External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) – Clarifications on hedging

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....ry-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to paragraphs 2.i and 3 of A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.56 dated March 30, 2016 and paragraph no. 2.5 of Master Direction No.5 dated January 1, 2016 on 'External Commercial Borrowings, Trade Credit, Borrowing and Lending in Foreign Currency by Authorised Dealers and Persons other than Authorised Dealers' as amended from time to time, on the provisions of hedg....

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....currency of ECB. iii.   Natural Hedge: Natural hedge, in lieu of financial hedge, will be considered only to the extent of offsetting projected cash flows / revenues in matching currency, net of all other projected outflows. For this purpose, an ECB may be considered naturally hedged if the offsetting exposure has the maturity/cash flow within the same accounting year. Any other arrangemen....