The newly appointed Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Reserve Bank of India with Dr. Ashima Goyal, Professor Jayanth R. Varma, and Dr. Shashanka Bhide, as external members met on 7th, 8th, and 9th October 2020 in its first meeting and the 25th under the monetary policy framework that was instituted in June 2016. “The MPC […]
India’s first gas exchange — the Indian Gas Exchange (IGX) — was launched on Monday, September 28, 2020. The exchange is expected to facilitate transparent price discovery in natural gas, and enable the growth of the share of natural gas in India’s energy basket. The IGX is a digital trading platform that will allow buyers […]
Reserve Bank of India in tune with its policy to prepare Urban Co-operative Banks (UCB) for meeting the challenges of modern technological ways of extension of banking through Urban Co-operative banks issued a detailed communication dated 24th September 2020 titled ‘Technology vision for cybersecurity for urban co-operative banks’. It introduces the UCBs to get prepared […]
On 24th September 2020, the Reserve Bank of India placed on its website a Working Paper titled ‘Inflation Forecast Combinations – The Indian Experience’ under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series. The Paper has been authored by Joice John, Sanjay Singh, and Muneesh Kapur, from RBI though the views expressed were their personal […]
Reserve Bank of India in its RBI Working Paper Series No. 09 dated September 22, 2020, published a paper on its website which measures the financial stress in India focusing on the construction of financial stress indices for the Indian financial system using market-based indicators and three different aggregation methods. The paper finds that these […]
Wire fraud, known since 1872 gets mentioned for various crimes committed by all including many Indians in the United States of America. I would like to quote from the United States Department of Justice archives and define it as ‘The elements of wire fraud under Section 1343 directly parallel those of the mail fraud statute, […]
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The draft guidelines, for COVID – 19 were released by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), Government of India. on September 21, 2020., which is reproduced from their web site as follows: https://cdsco.gov.in/opencms/opencms/system/modules/CDSCO.WEB/elements/download_file_division.jsp?num_id=NjUwMA== A 40-page document with 73 subsections, it declares that it will provide guidance to the vaccine developers to ensure that- –vaccines […]
RBI: Role of Chief Compliance Officer (COO)–Discussion on compliance function in banks Reserve Bank of India vides its communication dated September 11, 2020, informed that in order to have an effective compliance culture, independent corporate compliance function, and a strong compliance risk management program at the bank and group level, an independent compliance function is […]
The Securities Exchange Board of India has introduced a Settlement Scheme, 2020 vide Public Notice dated July 27, 2020, in terms of Regulation 26 of the SEBI (Settlement Proceedings) Regulations 2018. The purpose of the Scheme is to provide a one-time opportunity for settlement to the entities that have executed reversal trades in the stock […]
