Reserve Bank of India

RBI Imposes Restrictions on Another Cooperative Bank

By Editors | 14/01/2020

Sri Guru Raghavendra Sahakara Bank is not allowed to grant or renew loans and advances, make investments, borrow funds or accept fresh deposits.

AML / KYC

RBI Allows Regulated Entities to Use Video-based KYC

By Editors | 10/01/2020

Financial services firms can record video and capture photos of customers presenting their identity document for verification. Electronically-submitted and digitally-signed documents can also be accepted.

Capital / Liquidity

RBI Introduces Supervisory Action Framework for Troubled UCBs

By Editors | 09/01/2020

Under the framework, the RBI will monitor UCBs’ asset quality, profitability and capital, and initiate supervisory action when specific thresholds are breached.

Market Infrastructure

RBI Allows Banks to Offer FX Trading Beyond Market Hours

By Editors | 08/01/2020

The move is aimed at improving the ability of market participants to hedge currency risk in the onshore rupee market to boost domestic trading volumes.

Fintech / Regtech

India’s NPCI Unveils DLT Based Platform to Further Streamline Payments

By Editors | 07/01/2020

The Vajra Platform will enhance data security and transparency, facilitate real-time transactions and reduce reconciliation challenges and processing errors, the NPCI said.

Securities / Derivatives

RBI Expands Scope of Currency Derivatives Reporting Regime

By Editors | 07/01/2020

To date, the reporting framework only required banks to report currency derivatives transactions worth over $1mn. All transactions below this threshold now have to be reported.

Market Infrastructure

RBI Names Six ‘Significant’ Financial Benchmarks

By Editors | 06/01/2020

Financial Benchmarks India Pvt Ltd has three months to make an application to the RBI for authorisation to continue administering the benchmarks.

Enforcement

Indian Police Lay Charges Against Five in PMC Bank Fraud Case

By Editors | 01/01/2020

The 32,000-page charge sheet lays out charges against three executives from PMC Bank and two promoters of HDIL, which received about 67bn rupees in ‘hidden’ loans.

Capital / Liquidity

UPDATE – RBI Tightens Scrutiny of Urban Cooperative Banks

By Editors | 31/12/2019

The RBI is tightening exposure limits, mandating that a larger proportion of loans come from small borrowers, and requiring bigger UCBs to report large exposures on a quarterly basis.