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Finance : This guide explains why senior travellers should review travel insurance coverage, organise medical records, and plan ahead before...
Finance : The article explains how local Indian phone numbers enhance credibility and accessibility for international businesses. It highlig...
Finance : The article explains how borrowing within your affordability and understanding total loan costs can make loan management easier. I...
Finance : The article examines how ATMs are facing cash shortages even though currency circulation is at an all-time high. It argues that ba...
Finance : mployers are increasingly migrating retirement savings from superannuation trusts to NPS due to lower costs, greater flexibility, ...
Finance : The Government has exempted interest and capital gains earned by FPIs on Government securities from income tax with effect from 1 ...
Finance : The Ministry of Finance has introduced a unified portal to help individuals search for unclaimed bank deposits, insurance claims, ...
Finance : The IFSCA clarified that retrocession and retention requirements apply to the entire gross reinsurance premium of IFSC Insurance O...
Finance : The authority observed that except life insurance, other insurance segments under IFSCA regulations align with the statutory defin...
Finance : The Ministry of Finance clarified that claims regarding monetisation of temple gold holdings or issuance of gold bonds to temples ...
Finance : The Supreme Court ruled that vicarious liability under the NI Act cannot arise solely from holding an office in a society or compa...
Finance : The Supreme Court refused relief to borrowers who defaulted from the very first instalment after availing an ₹8.09 crore loan. T...
Finance : The Supreme Court upheld a Will executed in favour of the testator’s sister despite objections from his wife and children. The C...
Finance : The Supreme Court held that insolvency proceedings under the IBC cannot be invoked merely to recover disputed dues arising from co...
Finance : The issue was whether indemnity obligations arise only after final appellate confirmation. The Supreme Court held that liability a...
Finance : IFSCA clarified that a common brand name by itself is sufficient to establish a Group Entity relationship under the ship leasing f...
Finance : IFSCA has consolidated multiple regulations and circulars into a single Master Circular for Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporati...
Finance : IFSCA has introduced a standardized ACAR and ACAC reporting framework for Capital Market Intermediaries in IFSCs. The circular aim...
Finance : IFSCA has warned regulated entities that advanced AI models can accelerate cyberattacks by rapidly identifying and exploiting vuln...
Finance : The International Financial Services Centres Authority clarified that existing ASPs and TechFin entities continuing operations und...
Money managers, who have historically used dividends as a ploy to lure investors to tax-saving stock funds, are shying away from payouts this year, as a savage share market decline limits distributable surplus. Only seven tax funds have announced dividends in 2008/09, compared to 20 last year. The March quarter, which typically sees hectic activity […]
The era of qualified company accounts is about to close. Companies will have to restate their financial statements if auditors raise objections to any figure in annual accounts, if the government accepts a proposed recommendation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). Annual reports would contain financial statements that fully satisfy the auditor’s […]
Government-backed bonds have traditionally attracted conservative investors. But fixed deposits took the sheen away from them last year after banks offered between 10 and 11 per cent yields. However, with fixed deposit rates coming down, the trend seems to be reversing. India Infrastructure Finance Company, for instance, is targeting retail investors for a Rs 2,600 […]
The solution will enable the bank to monitor any suspicious transfer of money, including terror financing State Bank of India (SBI) has announced that it has deployed a solution to prevent money laundering across its group companies and six associate banks. The solution has been deployed by 3i Infotech in compliance with the orders of […]
Your attention is drawn to the new Procedure for appointment of Branch Statutory Auditors in Public Sector Banks for the year 2008-09 already hosted on the website. It is an open invitation to all those Chartered Accountants/ CA firms which have been conducting audits as bank branch auditors since 2004-05 onwards continuously. In case they […]
All public sector banks may need to take CBI’s clearance before allowing one-time settlement of bad loans by customers under a new direction likely to be issued by the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) soon. The circular, the proposal for which was mooted by CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) will ask all the banks to seek […]
Companies which commit criminal offence can be prosecuted and sentenced to fine, though they cannot be sent to jail as they are only juristic persons. This principle was reiterated by the Supreme Court in the case, Ballarpur Industries Ltd Vs State of Tamil Nadu.
1. What is a trade mark? A trade mark (popularly known as brand name) in layman’s language is a visual symbol which may be a word signature, name, device, label, numerals or combination of colours used by one undertaking on goods or services or other articles of commerce to distinguish it from other similar goods […]
The finance ministry has agreed on a one-year moratorium on repayment of term loans taken by textile units for technology upgrade. The move will benefit domestic textile manufacturers, which are facing falling profitability due to slowing demand for their products. “The department of financial services and finance secretary (Arun Ramanathan) have agreed to loosen the […]
In a bid to overcome the menace of home loan frauds, the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) proposes to set up a committee to work out the modalities for establishing a central electronic registry that will list all mortgages created by deposit of title/sale deeds with banks.
