FSDC meeting on September 3; to assess the economy and financial industry.

FSDC meeting on September 3; to assess the economy and financial industry.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman convened a meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) on September 3 to discuss the health of the financial sector and a strategy to aid the pandemic-affected economy’s embryonic recovery. This will be the FSDC’s 24th meeting and the first of the current fiscal year. The most recent meeting took place on December 15, 2020.

The meeting will take place soon after first-quarter GDP figures showed a growth of roughly 20%, compared to a fall of 24.4% in the previous financial year’s quarter.

Some macroeconomic indicators, including tax mobilisation, credit growth, manufacturing increase in specific sectors, and export growth, are showing signs of a nascent recovery.

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According to sources, the FSDC meeting will be placed through video conferencing on Friday.

According to sources, the finance minister may ask financial sector regulators to loosen and harmonise investment criteria for infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs), which are used to monetize public assets such as motorways, power lines, and railway tracks.

Sitharaman unveiled a Rs 6 lakh crore National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) earlier this month, with the goal of unlocking value in infrastructure assets ranging from power to roads and railroads.

The Union Budget for the years 2021-22 identified the monetisation of running public infrastructure assets as a crucial source of long-term infrastructure funding.

The Budget included funding for the creation of a “National Monetisation Pipeline” of prospective brownfield infrastructure assets to help with this. The NMP study was created by NITI Aayog in collaboration with infrastructural ministries.

The asset pipeline under the NMP is estimated to be worth Rs 6 lakh crore over the next four years. The anticipated cost is equal to 14% of the Centre’s proposed outlay under the National Infrastructure Pipeline (Rs 43 lakh crore).

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The conference will also include senior officials from the Finance Ministry.

The FSDC is scheduled to examine several areas of the government’s stimulus initiatives, which were issued in response to the pandemic’s economic crisis.

Members of the FSDC include the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, as well as the heads of the Securities and Exchange Board of India, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, and the International Financial Services Centres Authority.

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You can now buy US stocks such as Facebook, Apple and Google on NSE

You can now buy US stocks such as Facebook, Apple and Google on NSE

The NSE IFSC will be the first in the world to allow Indian retail investors to trade stocks in the United States. “Unsponsored depository receipts will be used to make the offering.”

The NSE International Exchange (NSE IFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), said on August 9 that it will shortly begin trading in select US companies.

The NSE IFSC platform would be used to enable the trading, according to a press release “Unsponsored depository receipts will be used to make the offering. Under the Regulatory Sandbox, IFSCA has made this possible.”

The entire trading, clearing, settlement, and holding of US stocks will be governed by the IFSC authority’s regulatory system.

“This effort is a first of its type at IFSC, where Indian retail investors will be allowed to transact on the NSE IFSC platform within the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Liberalized Remittance Scheme (LRS) limits,” NSE IFSC stated.

The RBI’s LRS framework, for example, allows residents to remit up to $250,000 per fiscal year for any allowed current or capital account transaction.

“The business model offered by NSE IFSC will not only provide additional investment opportunities to Indian investors but will also make the entire investing procedure simple and inexpensive,” the stock exchange noted.

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When compared to the underlying shares traded in US markets, investors will be able to trade in fractional quantities/values, according to the company.

The new structure will make US stocks more accessible to Indian ordinary investors, according to the NSE IFSC.

The NSE IFSC Clearing Corporation Limited (NICCL) will provide a solid risk management framework, enabling clearing and settlement of all trades in depository receipts, and provide settlement assurance for all trades performed on the NSE IFSC platform, according to the company. Furthermore, all trades will be protected by the NSE IFSC’s investor protection structure.

According to the announcement, investors will be able to keep the depository receipts in “their own Demat accounts formed in GIFT City” and will be eligible for corporate action benefits related to the underlying stock.

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NSE IFSC will release operational information soon and will launch the product as soon as feasible, according to the company, which also stated that depositories, banks, and brokers have already begun working with NSE IFSC to make these investment products available to Indian customers.

The introduction of trading in US stocks through NSE IFSC, according to Vikram Limaye, MD and CEO of NSE, will be one of the stock exchange’s important achievements.

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The Finance Ministry has released Rs 9,871 crore as a grant to 17 states.

The Finance Ministry has released Rs 9,871 crore as a grant to 17 states.

The Finance Ministry announced on Tuesday that it had released the fifth monthly instalment of the revenue deficit assistance to 17 states, totalling Rs 9,871 crore. Article 275 of the Constitution provides the states with the Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant.

The grants are distributed in monthly instalments in accordance with the 15th Finance Commission’s recommendations to close the revenue gap in the governments’ accounts following devolution. The commission has recommended that the 17 states get this award in the years 2021-22.

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On August 9, 2021, the Department of Expenditure released the fifth monthly instalment of the Post Devolution Revenue Deficit (PDRD) grant to the states, totalling Rs 9,871 crore, according to a statement from the ministry.

In the current financial year, a total of Rs 49,355 crore has been distributed to eligible states.

Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal are among the states nominated for the PDRD Grant by the Fifteenth Finance Commission.

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In the financial year 2021-22, the Fifteenth Finance Commission has suggested a total PDRD Grant of Rs 1,18,452 crore for the 17 states. So far, Rs 49,355 crore (41.67 per cent) has been released from this total.

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