"We wish to partner with Indian banks and other financial institutions for mutual Nostro/Vostro accounts, and the bank wants to expand its ...

Russian banks, including VTB, Sberbank, and Gazprombank, are considering becoming foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to trade on Indian sto...

Two Russian institutional entities and an individual, all based in Moscow, appear in the list of registered foreign portfolio investors (FP...

Reserve Bank of India clarifies that a foreign investor can't be both FPI & FDI in same company

Move to make it easier for offshore fund managers trading on Indian exchanges to set up shop in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

India has seen an overall FPI outflow to the tune of 1.43 lakh crore, NSDL data showed.

Sebi has extended People’s Bank of China’s foreign portfolio investor licence by three years

To be sure, there are no restrictions on Chinese funds investing in Indian markets through portfolio route. However, custodian banks are he...

Funds must still pay the STT and capital gains tax on investment gains in Indian assets.

At present, funds from jurisdictions that are FATF complaint were permitted to get a licence under properly regulated category or Category ...

Local custodians have received requests seeking compliance relaxations for FPI accounts as investors overseas are working from home.

Indian regulators have been wary of indirect investment routes.

In FY19, inflows through the FDI route amounted to $62 billion, central bank data showed.

The move comes as the government faces a backlash from several foreign funds.

This is the first time since 2014 there is a net fall in the total number of registered FPIs.

Custodians are market institutions that hold and protect securities on behalf of their clients.

It currently takes three to four weeks or even longer to grant licences to FPIs.