RBI has, by way of a Notification dated April 23, 2024, amended the Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign Currency Accounts by a Person Resident in India) Regulations, 2015 (‘Foreign Currency Regulations’). Prior to the amendments, sub-clause (F) of Regulation 5 of Foreign Currency Regulations stipulated that subject to compliance with conditions in relation to raising of external commercial borrowings, or raising through American or global depository receipts, the funds that are raised, pending their utilization or repatriation to India, will be held in deposits in foreign currency accounts with a bank outside India. With the current amendment, additionally, the funds that are raised through direct listing of equity shares of companies incorporated in India on international exchanges, pending their utilisation or repatriation to India, will also be held in foreign currency accounts with a bank outside India.