RBI relaxes investment norms for NBFC in insurance ventures

29 Nov 2013 Evaluate

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has relaxed norms for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) in insurance joint ventures by allowing them to hold more than 50% in such companies, if the insurance regulator requires them to do so to meet capital infusion requirements, that too on case to case basis. Further, the relaxation is subject to compliance by the NBFC with all regulatory conditions.

According to the existing rules, if more than one company from the same group of an NBFC wants to buy stake in an insurance company, the contribution by all companies in the same group should not surpass 50% in the insurance JV.

Further, RBI observed that IRDA very often mandated an insurance company to expand its capital taking into account the stipulations of the Insurance Act and the solvency requirements of the insurance company and that the restriction of a group limit of the NBFC to 50% of the equity of the insurance JV company was acting as a constraint for the insurance company. In view of this, RBI decided to consider a case-to-case basis relaxation of the 50% group limit norm for NBFCs (non-banking finance companies) in the equity of insurance joint venture.

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