INDIA: India Eases Foreign Investment Rules for Corporate Debt

Monday September 25 2017

On the 22 September 2017, India’s central bank eased rules governing foreign investment in corporate bonds by excluding rupee-denominated securities from its overall debt limit.

The move potentially freed up 440 billion rupees ($6.79 billion) of debt available to offshore investors.

Rupee-denominated bonds more widely known as masala bonds will now come under rules for external commercial borrowings and issuers will have to take prior permission from the RBI to raise the paper.

Earlier these masala bonds used to be classified under the foreign portfolio investment limit for corporate bonds that stands at 2.44 trillion rupees. This total limit has been fully taken up following massive foreign inflows.

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