RBI/2023-24/79
DoR.REG/LIC.No.55/07.01.000/2023-24

October 30, 2023

Chairman / Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer
All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks
All State Co-operative Banks and
All District Central Co-operative Banks

Madam / Dear Sir

Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act 2020 - Change in Name of Co-operative Banks

Pursuant to the notification of the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act (No. 39 of 2020), Sections 49B and 49C of Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (‘BR Act’) are applicable to Co-operative Banks. In terms of Section 49B, the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS)/Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS) shall not signify its approval to the change of name of any co-operative bank unless the Reserve Bank certifies in writing that it has no objection to such change. Further, in terms of Section 49C, no application for the confirmation of the alteration of bye-laws of a co-operative bank shall be maintainable unless Reserve Bank certifies that there is no objection to such alteration.

2. Accordingly, it has been decided to issue guidelines with regard to the procedure to be followed for any change in name by a Co-operative Bank as

RBI/2023-24/58
CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S-567/02-23-001/2023-2024

September 04, 2023

The Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer
Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding Payment Banks, Small Finance Banks and Regional Rural Banks)

Madam / Dear Sir,

Operation of Pre-Sanctioned Credit Lines at Banks through Unified Payments Interface (UPI)

RBI/2023-24/57
CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S526/02-14-003/2023-24 August 24, 2023 The Chairman / Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer
Authorised Payment System Operators and Participants (Banks and Non-banks)

RBI/2023-24/37 CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S-258/02-01-010/2023-24 June 7, 2023 The Trade Receivables Discounting System Platform Operators and Participants / National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) Madam / Dear Sir, Expanding the Scope of Trade Receivables Discounting System To ease constraints faced by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in converting their trade receivables to liquid funds, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had issued the ‘Guidelines for the Trade

RBI/2022-23/178 CO.DPSS.RPPD.No.S1931/04-03-001/2022-23 February 16, 2023 The Chairman / Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of member banks participating in NEFT and RTGS Systems Madam / Dear Sir, Introduction of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) related transaction code in NEFT and RTGS Systems Under the FCRA, 2010 (amended as on September 28, 2020), foreign contributions must be received only in the “FCRA account” of State Bank of India (SBI), Ne

RBI/2022-23/176 CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S–1907/02.14.006/2022-23 February 10, 2023 All Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) Issuers (Banks and Non-banks) and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) Madam / Dear Sir, Issuance of PPIs to Foreign Nationals / Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) visiting India As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated February 08, 2023, it has been decided to allow access to Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to foreign

RBI/2022-23/158 CO.DPSS.OVRST.No.S1619/06-08-005/2022-2023 December 26, 2022 The Chairman / Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer Banks, Non-bank Payment System Operators (PSOs) and Credit Card issuing Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) Madam / Dear Sir, Central Payments Fraud Information Registry – Migration of Reporting to DAKSH As announced in the Monetary Policy Statement 2019-20 on August 07, 2019, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had operationalised th

RBI/2022-2023/95 CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S-760/02-14-003/2022-23 July 28, 2022 All Payment System Providers and Payment System Participants Madam / Dear Sir, Restriction on Storage of Actual Card Data [i.e. Card-on-File (CoF)] Reference is invited to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circulars DPSS.CO.PD.No.1810/02.14.008/2019-20 dated March 17, 2020 and CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S33/02-14-008/2020-2021 dated March 31, 2021 on “Guidelines on Regulation of Payment Aggregators and Payment Gate

RBI/2022-23/94 CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S-761/02-14-008/2022-23 July 28, 2022 All Payment System Providers and Payment System Participants Madam / Dear Sir, Regulation of Payment Aggregators – Timeline for submission of applications for authorisation – Review Reference is invited to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circulars DPSS.CO.PD.No.1810/02.14.008/2019-20 dated March 17, 2020 and CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S33/02-14-008/2020-2021 dated March 31, 2021 on “Guidelines on Regulation of Paym

RBI/2022-23/80 CO.DPSS.POLC.No.S-590/02-14-006/2022-23 July 04, 2022 The Chairman / Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer Bank and Non-bank Payment System Operators (PSOs) Madam / Dear Sir, Requirement for obtaining prior approval in case of takeover / acquisition of control of non-bank PSOs and sale / transfer of payment system activity of non-bank PSO A reference is invited to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) instructions contained in paragraph 5.10 of Master Direc