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RBI floats guidelines for MSME trading platform

04 Dec 2014 Evaluate

In order to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted setting up of an exchange-based trading platform to facilitate financing of bills raised by such small entities to corporate and other buyers, including government departments and PSUs.

With respect to this, Apex Bank has floated new guidelines for setting up and operating the trade receivables discounting system in the country, called TReDS, with a minimum paid-up equity capital of Rs 25 crore. Therein, it also underscored that it was open to accept application for setting up TReDS, till the close of business on February 13, 2015.

The rules laid down by RBI suggested that TReDs wouldn’t be allowed to assume any credit risk and that foreign holding in them would be as per the extant foreign investment policy. While, for shareholding for entities other than promoters, wouldn’t be in excess of 10% of the equity capital of the TReDS. RBI, highlighted that overall financial strength of the promoters/entity seeking to set up TReDS would be important criteria of assessment/selection.

Further, RBI in its guidelines urged TReDS to have suitable Business Continuity Plan (BCP) including a disaster recovery site and have an online surveillance capability which monitors positions, prices and volumes in real time so as to check system manipulation.

This development validates RBI’s governor, Raghuram Rajan announcement to facilitate an electronic bill factoring exchange in the country for MSMEs in September 2013. According to RBI, MSMEs, despite playing an important role in the economic fabric of the country, were facing constraints in obtaining adequate finance, particularly in terms of their ability to convert their trade receivables into liquid funds. It expects an institutional mechanism to fund trade receivables would resolve such liquidity issue.

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