March 20, 2007DBOD.No.BP. 1151/21.06.001/2006-07 The Chairman / Chief Executive Officer,All Commercial Banks(excluding LABs & RRBs)</P> Dear Sir,Prudential Guidelines on Capital Adequacy and Market Discipline –Implementation of the New Capital Adequacy FrameworkPlease refer to our letter DBOD.No.BP.1163/ 21.04.118/ 2005-06 dated February 15, 2005 forwarding the draft guidelines for implementation of the New Capital Adequacy Framework and inviting feedback fr

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1. Definition of a Derivative A derivative is a financial instrument: (a) whose value changes in response to the change in a specified interest rate, security price, commodity price, foreign exchange rate, index of prices or rates, a credit rating or credit index, or similar variable (sometimes called the 'underlying'); (b) that requires no initial net investment or little initial net investment relative to other types of contracts that have a similar response to chan

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6th December 2005 Draft Guidelines on Outsourcing of Financial Services by banks The world over, banks are increasingly using outsourcing, to third parties who may be unrelated or member of the group/conglomerate as a means of both reducing cost and accessing specialist expertise, not available internally and achieving strategic aims. Outsourcing brings in its wake, several risks like Strategic Risk, Reputation Risk, Compliance Risk, Operational Risk, Exit Strategy Ri