DBOD.No.BP. /21.06.001/2011-12 August 10, 2011 The Chairmen and Managing Directors / Chief Executive Officers of All Commercial Banks (excluding Regional Rural Banks and Local Area Banks) Dear Sir/Madam, Implementation of the Internal Rating Based Approaches (IRB) for Calculation of Capital Charge for Credit Risk - Draft Guidelines Please refer to our circular DBOD.BP.BC.23/21.06.001/2009-10 dated July 7, 2009, inter alia, advising banks that they can apply for migrat

RBI/2011--12 DBOD.FSD.BC. / /2011-12 July 6, 2011 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) Dear Sir, Section 19 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949- Equity Investments in subsidiaries and other companies– Draft Guidelines Please refer to the instructions contained in paragraphs 2 and 3 of our Master Circular DBOD. No. FSD.BC.15/24.01.001/2011-12 dated July 1, 2011 on Para-Banking Activities which deal with the guidelines for setting up of subsidiaries by banks

Introduction The system of PDs in the Government Securities (G-Sec) market was introduced in 1995 to strengthen the infrastructure in the G-Sec market, improve secondary market trading system, which would contribute to price discovery, enhance liquidity and turnover and encourage voluntary holding of G-Sec amongst a wider investor base and make PDs an effective conduit for conducting open market operations (OMO). The current guidelines to authorise PDs in the Indian G

Introduction As a part of financial sector reforms, the Reserve Bank has deregulated interest rates on deposits, other than savings bank deposits. The interest rate on savings bank deposits has remained unchanged at 3.5 per cent per annum since March 1, 2003. Keeping in view progressive deregulation of interest rates, it was proposed in the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy 2010-11 announced on November 2, 2010 to prepare a Discussion Paper to delineate the pro

1. Objective The objective of introducing Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on corporate bonds is to provide market participants a tool to transfer and manage credit risk in an effective manner through redistribution of risk. CDS as a risk management product offers the participants the ability to hive off credit risk and also to assume credit risk which otherwise may not be possible. Since CDS have benefits like enhancing investment and borrowing opportunities and reducing t

1. Introduction 1.1 In 2005, the Reserve Bank released the “Road map for presence of foreign banks in India” laying out a two track and gradualist approach aimed at increasing the efficiency and stability of the banking sector in India. One track was the consolidation of the domestic banking system, both in private and public sectors, and the second track was the gradual enhancement of foreign banks in a synchronised manner. The Road map was divided into two phases, t

DBOD.No.BP.BC. /21.06.014/2010-11 January 6, 2011 The Chairmen and Managing Directors / Chief Executive Officers of All Commercial Banks (excluding Regional Rural Banks and Local Area Banks) Dear Sir, Implementation of the Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) for Calculation of Capital Charge for Operational Risk - Draft Guidelines Please refer to our circular DBOD.BP.BC.23/21.06.001/2009-10 dated July 7, 2009, inter alia advising banks that they can apply for migratin

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Union Finance Minister, in his budget speech for the year 2010-11 had announced that ‘The Indian banking system has emerged unscathed from the crisis. We need to ensure that the banking system grows in size and sophistication to meet the needs of a modern economy. Besides, there is a need to extend the geographic coverage of banks and improve access to banking services. In this context, I am happy to inform the Honourable Members that the RBI i

Introduction 1. The purpose of this paper is to seek the views / comments of banks, non-banking financial institutions, ‘for-profit’ companies, regulators, academicians, NGOs and the public at large on the discussion on whether there is a case for allowing banks to engage ‘for-profit’ companies as well as NBFCs as their Business Correspondents for expanding their banking outreach. Business Correspondent model 2. The Reserve Bank of India has taken several initiatives

DBOD No.BC. /29.67.001/2010-11 July 1, 2010 To All banks in Private Sector and Local Area Banks and all Foreign Banks operating in India Dear Sir/ Madam, Guidelines on Compensation of Whole Time Directors/Chief Executive Officers/Risk takers and Control function staff Flawed incentive compensation practices in the financial sector were one of the important factors contributing to the recent global financial crisis. Employees were too often rewarded for increasing the

