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rashh (Querist)

08 January 2015 Hello

Can Anyone Please tell me what does ECB Exactly means? i googled it but did not get the exact meaning kindly tell me the meaning in lay terms & the usage of it & the interest charged on it.

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CS Mitesh Mehta

CS Mitesh Mehta (Expert)

17 January 2015 ECB stands for External Commercial Borrowings

An external commercial borrowing (ECB) is an instrument used in India to facilitate the access to foreign money by Indian corporations and PSUs (public sector undertakings). ECBs include commercial bank loans, buyers' credit, suppliers' credit, securitised instruments such as floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds etc., credit from official export credit agencies and commercial borrowings from the private sector window of multilateral financial Institutions such as International Finance Corporation (Washington), ADB, AFIC, CDC, etc. ECBs cannot be used for investment in stock market or speculation in real estate. The DEA (Department of Economic Affairs), Ministry of Finance, Government of India along with Reserve Bank of India, monitors and regulates ECB guidelines and policies.

you may refer the link below for further information

https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/BS_ViewMasCirculardetails.aspx?id=9069

rashh

rashh (Querist)

29 January 2015 Thank You for your reply

Kindly Clarify me in the below things :

So it is about that u can save urself from being incurring a loss while trading in foreign currencies right??

and what if the currency rate goes down & instead u incurr a loss rather then incurring profit in actual sense??

How would an ECB Account Runs or works in actual sense.?

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