Regulating Commercial Banking

RBI/2024-25/ 08 DOR.CAP.REC.4/21.06.201/2024-25 April 01, 2024 All Scheduled Commercial Banks(Excluding Small Finance Banks, Payments Banks and Regional Rural Banks) Madam / Dear Sir, Master Circular – Basel III Capital Regulations

RBI/2024-25/03 DOR. STR. REC. 2/13.07.010/2024-25 April 01, 2024 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding Payments Banks and RRBs) Dear Sir / Madam Master Circular - Guarantees and Co-acceptances Please refer to the Master Circular DOR. STR. REC.5/13.07.010/2023-24 dated April 1, 2023 consolidating the instructions / guidelines issued to banks till March 31, 2023, relating to Guarantees and Co-acceptances. Attached is the revised Master Circular, updated to reflect all instructions issued upto March 31, 2024 on the above matter, as listed in the Annex 2. It may be noted that this Master Circular only consolidates all instructions on the above matter issued up to March 31, 2024 and does not contain any new instructions/guidelines.

RBI/DOR/2023-24/140 DOR.STR.REC. 85/21.04.048/2023-24 March 27, 2024 All Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks, Local Area Banks and Regional Rural Banks) All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks/State Co-operative Banks/ Central Co-operative Banks All All-India Financial Institutions All Non-Banking Financial Companies (including Housing Finance Companies)

RBI/2023-24/137 DOR.SOG (LEG).REC/84/09.08.024/2023-24 March 20, 2024 All Agency Banks Madam / Dear Sir All Agency Banks to remain open for public on March 31, 2024 (Sunday) The Government of India has made a request to keep all branches of the banks dealing with Government receipts and payments open for transactions on March 31, 2024 (Sunday) so as to account for all the Government transactions relating to receipts and payments in the FY 2023-24 itself. Accordingly, Agency Banks are advised to keep all their branches dealing with government business open on March 31, 2024 (Sunday).

RBI/ 2023-24/128 DOR.MRG.REC.80/00-00-003/2022-23 February 28, 2024 All Commercial Banks (excluding Regional Rural Banks) Dear Sir / Madam, Capital Adequacy Guidelines – Review of Trading Book

RBI/2023-24/124 DOR.STR.REC.78/04.02.001/2023-24 February 22, 2024 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs),
Primary (Urban) Cooperative Banks & State Cooperative Banks (scheduled banks having AD category-I license), and
Exim Bank

RBI/2023-24/121
DoR.HGG.GOV.REC.75/29.67.001/2023-24 February 9, 2024 Dear Sir/ Madam Review of Fixed Remuneration granted to Non-Executive Directors (NEDs)

RBI/2023-24/120 DoR.AUT.REC.74/24.01.041/2023-24 February 09, 2024 All Scheduled Commercial BanksMadam/Dear Sir, Participation of Indian Banks on India International Bullion Exchange IFSC Limited (IIBX)

RBI/2023-24/105 DOR. SOG (LEG).REC/64/09.08.024/2023-24 January 1, 2024 Madam/ Dear Sir Inoperative Accounts /Unclaimed Deposits in Banks- Revised Instructions As per extant instructions, the credit balance in any deposit account maintained with banks, which have not been operated upon for ten years or more, or any amount remaining unclaimed for ten years or more, as mentioned in paragraph 3(iii) of the “Depositor Education and Awareness” (DEA) Fund Scheme, 2014, are required to be transferred by banks to DEA Fund maintained by the Reserve Bank of India.

RBI/2023-24/111 DoR.MCS.REC.61/01.01.001/2023-24 December 29, 2023 All Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks, Local Area Banks and Regional Rural Banks, excluding Payments Banks) All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks All NBFCs (including HFCs) and All India Financial Institutions (EXIM Bank, NABARD, NHB, SIDBI and NaBFID)