Ans. Resident individuals (but not permanently resident in India) who have remitted their entire earnings and salary and wish to further remit ‘other income’ may approach RBI with documents through their AD bank for consideration.

Ans: The monthly updates mentioned in the circular specifically relate to the inclusion of new secured assets possessed by the REs, and the removal of the secured assets that have been sold or resolved by the REs.

Ans.: The reference period of an MF survey round is the immediately preceding financial year (April-March).

The requirement is that the companies in the Promoter Group in which the public hold not less than 51 per cent of the voting equity shares shall hold not less than 51 per cent of the total voting equity shares of the NOFHC.[ para 2 (C) (ii) (b) of the guidelines] A company in which public holds 51 per cent need not necessarily be listed. For the purpose of these guidelines, ‘public shareholding’ implies that no person along with his relatives (as defined in Section 6 of the Companies Act, 1956) and entities in which he and / or his relatives hold not less than 50 per cent of the voting equity shares, by virtue of his shareholding or otherwise, exercises ‘significant influence’ or ‘control’ (as defined in Accounting Standard 23) over the company.

Yes, there is an opt in / opt out feature in the apps of the participating banks in India for receiving the remittances from Singapore.

To give time to the banks to make preparatory arrangements, members of the public are requested to approach the bank branches or ROs of RBI from May 23, 2023 for availing exchange facility.

Ans: For transactions up to ₹50,000, the charges are as follows:

1. Originating bank – Maximum ₹5/- per transaction.

2. State Bank of India – ₹20/- per transaction. SBI would share this ₹20/- with NSBL at ₹10 each. NSBL would not charge any additional amount for crediting the beneficiary. if he maintains an account with it.

3. In case the beneficiary does not maintain an account with NSBL then, an additional amount would be charged- ₹50/- for remittances up to ₹5,000/- and ₹75/- for remittance above ₹5,000/-.

4. For transactions above ₹50,000/-, charges prescribed by SBI shall apply. The charges prescribed by SBI is available on the website of SBI under the hyperlink - https://nsbl.statebank/remittance-from-india.

Ans: No. DLG arrangements for credit cards are not permitted.

The RE needs to publish the FF along with opinion of external reviewer on the FF (before implementation of FF) on its website. There is no requirement of publishing FF twice, i.e., one before and another after external review.

Ans: The limits on cash withdrawal at ATMs and for purchase of goods and services are decided by the card issuer. Within these limits, the card holder may set and modify transaction limits for various uses like domestic, international, PoS, ATMs, online transactions, contactless transactions, etc. Cash withdrawal using debit cards and full-KYC prepaid cards at PoS terminals has been allowed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) whereby, a maximum of ₹2,000 can be withdrawn per transaction within an overall monthly limit of ₹10,000. Cardholders can check with their issuers for details of such facilities provided by them.

Answer: “Capital account transaction" means a transaction which alters the assets or liabilities, including contingent liabilities, outside India of persons resident in India or assets or liabilities in India of persons resident outside India. Please refer to the Foreign Exchange Management (Permissible Capital Account Transactions) Regulations, 2000 for permitted capital account transactions.

Ans. Normally, in a tokenised card transaction, parties / stakeholders involved are merchant, the merchant’s acquirer, token service provider (card payment network or card issuer), token requestor, issuer and customer. However, an entity, other than those indicated, may also participate in the transaction.

No. An investor can have only one unique investor Id linked to any of the prescribed identification documents. The unique investor ID is to be used for all the subsequent investments in the scheme. For holding securities in dematerialized form, quoting of PAN in the application form is mandatory.

No.

Ans: In case of delinquent loans, REs can deploy physical interface to recover loans in cash, where absolutely necessary. In order to afford operational flexibility to REs, such transactions are exempted from the requirement of direct repayment of loan in the RE’s bank account. However, any recovery by cash should be duly reflected in the borrower’s account and REs shall ensure that any fees, charges, etc., payable to LSPs are paid directly by them (REs) and are not charged by LSP to the borrower directly or indirectly from the recovery proceeds.

Ans. Cases involving serious contravention suspected of money laundering, terror financing or affecting sovereignty and integrity of the nation are categorized as sensitive contraventions. These contraventions shall not be compounded by the Reserve Bank of India.

Answer: Any multilateral organization, of which India is a member nation, or its subsidiary/ affiliate bodies and officials in India can open deposits with an authorised dealer in India.

Ans. In such case, an OVD containing the earlier name along with a copy of the Gazette notification, or marriage certificate issued by the State Government, as applicable, indicating the change in name, can be submitted for opening the account.

Ans: Yes, the circular will be applicable to the existing borrowers.

Ans: Yes. e₹ can be loaded/redeemed/transferred from/to one’s bank account to/from the e₹ wallet 24 hours x 7 days a week.