Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a key driver of economic growth and globalization, involving direct ownership or control in Indian entities by non-resident individuals or entities. Since 2014, Indi...
The term beneficial owner wasn’t defined under the Press Note 3 of 2020, and the FEMA (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019. Hence, there existed a dichotomy in the industry, as to the ownership threshold applicable to the said term. The PMLA Amendment and change in the KYC Norms, in effect, is expected to put that dichotomy on the definition of beneficial owner under the PMLA/KYC Norms, as against the CA 2013, at rest. INDUSLAW's Winnie Shekhar, Anantha Krishnan Iyer, and Siddharth Malakar discuss.
