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Regulations-Review-Authority-RRA-2-0-Interim-Recommendations-Discontinuation-Merger-Online-Submission-of-Returns

RBI/2021-2022/163
DoS.CO.PPG./SEC.08/11.01.005/2021-22

February 18, 2022

All Scheduled Commercial Banks / All Payments Banks
All Small Finance Banks / All Co-operative Banks
All NBFCs / All Credit Rating Agencies

Madam / Dear Sir

Regulations Review Authority (RRA 2.0) – Interim Recommendations –
Discontinuation/Merger/Online Submission of Returns

Please refer to the press release dated February 18, 2022 issued on the captioned subject.

2. As part of the implementation of the interim recommendations of the RRA 2.0, it is proposed to discontinue/merge the returns listed in the Annex 1. Further, it is also proposed to convert, the paper based/ e-mail-based returns listed in the Annex 2, into online filing.

3. The exact date of discontinuation/merger and online filing of the returns, would be notified in due course.

Yours faithfully,

(Arnab Kumar Chowdhury)
Chief General Manager-in- Charge

Encl: As enclosed

Annex - 1

List of Returns to be Discontinued

S. No.	Return Name	Return Description
1	Return on Offshore Banking Units (OBUs) – Quarterly	Return for capturing details on off-shore banking units.
2	Statement on bad debts written off. – Yearly	Main objective of the proposed reporting is to provide information to the bank on bad debts written off.
3	Fraud Monitoring Return 2 (FMR2) – Quarterly	To capture the summary of all frauds during the quarter involving an amount of Rs 1 lakh or more for all NBFC-D and NBFC-NDSIs.

Annex - 2

List of Returns to be converted into Online submission

S. No.	Return Name	Return Description
1	Report on financial conglomerates – Quarterly	Capturing the intra-group transactions and exposures amongst the identified FCs.
2	Whole Bank Long Form Audit Report and Compliance thereof – Yearly	The Statutory Central Auditors are required to submit the LFAR to the banks latest by 30th June every year. The banks were advised to forward a copy each of the LFAR, relative agenda note along with Board's views or directions to the concerned Regional Office of Department of Banking Supervision within 60 days of submission of LFAR by the Statutory Auditors.
3	Half-Yearly Review of Investment Portfolio – Half-yearly	Qualitative/ Quantitative review of entire investment portfolio of the bank for the half year.
4	Fraud Monitoring Return 1 (FMR1) – as and when	To capture the details of the fraud committed by staff, outsiders or customers involving an amount of Rs 1 lakh or more for all NBFC-D and NBFC-NDSIs.
5	Fraud Monitoring Return 3 (FMR3) – Quarterly	To capture the updated information in respect of frauds reported through FMR-1 for all NBFC-D and NBFC-NDSIs.
6	Return on delay in Rating Review (by Credit Rating Agencies) – Monthly	Information on latest ratings provided by the Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) during the month and ratings delayed in review
7	Quarterly Return for Frauds less than ? 1 lakh – Quarterly	Unified FMR for below 1 lakh*
8	KYC AML - Quarterly	This return captures information which facilitates supervision in better risk discovery, improved risk-assessment and Risk Based Assessment.