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Fema / RBI : The appellant claimed the disputed funds were received unknowingly and had attempted to return them. The Tribunal granted relief b...
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Fema / RBI : RBI has issued draft amendment directions to harmonise governance standards for risk management, compliance, and internal audit fu...
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In modification of our instructions dated May 06, 2009, well managed and financially sound Uni-state Tier II UCBs satisfying the norms at a) to f) above, will be permitted to extend their area of operations to the entire State of registration.
Further, the path to access the directory of the scheduled commercial banks given in Annex-I of the above mentioned circular is changed and therefore, the revised access path to generate the report on the Directory of AD Category branches is given in the Annex-II. The path to access the Application Software package is given in Annex I. In case of any assistance / clarification, AD banks may communicate by e-mail.
In the Second Quarter Review of Monetary Policy of the Reserve Bank of India for the Year 2010-11, it was announced that Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) would be allowed current account and SGL account with the Reserve Bank as also membership of INFINET and RTGS. The relevant paragraph of the Review is reproduced below.
If you fail to carry out any transaction for 24 months through your bank account, it can be frozen. This is in line with the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) mandate, that a bank account automatically gets classified as inoperative or dormant if there a
The modification of the previous directive referred to in this directive shall not in any manner whatsoever affect any action taken by the Reserve Bank under the previous directive and shall not absolve any primary cooperative bank from its liability in respect of any contravention of or any non compliance with the provisions of the said directive.
The above limits of credit exposure to housing, real estate and commercial real estate would be applicable from the date of this circular. UCBs having exposure in excess of the above limits may initiate steps to align their exposure to the revised limits within a period of six months from the date of this circular.
Accordingly, it has been decided to exempt UCBs, which maintain capital to risk-weighted assets ratio (CRAR) of 12 per cent or above on a continuous basis, from the extant mandatory share linking norms. This exemption would be effective from the date of this circular.
xclusion from the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 – The Bank of Rajasthan Limited We advise that the name of “The Bank of Rajasthan Limited” has been excluded from the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 by notification DBOD.No.PSBD/2866/16.01.056/2010-11 dated August 18, 2010.
The Supreme Court (SC) has clarified the nominee of a depositor in a bank does not get ownership of the money in the account after death of the depositor. The nominee gets exclusive right to receive the money lying in the account. It gives him all th
Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn today expressed concern over the sharp fall in factory output growth, saying the latest numbers are disconcerting. However, he was quick to add that the other key indicators such as the corporate earnings and
