the Scheme was improved to boost the trade payments between the two countries,…
The government of India enacted the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 (FERA) to tackle the foreign exchange crisis in the country. The purpose of FERA was to regulate foreign exchange dealings and other related activities to conserve the country’s foreign exchange reserves. The stringent FERA rules were not amenable to integrating the Indian economy into…