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External Commercial Borrowings
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 ..
..Read MoreNew Policy for Overseas Borrowings
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 ..
Month: Current Affairs - February, 2019
Topics: Exim Bank • External Commercial Borrowings • Overseas Borrowings • Policy for Overseas Borrowings • SIDBI
RBI liberalises norms governing external commercial borrowings for infrastructure creation
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 ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2018
Topics: Banking • Business • ECBs • Economy • External Commercial Borrowings • Infrastructure Sector • RBI
RBI eases External borrowing norms to enable cheaper funds
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, ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2018
Topics: Banking • Business • ECBs • Economy • External Borrowing • External Commercial Borrowings • RBI