[Bhawana Keshwani is a student at Law College Dehradun, Faculty of Uttaranchal University] In March 2019, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) along with Government of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced a new window called “Voluntary Retention Route” to encourage Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) to lock their investments in India for a considerable period. This...
Relief for Distressed under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code
[Utkarsh Jhingan is a fourth year BA LLB (Hons.) student and Rakshit Raj Singh a third year BA LLB (Hons.) student at NUALS, Kochi] India’s corporate sector debt has become a cause for concern as the mounting debts of major companies are at an unsustainable level. In recent years some of the companies have been entangled in a debt trap as their debt payment requirements have grown at a higher...
Real Estate Intermediaries: A Missed Opportunity in the Recent ECB Framework?
[Bhavin Gada, Soumya Shanker and Sharan Sanil are with M/s Economic Laws Practice, Advocates and Solicitors. The views of the authors are personal] Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”), through the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending) Regulations, 2018, consolidated all the erstwhile foreign exchange regulations governing the borrowing and lending in foreign currency or...
RBI Notifies New Framework Policy for External Commercial Borrowings
[Nidhisha Garg is a 3rd year B.A., LL.B (Hons.) student at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal] On 16 January 2019, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) notified the new policy for External Commercial Borrowings (ECB). It seeks to revise the policy that was earlier in place by virtue of the Master Direction on External Commercial Borrowings dated 1 January 2016, as updated from time to time...
RBI’s Amendment to the Hedging Policy for ECBs: Reasoning and Impact
[Saher Fatima and Siddharth Tandon are III year students at the National Law University, Jodhpur] Introduction Over the years, external commercial borrowings (“ECB”) have become a preferred source of finance for Indian entities. ECBs refer to commercial loans in the form of bank loans, securitized instruments, buyers’ credit or suppliers’ credit availed of from non-resident lenders with a minimum...
The “Masala” in Rupee Denominated Bonds
[Anirudh Singh is a 4th year B.A LL.B (Hons.) student at NALSAR University, Hyderabad] Background Rupee Denominated Bonds (RDBs),more commonly known as “Masala Bonds”, are debt securities denominated in Indian rupees issued by Indian entities to overseas investors but settled in foreign currency. In other words, they are rupee denominated bonds issued to overseas buyers. Though these bonds are...
Liberalization of RBI’s Policies
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last week issued a series of circulars liberalizing and streamlining its policies on various types of equity investments as well as on external commercial borrowings (ECBs). The key pronouncements are highlighted below: 1. Foreign Investment in “Other Financial Services” In the case of non-banking finance companies...
Problems with the RBI’s new ECB framework
[This guest post is by Pratik Datta and Shefali Malhotra, who are Consultants at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected] respectively.] Introduction This blog had earlier explained the policy backdrop leading up to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) draft framework for External...
RBI Introduces Rupee-Denominated Bonds Regime
[The following guest post is contributed by Vinod Kothari of Vinod Kothari & Co.] Continuing with some other recent moves to liberalise the options of raising debt from external sector, the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) on 29 September, 2015 announced new guidelines (the “Guidelines”) for issuance of rupee-denominated bonds (“RDBs”) overseas. The Guidelines are much more...
RBI’s Proposal for a Major Recast of ECB Norms
[The following guest post is contributed by Vinod Kothari of Vinod Kothari & Co. It deals with the details of the proposals announced by the RBI. In an earlier post, Pratik Datta sets out the background to RBI’s proposals] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed a major recast of the norms for external commercial borrowings (ECBs). While India is still far from...
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