Board for Financial Supervision
Also written BFS · Board for Financial Supervision (BFS)
The body guiding RBI's supervisory function, undertaking consolidated supervision of banks, all India financial institutions, NBFCs, primary dealers, payments banks, small finance banks and credit information companies.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Alternative Investment FundA privately pooled investment vehicle registered with SEBI that raises money from select Indian or foreign investors under a defined investment policy — never from the public at large.
- Asset Management CompanyThe company that runs a mutual fund's schemes day to day — appointed by the sponsor or trustees with SEBI's approval, and paid a fee out of the scheme rather than a share of its profits.
- Call moneyUncollateralised overnight lending and borrowing of funds between scheduled commercial banks and primary dealers — the shortest segment of the Indian money market.
- Clearing corporationThe entity that steps between every buyer and seller in the derivatives segment by novation, becoming the counterparty to both sides and guaranteeing that the trade settles.
- Credit Information CompanyAn RBI-licensed company that collects borrowers' repayment records from lenders, stores them, and supplies credit information reports and credit scores to specified users.
- CustodianThe SEBI-registered entity that holds a fund's securities in accounts of its own and settles its trades, so the assets sit somewhere other than with the manager who decides what to buy.
Where this is taught
- Series III-C · Chapter 2: Regulatory Framework - General Viewintroduced here
- Series X-A · Chapter 5: Introduction to Indian Financial Marketsintroduced here
- Series XVII · Chapter 9: Regulations & Regulatorsintroduced here
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