RBI/2016-17/ DBR.No.BP.BC…/21.07.005/2016-17 February 2, 2017 The Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Excluding Regional Rural Banks) Madam / Dear Sir, Draft Guidelines on governance, measurement and management of Interest Rate Risk in Banking Book Please refer to the paragraph 5 of the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies, by RBI, dated October 4, 2016. It was indicated therein that RBI would issue draft guideli

1. Purpose To provide greater flexibility for hedging the currency risk arising out of current account transactions of Indian subsidiaries of Multi-National Companies (MNCs) by the parent or any non-resident group entity. 2. Users Non-resident parent or its centralised treasury or any other related entity hedging on behalf of the Indian subsidiary. 3. Products All FCY-INR derivatives, OTC as well exchange traded that the Indian subsidiary is eligible to undertake. 4.

1. Introduction 1.1 A bank’s exposures to its counterparties may result in concentration of its assets to a single counterparty or a group of connected counterparties. As a first step to address the concentration risk, the Reserve Bank, in March 1989, fixed limits on bank exposures to an individual business concern and to business concerns of a group.RBI’s prudential exposure norms have evolved since then and a bank’s exposure to a single borrower and a borrower group

Draft Circular (for public comments) RBI/2016-17/ DBR.No.Leg.BC. /09.07.005/2016-17 August 11, 2016 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including RRBs) All Co-operative Banks Dear Sir/Madam, Customer Protection – Limiting Liability of Customers in Unauthorised Electronic Banking Transactions Please refer to our circular DBOD.Leg.BC.86/09.07.007/2001-02 dated April 8, 2002 regarding reversal of erroneous debits arising from fraudulent and other transactions. 2. With the in

Preamble The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had issued guidelines for licensing of new banks in the private sector on February 22, 2013. Reserve Bank issued in-principle approval to two applicants and they have since established the banks as per the licences. Recognising the need for having an explicit policy on banking structure in India in line with the recommendations of the Narasimham Committee, Raghuram G. Rajan Committee, and other viewpoints, the Reserve Bank came

During the year 2015-16, all the 25 PSBs have exercised managerial autonomy in regard to selection and appointment of SBAs. The names of audit firms recommended by these 25 banks and approved by RBI are displayed on the web-site. While approving names of audit firms, banks were advised not to allot more than three branches per audit firm and that they should allot branches, to the extent possible, to the audit firms taking into consideration their category and audit e

RBI/2015-16/ DBR.No.BP.BC./21.06.201/2015-16 June 22, 2016 The Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Excluding Regional Rural Banks) Madam / Dear Sir, Draft Guidelines for computing exposure for counterparty credit risk arising from derivative transactions Please refer to the paragraph 27 of the first bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2016-17. It was indicated therein that RBI will issue draft guidelines on Standardised A

Draft Circular RBI/2015-16/…. A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. … ..…, 2016 To, All Category – I Authorised Dealer banks Madam / Sir, Investment by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) in Corporate Debt Securities Attention of Authorised Dealers Category – I (AD Category - I) banks is invited to paragraph 1 of Schedule 5 to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 notified vide Notification No. FEMA

In March 2015, RBI issued a Discussion Paper titled “Large Exposures Framework and Enhancing Credit Supply through Market Mechanism” for stakeholders’ comments. Apart from introducing the contours of ‘Large Exposures Standards’ for banks in India, the Discussion Paper also focused on the need to encourage sources of funding other than bank credit for the corporate sector to finance growth. Specifically, the paper proposed ways to encourage large corporates with borrow

Preamble The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had issued guidelines for licensing of new banks in the private sector on February 22, 2013. Reserve Bank issued in-principle approval to two applicants and they have since established the banks as per the licences. Recognising the need for having an explicit policy on banking structure in India in line with the recommendations of the Narasimham Committee, Raghuram G. Rajan Committee and other viewpoints, the Reserve Bank came