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MEAL vouchers and prepaid cards have come under the regulatory scanner. In an attempt to check possible moneylaundering, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed that only banks and finance companies be allowed to issue prepaid cards which are accepted outside a closed group. This means that issuers who are neither banks nor finance companies will have to restrict card issuance to a closed group.
Following are the highlights of the mid-term review of India’s monetary policy conducted by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D. Subbarao Friday: – Bank rate, repo rate and reverse repo rate kept unchanged , Flexibility retained to conduct overnight auctions of securities. Cash reserve ratio kept unchanged at 6.5 per cent. Floating rate bonds to be issued at appropriate time. Interest rate futures contracts to be launched in early 2009.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has capped fees charged by banks for electronic payment (e-payment) and collection of outstation cheques. The move is aimed at popularising electronic payments and discouraging higher charges levied by banks on customers.
RBI/2008-09/ 219DBOD.No.BP.BC. 58 /21.04.048/2008- 09 – It has come to our notice that in view of somewhat tight liquidity conditions in the domestic markets in the recent past, some of the banks have been averse to disbursing working capital limits and term loans (including short-term loans) to their clients against the sanctioned limits even in cases where the drawing power is available in the client’s account and all the terms and conditions of the sanction of the loan stand complied with.
The Reserve Bank of India has set a limit for maximum transaction per day through mobile phones. A customer can, now, transect Rs 2,500 to a maximum of Rs 5,000 in a day. Customers must have access to a debit or credit card to avail mobile banking. Many Indian leading banks are providing mobile banking in the country. The banks need to inform RBI about the services they are providing thru mobile phones. The new guidelines, in this regard, are issued by the apex bank on Friday.
After advising banks to display information regarding interest rates and service charges on the notice board inside their all the branches, now the central bank has asked them to do the same thing on their website. For the purpose, RBI has also issued a format in which the bank should display the information on their websites.
With a view to liberalizing the procedure further, it has been decided to raise the limit of USD 100,000 for advance remittance for alladmissible current account transactions for import of services without bank guarantee to USD 500,000 or its equivalent. AD Category – I banks may frame their own guidelines to deal with such cases as per the policy approved by the bank’s Board of Directors. RBI/2008-09/ 158 ,A.P.(DIR Series) Circular No. 15, September 08, 2008
The Reserve Bank of India has asked small non banking financial companies (NBFCs) to curtail their public deposits. In a notification put out on Monday, the RBI has tightened the rules governing access to such public deposits. It said that NBFCs with a net owned fund (NoF) of between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 2 crore, must limit their public deposits to the level of their net owned funds as against the current ceiling of 1.5 times the net owned funds.
Reserve Bank has been receiving representations from Exporters / Trade bodies to extend the period of realisation of export proceeds in view of the external environment. It has, therefore, been, in consultation with Government of India, announced in the Annual Policy Statement for the Year 2008-09 (para 134) to enhance the present period of realization and repatriation to India of the amount representing the full export value of goods or software exported, from six months to twelve months from the date of export, subject to review after one year.
DEPB Scheme Extended Till May 2009. Income Tax Benefit To 100% EOUs Under Section 10-B Of It Act Being Extended For One Year Beyond 31stmarch 2009. New Export Promotion Council For Telecom Sector . 5% Additional Duty Credit For Export Of Toys And Sports Goods
