Draft Regulations Notification No. FEMA. _____ /2017-RB Dated: April__, 2017 Foreign Exchange Management (Cross Border Merger) Regulations, 2017 In exercise of the powers conferred by section 47 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999), the Reserve Bank makes the following regulations relating to merger, demerger, amalgamation and arrangement between Indian companies and foreign companies: 1. Short title and commencement These regulations may be calle

Participants: Resident entities with foreign currency exposures and non-resident entities with Rupee exposures, other than individuals, arising out of transactions permitted under Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, of up to USD 30 million or equivalent. Purpose: To hedge underlying exchange rate risk. Products: Any Over the Counter (OTC) derivatives and Exchange Traded Currency Derivatives (ETCD) permitted under FEMA, 1999, except cost reduction structures and swa

RESERVE BANK OF INDIA FINANCIAL MARKETS REGULATION DEPARTMENT 1st FLOOR, CENTRAL OFFICE, FORT MUMBAI 400 001 FMRD.DIRD./CGM(TRS) - 2017 dated April 11, 2017 Draft Tri-Party Repo (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2017 The Reserve Bank of India having considered it necessary in public interest and to regulate the financial system of the country to its advantage, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 45W of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 and of all the powers enab

RBI/DPSS/2016-17/ DPSS.CO.PD. No. /02.14.006/2016-17 March 20, 2017 All Prepaid Payment Instrument Issuers, System Providers, System Participants and all prospective Prepaid Payment Instrument Issuers (Draft Master Directions for Comments) Dear Sir/ Madam, Master Directions on Issuance and Operation of Prepaid Payment Instruments in India As you are aware, the Reserve Bank of India has, from time to time, issued a number of circulars containing policy guidelines on Is

DPSS.CO.PD.No. /02.14.003/2016-17 February 16, 2017 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, Draft Circular - Rationalisation of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) for Debit Card Transactions Recent developments, including the comm

DRAFT DIRECTIONS RESERVE BANK OF INDIA FINANCIAL MARKETS REGULATION DEPARTMENT 1st FLOOR, CENTRAL OFFICE FORT MUMBAI 400 001 FMRD.DIRD./CGM(TRS) - 2017 dated February 2, 2017 Reserve Bank Commercial Paper Directions, 2017 Whereas the Reserve Bank of India, in exercise of the powers conferred by Sections 45J, 45K, 45L of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, and of all the powers enabling it in this behalf, notified the Non-Banking Companies (Acceptance of Deposits thro

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