External Commercial Borrowings Current Affairs, GK & News

External Commercial Borrowings

December 3, 2010

In India External Commercial Borrowings are defined to include commercial bank loans, buyers’ credit, suppliers’ credit, securitised instruments such as Floating Rate Notes and Fixed Rate Bonds, etc., credit from official export credit agencies and commercial borrowings from the private sector window of Multilateral Financial Institutions such as International Finance Corporation (Washington), ADB, AFIC, CDC ..

New Policy for Overseas Borrowings

February 9, 2019

The Reserve Bank has come out with a new policy for overseas borrowings. The RBI has rationalized the earlier policy in consultation with the Government of India. Features of the New Overseas Borrowing Policy The features of the new policy are: The new policy allows all eligible borrowers to raise External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) up ..

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RBI liberalises norms governing external commercial borrowings for infrastructure creation

November 8, 2018

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has liberalised norms governing external commercial borrowings (ECBs) for infrastructure creation. The provisions have been reviewed and decision has been taken in consultation with Central Government. Key Facts RBI has reduced minimum average maturity required for the ECBs in the infrastructure space raised by eligible borrowers to three years from ..

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RBI eases External borrowing norms to enable cheaper funds

April 30, 2018

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has further liberalised External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) Policy by including more sectors in the window in a bid to facilitate cheaper access of overseas funds to Indian companies. Key Facts RBI has stipulated uniform, all-in cost ceiling of 450 basis points (bps) over benchmark rate, which, in most cases, ..

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