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Biennial survey on Foreign Collaboration in Indian Industry (FCS)
Some important definitions and concepts
Ans.: An Indian company is called as a Foreign Subsidiary if a non-resident investor owns more than 50 per cent of the voting power / equity capital or where a non-resident investor and its subsidiary(s) combined own more than 50 per of the voting power / equity capital of an Indian enterprise.
Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey – India
What to report under CPIS?
Ans: Reporting entities should report the data in the unit mentioned in the survey schedule (for eg., INR Lakh).
Housing Loans
When other banks reduce the interest rate, you may prefer to close your account with the bank with whom you are banking, to avail of the loan from the bank offering reduced rates of interest. You have to pay pre-payment charges for doing so. In order to ensure that their customers do not approach other banks for availing reduced interest rates, banks allow customers to switch over from a higher interest loan to a lower interest loan by paying a switch over fees which is lesser than the pre-payment charges. Generally switchover fee is taken as percentage of the outstanding loan amount.
Keep up-dating yourself on various changes in the home loan market. Visit the branch, discuss with the officials to get the best out of any changes in the home loan scenario.
Targeted Long Term Repo Operations (TLTROs)
FAQs pertaining to TLTRO 2.0
Ans: The funds availed under TLTRO 2.0 are to be deployed in investment grade bonds, commercial paper (CPs) and non-convertible debentures (NCDs) of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and MFIs in the manner outlined in the press release dated April 17, 2020.
FAQs on Non-Banking Financial Companies
Ceiling on deposits
A. As per the new Regulatory framework, there is no overall ceiling on the borrowings of NBFCs. However, limits have been prescribed for acceptance of Public Deposits as indicated here.
Level of credit rating | Ceiling on public deposits | |
EL/HP Cos. | LC/ICs | |
AAA | 4.0 | 2.0 |
AA | 2.5 | 1.0 |
A | 1.5 | 0.5 |
A - (CRISIL & ICRA) } | ||
BBB (CARE) } | 0.5 | Nil |
BBB- (DCR India) } |
It is to be noted that there is an in-built ceiling on the total borrowings of the NBFCs accepting deposits from public, because they are required to maintain a capital adequacy ratio of 10 per cent of their risk weighted assets effective from 31.3.1998 and 12 per cent from 31.3.1999. Their capacity to create assets and raise corresponding borrowings will be restricted because of capital adequacy norms.
Domestic Deposits
I. Domestic Deposits
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In the case of term deposit standing in the name/s of a deceased individual depositor, or two or more joint depositors, where one of the depositor has died, the criterion for payment of interest on matured deposits in the event of death of the depositor in the above cases has been left to the discretion of individual banks subject to their Board laying down a transparent policy in this regard.
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In the case of balances lying in current account standing in the name of a deceased individual depositor/ sole proprietorship concern, interest should be paid only from May 1, 1983 or from the date of death of the depositor, whichever is later, till the date of repayment to the claimant/s at the rate of interest applicable to savings deposit as on the date of payment. However, in the case of NRE deposit, if the claimants are residents, the deposit on maturity is treated as domestic rupee and interest is paid for the subsequent period at a rate applicable to the domestic deposit of similar maturity.
Remittances (Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) and Rupee Drawing Arrangement (RDA))
Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS)
Annual Return on Foreign Liabilities and Assets (FLA) under FEMA 1999
Eligible entities and requirements to submit the FLA return
Ans: If all non-resident shareholders of an entity have transferred their shares to the residents during the reporting period and the entity does not have any outstanding investment in respect of inward and outward FDI as on end-March of the latest FY, then the entity need not submit the FLA return.
Retail Direct Scheme
Know Your Customer (KYC) related queries
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Enter your PAN card number and date of birth to retrieve details available in CKYC.
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Provide address details, scanned copy of your signature, bank account details and nominee details.
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Authenticate the user agreement form using Aadhaar by submitting the OTP sent on your mobile number linked to Aadhaar.