Lending to counterparties who are related or connected to the lenders either through ownership stake in the lending entity or through their ability to control and influence the lending decisions entail conflict of interest or moral hazard issues for the lenders. The draft Directions being issued provide a harmonised, principle-based framework to be adopted by REs for managing such risks, suitably rationalising the existing provisions.

Additional comments or any attachments may also be submitted by email at feedbackcrg@rbi.org.in.

Last date for submission of comments is October 31, 2025.

Lending to counterparties who are related or connected to the lenders either through ownership stake in the lending entity or through their ability to control and influence the lending decisions entail conflict of interest or moral hazard issues for the lenders. The draft Directions being issued provide a harmonised, principle-based framework to be adopted by REs for managing such risks, suitably rationalising the existing provisions.

Additional comments or any attachments may also be submitted by email at feedbackcrg@rbi.org.in.

Last date for submission of comments is October 31, 2025.

Lending to counterparties who are related or connected to the lenders either through ownership stake in the lending entity or through their ability to control and influence the lending decisions entail conflict of interest or moral hazard issues for the lenders. The draft Directions being issued provide a harmonised, principle-based framework to be adopted by REs for managing such risks, suitably rationalising the existing provisions.

Additional comments or any attachments may also be submitted by email at feedbackcrg@rbi.org.in.

Last date for submission of comments is October 31, 2025.

Lending to counterparties who are related or connected to the lenders either through ownership stake in the lending entity or through their ability to control and influence the lending decisions entail conflict of interest or moral hazard issues for the lenders. The draft Directions being issued provide a harmonised, principle-based framework to be adopted by REs for managing such risks, suitably rationalising the existing provisions.

Additional comments or any attachments may also be submitted by email at feedbackcrg@rbi.org.in.

Last date for submission of comments is October 31, 2025.

The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website a draft circular on Guidelines to facilitate faster cross-border inward payments. Comments / feedback on the draft Circular are invited from banks by November 19, 2025. Additional comments or any attachments may also be submitted by email with subject line “Feedback on Draft circular on Guidelines to facilitate faster cross-border inward payments”.

Background and objective

2. The Reserve Bank’s Payments Vision 2025 aims to bring efficiency in the cross-border payments aligning with the G20 roadmap for cross-border payments that has set targets for achieving cheaper, faster, transparent, and accessible cross-border payments. One of the challenges with speed of cross-border payments is the delay between receipt of the payment at the beneficiary bank and credit to the beneficiary account. This draft circular aims to address some of the frictions for facilitating timely intimation of payment information and credit to the beneficiary’s account.

The Reserve Bank, vide Master Direction - Reserve Bank of India (Internal Ombudsman for Regulated Entities) Directions, 2023 dated December 29, 2023, has institutionalized the Internal Ombudsman mechanism in various regulated entities (REs) for independent review of customer complaints that are being rejected. A holistic review of the existing instructions has been undertaken to further strengthen the functioning of the Internal Ombudsman with a view to facilitating faster and meaningful resolution of customer grievances at the level of the REs.

The Reserve Bank has released the draft Master Direction - Reserve Bank of India (Internal Ombudsman for Regulated Entities) Directions, 2025.

The comments on the draft Directions are invited from the public/ stakeholders till October 28, 2025.

Additional comments or any attachments may also be submitted by email at  iocepd@rbi.org.in