Reserve Bank of India constituted a working group on digital lending on January 13, 2021 to study digital lending activities undertaken by both regulated financial sector and unregulated players to develop a regulatory approach for easy working. Its report running 151 pages is now available. It has 5 sections with the following broad contour. Section […]
We have heard of institutions dealing with government securities at various stages and many retailers wanted to invest or trade in them. RBI heard the requests of retailers and has come out with the following scheme, just yesterday. Let us learn the epoch- making development in detail. The highlights of the ‘RBI Retail Direct’ scheme […]
Prime Minister of India and other dignitaries are having a conference on climate change, a broadly classified subject which has ushered in sudden cloud burst in Himalayas in India, regular fire in Hollywood and other places with million dollars houses or knee- deep water in Belgium, and other places around our mother earth at Glasgow, […]
With the declaration of final tax system reformation on 10th August 2021, by 136 countries and jurisdictions representing 90% of global GDP, you may be happy to know that Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) will be subject to a minimum 15% tax rate from 2023 and that this deal would embark on distribution of US D 125 […]
Address by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the National Academy of Audit and Accounts (NAAA), Shimla on October 25, 2021 is the motivation for this article. His speech is available in RBI website. Though I have covered major part of his speech, enough input on the necessity of audit, the procedure […]
With the incremental and intuitive development of digital use, banking and other financial sectors have taken primary role and one gets a local company to become a unicorn with billion-dollar performance. How does fin-tech products transform or intend to revolutionize Indian atmosphere? RBI deputy governor Shri T Rabi Sankar, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India […]
I am privileged to cover a news item from Times of India dated 24th September 2021 on release of latest digital Indian Sign language dictionary by our respected Prime Minister earlier this month. This throws more light on the far reach of the economy which has not done much to explain in sign language its […]
It is time to hear, learn and use Clearing Corporation of India updates which are of world class standards to increase streams of income from various channels so far unheard by us. It was set up in 2001 to provide guaranteed clearing and settlement functions for transactions in money, G-secs, foreign exchange, and derivative markets. […]
To enforce India and Singapore to link their Fast Payment Systems – Unified Payments Interface and Pay Now, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced a project to link their respective fast payment systems. The linkage is targeted for operation by July 2022. The details are available in […]
The search for an alternate fuel is not a new venture and many countries have attempted to use methanol in some proportion or other with regular petrol to reduce the cost of petrol which is inherently connected with the day to day living of a human being on earth. Niti Aayog analyzed the issue in […]