Foreign Portfolio Investor - investment under Portfolio Investment Scheme, Government and Corporate debt - ଆରବିଆଇ - Reserve Bank of India
Foreign Portfolio Investor - investment under Portfolio Investment Scheme, Government and Corporate debt
RBI/2013-14/533 March 25, 2014 To All Category – I Authorised Dealer Banks Madam / Sir, Foreign Portfolio Investor - investment under Portfolio Investment Scheme, Government and Corporate debt Attention of Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) Regulations, 2000 (the Principal Regulations) notified by the Reserve Bank vide Notification No. FEMA. 20/2000-RB dated 3rd May 2000, as amended from time to time. 2. The extant guidelines for Portfolio Investment Scheme for Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) and Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI) have since been reviewed and it has been decided to put in place a framework for investments under a new scheme called ‘Foreign Portfolio Investment’ scheme. 3. The salient features of the new scheme are:
4. Any foreign institutional investor who holds a valid certificate of registration from SEBI shall be deemed to be a registered foreign portfolio investor (RFPI) till the expiry of the block of three years for which fees have been paid as per the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Foreign Institutional Investors) Regulations, 1995. A QFI may continue to buy, sell or otherwise deal in securities subject to the SEBI (FPI) Regulations, 2014 for a period of one year from the date of commencement of these regulations, or until he obtains a certificate of registration as foreign portfolio investor, whichever is earlier. However, all investments made by that FII/QFI in accordance with the regulations prior to registration as RFPI shall continue to be valid and taken into account for computation of aggregate limit. 5. RFPI shall report the transaction to RBI as being reported by FII in LEC Form as per extant practice. 6. AD Category - I banks may bring the contents of the circular to the notice of their customers/constituents concerned. 7. Reserve Bank has since amended the Principal Regulations through the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident outside India) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2014 notified vide Notification No. FEMA.297/2014-RB dated March 13, 2014, c.f. G.S.R. No. 189(E) dated March 19, 2014. 8. The directions contained in this circular have been issued under sections 10(4) and 11(1) of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (42 of 1999) and are without prejudice to permissions / approvals, if any, required under any other law. Yours faithfully (Rudra Narayan Kar) |