Regulating Commercial Banking

RBI/2012-13/560 DNBD(PD) CC No. 330/03.10.001/2012-13 June 27, 2013 All NBFCs (including PDs) Dear Sirs Raising Money through Private Placement by NBFCs-Debentures etc. NBFCs raise money by issuing capital/debt securities including debentures by way of public issue or private placement. In the case of public issue of such securities, institutions and retail investors can participate. Private placement, on the other hand, may involve institutional investors. It has how

RBI/2012-13/547 DIT.CO(Policy)No. 2636/09.63.025/2012-13 June 26, 2013 The Chairmen/Chief Executive Officers, All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) Dear Sir/Madam, Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Tests (VAPT) and Information Security Please refer paragraph 102 of the Monetary Policy Statement 2013-14 wherein we have emphasised the importance of securing the Information Systems (IS) of banks. In order for banks to

DBS.ARS.No.BC. 08/ 08.92.001/ 2012-13 June 25, 2013 The Chairman & Managing Director, all Nationalised Banks and The Managing Director, Associate Banks of SBI Dear Sir, Remuneration payable to the Statutory Central and Branch Auditors of Public Sector Banks from the year 2012-13 Please refer to instructions contained in our circulars DBS.ARS.No.BC.08 / 08.92.001/ 2006-07 dated June 6, 2007, DBS.ARS.BC. No. 3/ 08.92.001/ 2007-08 dated July 25, 2007, DBS.ARS.BC. No.

RBI/2012-13/538 DBOD.BP.BC.No. 104/08.12.015/2012-13 June 21, 2013 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) Dear Sir, Housing Sector: New sub-sector CRE (Residential Housing) within CRE & Rationalisation of provisioning, risk-weight and LTV ratios Please refer to paragraph 82 of the Monetary Policy Statement 2013-14 (extract enclosed) on ‘Commercial Real Estate - Residential Housing: Prudential Norms’, announced on May 3, 2013, wherein it was stated that a

RBI/2012-13/536 DBOD.BP.BC. No.103/21.06.001/2012-13 June 20, 2013 The Chairman and Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of All Commercial Banks (excluding LABs and RRBs) Dear Sir Risk Weights on deposits placed with NABARD/SIDBI/NHB in lieu of shortfall in achievement of priority sector lending targets/sub-targets It has been observed that there is a lack of uniformity among banks in application of risk weights on claims on deposits placed with NABARD/SIDBI/NHB

RBI/2012-13/535 DBOD.No.BP.BC.102/21.04.157/2012-13 June 18, 2013 The Chairman and Managing Directors/ Chief Executive Officers of All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs and LABs) & All India Term-Lending & Refinancing Institutions Madam / Sir, Prudential Norms for Off-balance Sheet Exposures of Banks – Deferment of Option Premium Banks are permitted to defer, at their discretion, the premium on plain vanilla options sold by them to users subject to ce

RBI/2012-13/534 DBOD.FID.FIC.No.5/01.02.00 /2012-13 June 17, 2013 The CEOs of All-India Term-Lending and Refinancing Institutions (Exim Bank, NABARD, NHB and SIDBI) Dear Sir, Review of Prudential Guidelines on Restructuring of Advances by Financial Institutions (FIs) In continuation of our letter DBOD.FID.FIC.No.6/01.02.00/2010-11 dated October 14, 2010 on the captioned subject, please find enclosed circular DBOD.BP.BC.No.99/ 21.04.132/2012-13 dated May 30, 2013 and t

RBI /2012-13/524 DBS.FrMC.BC.No.7/23.04.001/2012-13 June 07, 2013 The Chairmen & Chief Executive Officers of all Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) and All India Select Financial Institutions Dear Sir/Madam, Legal Audit of title documents in respect of large value loan accounts Please refer to para 3.1 of our circular DBS.CO. FrMC. BC .No. 11/ 23.0.001/ 2010-11 dated June 30, 2011 requiring banks to put in place a system wherein the concurrent auditors we

RBI/2012-2013/518 UBD.BPD (PCB) Cir. No. 52 /14.01.062/2012-13 May 31, 2013 The Chief Executive Officer All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks Madam / Dear Sir, Implementation of Section 51-A of UAPA, 1967 – Updates of the UNSCR 1267 (1999) /1989 (2011) Committee’s Al-Qaida Sanctions List and Consolidated List – Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks Please refer to our circular UBD. BPD. (PCB) Cir. No. 47/ 14.01.062/ 2012-13 dated April 4, 2013 on the captioned subject.

RBI/2012-13/516 DBOD.No.Leg.BC.100/09.07.005/2012-13 May 31, 2013 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) Dear Sir/Madam, Acknowledgement by banks at the time of submission of Form 15-G / 15-H As you are aware banks are not required to deduct TDS from depositors who submit declaration in Form 15-G/15-H under Income Tax Rules, 1962. However, it has been brought to our notice that despite submission of Form 15-G/15-H by customers, banks are deducting tax at sour