RBI Updated Master Circulars of Issued by RBI July 2, 2015 commerceclub Sl No Master Circulars 1 Master Circular – Capital Adequacy Standards and Risk Management Guidelines for Standalone Primary Dealers 2 Master Circular – ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) Guidelines – Anti Money Laundering Standards (AML) – ‘Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 – Obligations of NBFCs in terms of Rules notified thereunder’ 3 Master Circular – Miscellaneous Instructions to all Non-Banking Financial Companies 4 Master Circular – Prudential Guidelines for the Primary Dealers in Government Securities Market 5 Master Circular – Prudential Norms for Classification, Valuation and Operation of Investment Portfolio by FIs 6 Master Circular – Disclosure Norms for Financial Institutions 7 Master Circular – Exposure Norms for Financial Institutions 8 Master Circular – Prudential norms on Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning pertaining to Advances 9 Master Circular on Wilful Defaulters 10 Master Circular – Disclosure in Financial Statements – ‘Notes to Accounts’ 11 Master Circular – Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) 12 Master Circular – Prudential Norms for Classification, Valuation and Operation of Investment Portfolio by Banks 13 Master Circular on Foreign Investment in India 14 Master Circular- Loans and Advances – Statutory and Other Restrictions 15 Notification as amended up to June 30, 2015 – The Securitisation Companies and Reconstruction Companies (Reserve Bank) Guidelines and Directions, 2003 16 Master Circular on Memorandum of Instructions governing money changing activities 17 Master Circular on Miscellaneous Remittances from India – Facilities for Residents 18 Master Circular – Collection of Direct Taxes- OLTAS 19 Master Circular on Memorandum of Instructions for Opening and Maintenance of Rupee/ Foreign Currency Vostro Accounts of Non-resident Exchange Houses 20 Master Circular – Returns to be submitted by NBFCs 21 Master Circular on Money Transfer Service Scheme 22 Master Circular – Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy – Basel I Framework 23 Master Circular – Prudential Guidelines on Capital Adequacy and Market Discipline-New Capital Adequacy Framework (NCAF) 24 Master Circular on Remittance Facilities for Non-Resident Indians / Persons of Indian Origin / Foreign Nationals 25 Master Circular on Risk Management and Inter-Bank Dealings 26 Master Circular on Export of Goods and Services 27 Master Circular on Import of Goods and Services 28 Notification as Amended upto June 30, 2015 – Change in or Take Over of the Management of the Business of the Borrower by Securitisation Companies and Reconstruction Companies (Reserve Bank) Guidelines, 2010 29 Master Circular on Conduct of Government Business by Agency Banks – Payment of Agency Commission 30 Master Circular on Acquisition and Transfer of Immovable Property in India by NRIs/PIOs/Foreign Nationals of Non-Indian Origin 31 Master Circular on Non-Resident Ordinary Rupee (NRO) Account 32 Master Circular – Disbursement of Government Pension by Agency Banks 33 Master Circular – Guidelines for Issue of Certificates of Deposit 34 Master Circular – Guidelines for Issue of Commercial Paper 35 Master Circular- Management of Advances – UCBs 36 Master Circular – Guarantees and Co-acceptances 37 Frauds – Classification and Reporting 38 Master Circular – Lending to Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) Sector 39 Master Circular – Exposure Norms 40 Master Circular – Resource Raising Norms for Financial Institutions 41 Master Circular on Compounding of Contraventions under FEMA, 1999 42 Master Circular – Policy Guidelines on Issuance and Operation of Pre-paid Payment Instruments in India 43 Master Circular – Guidelines for Relief Measures by banks in areas affected by Natural Calamities 44 Master Circular – Mobile Banking transactions in India – Operative Guidelines for Banks 45 Master Circular- Credit Facilities to Minority Communities 46 Master Circular on Interest Rates on Rupee Deposits held in Domestic, Ordinary Non-Resident (NRO) and Non-Resident (External) (NRE) Accounts 47 Master Circular- Exposure Norms and Statutory / Other Restrictions – UCBs 48 Master Circular – Credit facilities to Scheduled Castes (SCs) & Scheduled Tribes (STs) 49 Master Circular on Area of Operation, Branch Authorisation Policy, Opening/Up-gradation of Extension Counters, ATMs and Shifting/Splitting/Closure of Offices 50 Master Circular on Customer Service – UCBs 51 Master Circular on Customer Service in Banks 52 Master Circular on Establishment of Liaison / Branch / Project Offices in India by Foreign Entities 53 Master Circular – Detection and