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The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website a draft circular on Guidelines to facilitate faster cross-border inward payments. Comments / feedback on the draft Circular are invited from banks by November 19, 2025. Additional comments or any attachments may also be submitted by email with subject line “Feedback on Draft circular on Guidelines to facilitate faster cross-border inward payments”.

Infrastructure projects that have commenced operations typically exhibit lower risk compared to those under construction. Recognizing this risk differential, the existing capital adequacy norms permit NBFCs to assign a lower risk weight to operational projects under Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). With a view to further rationalise the risk weights for infrastructure lending by NBFCs in line with the nuanced risk-profile of operational projects, it has been decided to introduce a principle-based framework. The framework aims to align risk weights with the actual risk characteristics of operational infrastructure projects, promoting better risk assessment and capital allocation.

Capital market exposures (CME) of the regulated entities (REs) which include, inter alia, lending against securities to individuals and lending to capital market intermediaries, have been subject to prudential regulations relating to sectoral exposure limits, single borrower limits, margin requirements, etc. Further, bank finance for acquisition of shares has been generally disallowed. There has been significant growth and development in the capital market structure, along with strengthening of the banking system in recent years. With the objective of rationalising the extant guidelines and broadening the scope for capital market lending by banks, it is proposed to inter alia

Capital market exposures (CME) of the regulated entities (REs) which include, inter alia, lending against securities to individuals and lending to capital market intermediaries, have been subject to prudential regulations relating to sectoral exposure limits, single borrower limits, margin requirements, etc. Further, bank finance for acquisition of shares has been generally disallowed.

With a view to consolidate the existing regulatory instructions on the topic on an ‘as-is’ basis, the draft of Reserve Bank of India (Credit Information Companies – Managing Risks in Outsourcing) Directions 2025 has been issued for public comments. 

With a view to consolidate the existing regulatory instructions on the topic on an ‘as-is’ basis, the draft of Reserve Bank of India (Credit Information Companies) Directions 2025 has been issued for public comments. 

With a view to consolidate the existing regulatory instructions on the topic on an ‘as-is’ basis, the draft of Reserve Bank of India (Asset Reconstruction Companies – Know Your Customer) Directions 2025 has been issued for public comments. 

With a view to consolidate the existing regulatory instructions on the topic on an ‘as-is’ basis, the draft of Reserve Bank of India (Asset Reconstruction Companies – Treatment of Wilful Defaulters and Large Defaulters) Directions 2025 has been issued for public comments. 

With a view to consolidate the existing regulatory instructions on the topic on an ‘as-is’ basis, the draft of Reserve Bank of India (Asset Reconstruction Companies – Credit Information Reporting) Directions 2025 has been issued for public comments. 

With a view to consolidate the existing regulatory instructions on the topic on an ‘as-is’ basis, the draft of Reserve Bank of India (Asset Reconstruction Companies) Directions 2025 has been issued for public comments.