RBI notifies eligibility norms for Small Finance Banks for Authorised Dealer Category-I.

The eligible SFBs may approach Foreign Exchange Department, Central Office, Reserve Bank of India with their applications along with the supporting documents with regard to their eligibility and a copy of applicant’s banking license and Necessary Board resolution for conducting the activities permitted to an Authorised Dealer Category-I and for obtaining necessary authorisation from the Reserve Bank under section 10(1) of FEMA 1999 for grant of Authorised Dealer Category-I license.

The Passenger Name Record Information Regulations, 2022.

In the event of technical failure, passenger name record information shall be transferred by any other appropriate means, as may be directed by the National Customs Targeting Centre-Passenger, ensuring an appropriate level of information security. Every aircraft operator shall transfer passenger name record information not later than twenty four hours before the departure time; or at the departure time – wheels off.

The City of Panaji Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022.

As per the new section 242A, If any person without obtaining a licence from the Commissioner carries on any trade or occupation in any premises within the limits of the Corporation area, the Commissioner shall, after giving an opportunity of being heard to such person, pass an order to seal such premises.

The Goa Electronic Delivery of Notices Bill, 2022.

As per the bill, a notice served in electronic form shall be deemed to have been duly served when the electronic device used for such notice clearly indicates that such notice is viewed by such person or his authorized representative.

RBI reviews Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives Directions.

Banks in India were permitted, in February 2022, to undertake transactions in the offshore Foreign Currency Settled Overnight Indexed Swap (FCS-OIS) market with non-residents and other market makers with a view to removing the segmentation between onshore and offshore OIS markets and improving the efficiency of price discovery. Standalone Primary Dealers (SPDs) are also market-makers, like banks, in the onshore OIS market. It has now been decided that SPDs authorized under section 10(1) of FEMA,1999 will also be permitted to undertake FCS-OIS transactions directly with non-residents and other market-makers. Necessary directions will be issued shortly.