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June 2012

A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 122, dated 9-5-2012 — Risk Management and Inter-Bank Dealings.

By Gaurang Gandhi, Chartered Accountant
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Presently, banks are permitted to deploy foreign currency funds for granting loans to their resident customers for meeting their foreign exchange requirements or for their rupee working capital/capital expenditure needs, subject to the prudential/interestrate norms, credit discipline and credit monitoring guidelines in force.

This Circular has modified the said policy and banks can now, subject to the prudential/interestrate norms, credit discipline and credit monitoring guidelines in force, use funds in FCNR(B) accounts with them for making loans to resident customers for meeting:

(i) their foreign exchange requirements or

(ii) for the Rupee working capital/capital expenditure needs of exporters/corporates who have a natural hedge or a risk management policy for managing the exchange risk.

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