Overview: Operations of Letter of Credit – UCP 600 and Important Articles
We all know that in the international trade of goods and services transactions takes place between the people belonging to different continents, languages, culture, and laws. Since the language used for communication of terms and conditions of LC may suggest different meaning in different parts of the world, people across the world realised the need…
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Look up facility for RTGS and NEFT services from April 2025
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has mandated the implementation of a beneficiary account name verification system for fund transfers via Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) services by April 2025. Currently, payment systems such as the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) allow remitters to verify the…
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What is a Bankruptcy remote?
A bankruptcy remote entity is a special-purpose vehicle (“SPV”) that is formed to hold a defined group of assets and to protect them from being administered as property of a bankruptcy estate. The corporate documents of bankruptcy remote like memorandum association and article association may also attempt to create disablements to a bankruptcy filing. For…
Read article Understanding the proceedings against large Corporates under IBC
Following the ordinance empowering RBI to lay down the process of initiating steps under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), an Internal Advisory Committee (IAC) is set up by RBI to oversee the specific steps that are initiated by bankers for resolution of a bad debt. In its first meeting on June 12, 2017, the…
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Personal guarantors to corporate debtors comes under IBC regime
On Friday (15th November 2019), the Ministry of Corporate affairs notified “Application to Adjudicating Authority for Insolvency Resolution Process for Personal Guarantors to Corporate Debtors) Rules, 2019”. [WAS PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, PART II, SECTION 3, SUBSECTION (i)]. The new rule called in short as “Insolvency and Bankruptcy rule 2019” shall come into…
How Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) could benefit banks?
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016 is the bankruptcy law of India, amended as Insolvency and bankruptcy code (amendment) Bill 2017. The new law seeks to consolidate the existing framework by creating a single law for insolvency and bankruptcy. The mounting NPAs in the banking sector and other financial institutions have crippled lending activities…
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