Detailed Guidelines on Securitisation of Standard Assets were issued to NBFCs vide Circular DBOD.NO.BP.BC.60/21.04.048/2005-06 dated February 01, 2006. 2. In order to prevent unhealthy practices from developing and in order to align the interest of the originator with that of the investors, it has been considered necessary that originators should retain a portion of each securitization originated, as a mechanism to better align incentives and ensure more effective scr

DNBS (PD) CC.No. /03.10.001/2009-10 April 21, 2010 Proposed Regulatory Framework for Systemically Important Non Deposit Accepting Core Investment Companies(CICs-ND-SI) Core Investment Companies (CICs) were not considered as carrying on the business of acquisition of shares and securities in the following circumstances, namely, not less than 90% of their assets were in investments in shares for the purpose of holding stake in the investee companies; they were not tradi

RBI/2009-10/ DBOD.No.BP.BC. / /2009-10 April 19, 2010 The Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officers All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Excluding RRBs and Local Area Banks) Dear Sir, Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy for the Year 2009-10 – Securitisation Transactions- Draft Guidelines Please refer to paragraph 161 of the Second Quarter Review of the Monetary Policy for the year 2009-10 announced on October 27, 2009 (copy of the paragraph enclosed),

DBOD.BP.BC. 14054/21.06.001/2009-10 February 11, 2010 The Chairman and Managing Directors/ Chief Executive Officers of All Commercial Banks Dear Sir Implementation of The Standardised Approach (TSA) for Calculation of Capital Charge for Operational Risk- Draft Guidelines Please refer to our circular DBOD BP. BC. 23/21.06.001/2009-10 dated July 7, 2009, inter alia advising banks that they can apply for migrating to The Standardised Approach and Alternative Standardised

Draft Circular RBI/2009-10/ Ref.No.MPD.BC. /10.14.01/2009-10 February , 2010 Magha , 1931(S) To All Scheduled Commercial Banks Guidelines on the Base Rate Following the announcement in the Annual Policy Statement for the year 2009-10, the Reserve Bank constituted a Working Group on Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (Chairman: Shri Deepak Mohanty) to review the present benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR) system and suggest changes to make credit pricing more transparent. Th

Discussion paper on Regulation of Off-Balance Sheet Activities of Banks

1. Introduction These parameters provide the minimum standards for cash handling machines used by banks (hereinafter called ‘the machines’). Notes can only be recycled/reissued if they are evaluated as genuine and fit according to these parameters. Authenticity check is a prerequisite for fitness sorting. Fitness sorting can be done only in case of genuine notes. The machines shall be able to identify and separate suspected counterfeits and notes which are unfit for c

ANNEX I Comprehensive Guidelines on Foreign Exchange Derivatives and Hedging Commodity Price Risk and Freight Risk Overseas Given below is a description of the categories of persons who are permitted to access the OTC foreign exchange market in India for managing exchange rate risks as also the menu of permitted products that can be used for hedging different categories of exchange rate exposures. Additionally, the facilities for residents to hedge commodity price ris

Annex Draft guidelines for issuance of Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) of maturity less than one year 1. Definition For the purpose of these guidelines, Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) will mean secured, negotiable money market instruments with original maturity of less than one year issued by corporates (including NBFCs) to meet their short term funding requirements, issued by way of private placement with investors. The guidelines also cover NCDs with original m

The Mid-Term Review of the Annual Policy for the year 2007-08 had indicated that the Reserve Bank will permit market repo in corporate bonds once the corporate debt market develops and the Reserve Bank is assured of the availability of fair prices, and an efficient and safe settlement system based on delivery versus payment (DvP) III and Straight Through Processing (STP) is in place. In pursuance thereof, as indicated in the Annual Policy Statement for the year 2009-1