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RBI issues clarification on banking licences; not possible to give bank permits to all aspirants

04 Jun 2013 Evaluate

Disappointing the corporate aspiring for banking licences, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it will look for very high quality applications to issue new bank permits and may not be possible to issue licences to all eligible applicants. Further, on timeline for granting in-principle approval for bank licence, RBI said, it will not be possible to indicate the timeline for grant of in-principle approvals at this stage. Applicants have to submit their applications by July 1 for evaluation to get new bank licences.

The central bank, which had issued final guidelines for issuing new banking licences on February, came up with clarifications to various queries. The RBI has extended the validity of in-principle licence nod from 12 months to 18 months and clarified that the companies which would be eligible to apply must have a public shareholding of at least 51 per cent.

Besides this, the intending applicants would have to approach other regulators to bring in entities regulated by them under the bank holding company. The RBI’s notification further said that only non-financial services companies and non-operative financial holding companies in the promoter Group would be allowed to hold shares in the holding company.

Further, the central bank added that it has received 443 queries from 34 individuals/organizations and most of the queries it received pertained to provisions on eligible promoters, 'fit and proper' criteria, foreign shareholding, regulatory requirements, on transition time to the new structure and corporate structure of the NOFHC among others. 

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