Impounding of Counterfeit Notes 54 Master Circular – Basel III Capital Regulations 55 Master Circular on Call/Notice Money Market Operations 56 Master Circular – Priority Sector Lending- Targets and Classification 57 Master Circular on Appointment and Delisting of Brokers, and Payment of Brokerage on Relief/Savings Bonds 58 Master Circular on Nomination facility for Relief/Savings bonds 59 Master Circular – Levy of Penal Interest for Delayed Reporting/Wrong Reporting/Non-Reporting of Currency Chest Transactions and Inclusion of Ineligible Amounts in Currency Chest Balances 60 Master Circular – Lead Bank Scheme 61 Master Circular- Rupee / Foreign Currency Export Credit and Customer Service To Exporters 62 Master Circular – Housing Finance 63 Master Circular- Income Recognition, Asset Classification, Provisioning and Other Related Matters – UCBs 64 Master Circular on Investments by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks 65 Master Circular – Know Your Customer (KYC) norms / Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards/Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT)/Obligation of banks and financial institutions under PMLA, 2002 66 Master Circular on Direct Investment by Residents in Joint Venture (JV) / Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) Abroad 67 Master Circular on Interest Rates on Deposits held in FCNR (B) Accounts 68 Master Circular – Facility for Exchange of Notes and Coins 69 Master Circular – Interest Rates on Advances 70 Master Circular – Bank Finance to Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) 71 Master Circular – Operational Guidelines for Primary Dealers 72 Master Circular on External Commercial Borrowings and Trade Credits 73 Master Circular Interest Rates on Rupee Deposits – Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks 74 Master Circular on Credit Card, Debit Card and Rupee Denominated Co-branded Pre-paid Card Operations of Banks and Credit Card issuing NBFCs 75 Master Circular – Para-banking Activities 76 Master Circular on SHG-Bank Linkage Programme 77 Master Circulars- Miscellaneous Instructions to NBFC- ND-SI 78 Master Circular – The Non-Banking Financial Company – Factors (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2012 (Corrected) 79 Master Circular– Requirement for Obtaining Prior Approval of RBI in Cases of Acquisition / Transfer of Control of NBFCs 80 Master Circular– Regulatory Framework for Core Investment Companies (CICs) 81 Master Circular – Opening of Branch/Subsidiary/Joint Venture/ Representative office or Undertaking Investment Abroad by NBFCs 82 Master Circular – “Non-Systemically Important Non-Banking Financial (Non-Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2015” 83 Master Circular – “Non-Banking Financial (Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007” 84 Master Circular – “Non-Banking Financial Companies Acceptance of Public Deposits (Reserve Bank) Directions, 1998” 85 Master Circular- ‘Non-Banking Financial Company-Micro Finance Institutions’ (NBFC-MFIs) – Directions 86 Master Circular – “Miscellaneous Non-Banking Companies (Reserve Bank) Directions, 1977” 87 Master Circular – “Infrastructure Debt Fund-Non-Banking Financial Companies (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2011” 88 Master Circular – Frauds –Future approach towards monitoring of frauds in NBFCs 89 Master Circular – Fair Practices Code 90 Master Circular- Exemptions from the provisions of RBI Act, 1934 91 Master Circular – Allied activities- Entry into insurance business, issue of credit card and marketing and distribution of certain products 92 Master Circular – “Systemically Important Non-Banking Financial (Non-Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2015” 93 Master Circular – “Non-Banking Financial Companies – Corporate Governance (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2015” 94 Master Circular – Non-Banking Financial Companies Auditor’s Report (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2008 95 Master Circular on Branch Licensing 96 Master Circular- Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy – UCBs 97 Master Circular – Priority Sector Lending – UCBs 98 Master Circular- Finance for Housing Schemes – UCBs 99 Master Circular- Guarantees, Co-Acceptances & Letters of Credit – UCBs 100 Master Circular on Maintenance of Deposit Accounts – Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks 101 Master Circular on Maintenance of Statutory Reserves – Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks 102 Master Circular on Inspection & Audit Systems in Primary (Urban) Co- operative Banks 103 Master Circular on Board of Directors – UCBs 104 Master Circular on Frauds – Classification and Reporting
