Updated Master Circulars of Issued by RBI

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

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