RBI/2016-17/184 DPSS.CO.PD.No.1515/02.14.003/2016-17 December 16, 2016 The Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officers All Scheduled Commercial Banks including RRBs / Urban Co-operative Banks / State Co-operative Banks / District Central Co-operative Banks / Payments Banks and Small Finance Banks / All Card Network Providers Dear Madam / Sir, Special measures upto March 31, 2017: Rationalisation of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) for transactions upto ₹ 200

RBI/2016-17/183 DBR.AML.BC.48/14.01.01/2016-17 December 15, 2016 All Regulated Entities Dear Sir/Madam, Compliance to provisions of Master Direction on Know Your Customer (KYC) A reference may be made to the following provisions of the Master Direction on Know Your Customer (KYC): (i) Section 8(d) and (e), wherein it is mentioned that concurrent/internal audit system of the Regulated Entities (REs) has to verify the compliance with KYC/AML policies and procedures and

RBI/2016-17/182 IDMD.PDRD.No.08/03.64.00/2016-17 December 13, 2016 To All Standalone Primary Dealers Dear Sir/Madam, Distribution of Relief/Savings Bonds A reference is invited to Para A.1 of the Master Direction on Relief/Savings Bonds dated July 1, 2016 under which agency banks can enrol/register brokers for distribution of Relief/Savings bonds. A reference is also invited to the Para 12 of (Master Direction) Standalone Primary Dealers (Reserve Bank) Directions, 201

RBI/2016-17/181 DCM (Plg) No. 1712/10.27.00/2016-17 December 13, 2016 The Chairman & Managing DirectorChief Executive OfficersAll Banks Dear Sir, Preservation of CCTV recordings Please refer to paragraph (5) of our circular DCM (FNVD) No.1134/16.01.05/2016-17 dated October 27, 2016 wherein it was stated that in order to facilitate identification of people abetting circulation of counterfeit notes, banks are advised to cover the banking hall/area and counters under

RBI/2016-17/180DCM (Plg) No. 1683/10.27.00/2016-17 December 12, 2016 The Chairman / Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer(All banks maintaining currency chests) Dear Sir, Distribution of Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series Banknotes – Records Please refer to our circular DCM (RMMT) No. G-5/11.01.01/2016-17 dated July 15, 2016 on Receipt and Remittance of Treasure. 2. In the wake of reported seizures by Income Tax Department and other law enforcement agencies of large qua

RBI/2016-17/179 DCM (Plg) No. 1679/10.27.00/2016-17 December 12, 2016 The Chairman / Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer,Public Sector Banks/ Private Sector Banks / Foreign Banks/ Regional RuralBanks / Urban Cooperative Banks/ State Cooperative Banks Dear Sir, Detection of counterfeit notes in Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) - Reporting Please refer our circulars DCM (Plg) No.1264/10.27.00/2016-17 and DCM (Plg) No.1291/10.27.00/2016-17 dated November 11, 2016 and N

RBI/2016-17/178 DPSS.CO.OSD.No.1485/06.08.005/2016-17 December 09, 2016 All Prepaid Payment Instrument Issuers, System Providers, System Participants and all other Prospective Prepaid Payment Instrument Issuers Dear Sir, Security and Risk Mitigation measure - Technical Audit of Prepaid Payment Instrument issuers With the withdrawal of legal tender characteristics of existing ₹ 500/- and ₹ 1000/- Bank Notes (Specified Bank Notes – SBN), the use of alternate modes of pa

RBI/2016-17/177 DBR.AML.BC.47/14.01.01/2016-17 December 8, 2016 All Regulated Entities Dear Sir/Madam, Amendment to Master Direction on Know Your Customer In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, it has been decided to make certain amendments to the Master Direction on Know Your Customer (KYC). The two major changes being notified are as under: It has been decided to allow One Time Pin (OTP) based e-KYC subject to cert

RBI/2016-17/176 DBR.AML.BC. No. 18/14.01.001/2016-17 December 8, 2016 All Regulated Entities (REs) Dear Sir/Madam, Amendment to Master Direction (MD) on KYC In exercise of the powers conferred under Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and section 35A read with section 56 of that Act, Rule 9 (14) of the Prevention of Money Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005 and all other laws enabling the Reserve Bank in this behalf, the Reserve Bank makes the

RBI/2016-17/175 A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.21 December 08, 2016 Madam / Sir, Exim Bank's GoI supported Line of Credit of USD 35.00 million to the Government of the Republic of Guinea Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has entered into an Agreement dated September 9, 2015 with the Government of the Republic of Guinea for making available to the latter, a Government of India supported Line of Credit (LOC) of USD 35.00 million (USD Thirty Five million) for constr