Fema / RBI : Understand DICGCs role in insuring bank deposits up to ₹5 lakh. Learn about compliance requirements, premium calculations, and p...
Fema / RBI : RBI cautions banks and NBFCs on non-compliance with regulatory standards, highlighting risks associated with rapid home equity loa...
CA, CS, CMA : Highlights from August 5-11, 2024: Income Tax exemptions, GST updates, SEBI guidelines, and RBI monetary policy changes....
Fema / RBI : RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.5%, projects 7.2% GDP growth for 2024-25. Introduces public depository for digital lending apps...
Fema / RBI : RBIs August 2024 meeting keeps repo and SDF rates unchanged. Focus on reducing inflation and enhancing credit reporting. Impact on...
Fema / RBI : Details on penalties for not maintaining AMB in savings accounts, criteria for calculation, and government's stance on rationalizi...
Fema / RBI : Discover RBI's third global hackathon, 'HaRBInger 2024 - Innovation for Transformation,' aimed at enhancing India's financial land...
Fema / RBI : The ability for cardholders to determine their billing cycle signifies that credit cards are not merely tools for cashless transac...
Fema / RBI : Explore FAQs on Credit Card Issuance, Activation, Usage, and Complaints. Understand rules, rights, and procedures in the Master Di...
Fema / RBI : Discover exponential growth of UPI transactions in India, from Rs. 1 lakh crore in FY 2017-18 to Rs. 139 lakh crore in FY 2022-23....
Fema / RBI : RBI directs NBFCs to adhere to a Rs 20,000 cash loan disbursement limit, aiming to regulate cash transactions and enforce complian...
Corporate Law : Unraveling the NCLAT Chennai verdict in the GVK Energy Vs Axis Bank case, underscoring the supremacy of IBC over RBI's directions ...
Company Law : Reserve Bank of India Vs Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited (NCLT Kolkata) 1. The Court convened via video conferencing. 2. This ...
Fema / RBI : Supreme Court mandates strict procedures for bank lockers. Ensure compliance, notify changes, maintain records. Judgment details i...
Fema / RBI : In re Cognizance for Extension of Limitation (Supreme Court) With reference to the prayer, that the period of validity of a cheque...
Fema / RBI : RBI revises risk weights for Housing Finance Companies, capping undisbursed loan risk weights and adjusting risk weights for comme...
Fema / RBI : RBI revises regulations for HFCs and NBFCs, harmonizing deposit acceptance norms and enhancing liquidity requirements as of August...
Fema / RBI : RBI's new PCA Framework for Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs), effective April 2025, revises supervisory actions. Key changes and im...
Fema / RBI : RBI releases draft circular on Basel III LCR, proposing new haircuts on HQLA and revised run-off rates for certain deposits. Stake...
Fema / RBI : RBI revises Domestic Money Transfer guidelines, effective Nov 1, 2024, with new KYC, transaction validation, and compliance requir...
In the foreseeable future, we will bring formal financial services to every Indian who wants them. Financial inclusion will be an important element in ensuring access and equity – the necessary building blocks for sustainable growth of our country.” Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan said this today while speaking at the National Seminar on Equity, Access and Inclusion organised by National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj in Hyderabad.
Q 1. What is an EEFC Account and what are its benefits? Ans. Exchange Earners’ Foreign Currency Account (EEFC) is an account maintained in foreign currency with an Authorised Dealer Category – I bank i.e. a bank authorized to deal in foreign exchange. It is a facility provided to the foreign exchange earners, including exporters, […]
Since 2012-13, all segments of electronic payments, particularly retail electronic payments, have shown healthy growth both in terms of volume and value of usage. For example, RTGS and NEFT volumes increased almost threefold between 2013 and 2016 reflecting greater adoption of the system by all segments of users.
Today, however, I want to talk about the resolution of financial distress. I will argue that the slowdown in credit growth has been largely because of stress in the public sector banking and not because of high interest rates. As such, what is required is a clean-up of the balance sheets of public sector banks, which is what is underway and needs to be taken to its logical conclusion.
As the name suggests Corporate Debt Restructuring refers to the restructuring i.e. alteration of the Corporate Debts which generally may involve the alteration of re-payment period, amount repayable, amount of installment or the interest rate etc.
The Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website the Discussion Paper (DP) on Framework for enhancing Credit Supply for Large Borrowers through Market Mechanism. Absence of an overarching ceiling on total bank borrowing by a corporate entity from the banking system has resulted in banks collectively having very high exposures to some of the large corporates in India.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a Charter of Customer Rights, which enshrines broad, overarching principles for protection of bank customers and enunciates the ‘five’ basic rights for bank customers, that I s, (i) Right to Fair Treatment, (ii) Right to Transparency, Fair and Honest Dealing, (iii) Right to Suitability, (iv) Right to Privacy, and (v) Right to Grievance Redress and Compensation.
Derivatives are an integral risk management tool for most of the business entities and financial institutions. Most of the bigger and mid-size companies in India use derivatives to manage foreign currency, interest rate and commodity price risks. Derivatives foster financial innovation and contribute to the completeness of financial markets.
In India, the debate on ‘potential growth and output gap’ has been intensified due to revision in the GDP estimates with change in base year and its underlying methodology. This paper provides the estimates of potential growth and output gap, for the first time in India, on a quarterly basis using production function approach in addition to revisiting the estimates of potential output by conventional statistical methods for the period 1980Q2 – 2015Q4.
In common parlance, a Payment gateway is an online platform which facilitates acceptance of payments electronically through various available options like credit card, debit card , bank transfer and real-time bank transfer based on online banking. The role of payment gateway in facilitation of payment acceptance online makes them an essential element of the e-commerce industry. These are growing and emerging along with the e-commerce industry. (Example: Paypal, Directpay, Alert pay, CCAvenue, PayUMoney etc.).