Reserve Bank has today released guidelines on tokenisation for debit / credit / prepaid card transactions as a part of its continuous endeavour to enhance the safety and security of the payment systems in the country. Tokenisation involves a process in which an unique token masks sensitive card details.
With a view to encourage digitisation of payments and enhance financial inclusion through digitisation, the Reserve Bank of India has decided to constitute a High-Level Committee on Deepening of Digital Payments. The composition of the Committee is as under:
It has been decided to permit a one-time restructuring of existing loans to MSMEs classified as ‘standard’ without a downgrade in the asset classification, subject to the following conditions:
As decided by the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its meeting held on November 19, 2018, the RBI, in consultation with the Government of India, has today constituted an Expert Committee to review the extant Economic Capital Framework of the RBI. The composition of the Committee is as under:
Amendment of section 50 of the CGST Act to provide that interest should be charged only on the net tax liability of the taxpayer, after taking into account the admissible input tax credit, i.e. interest would be leviable only on the amount payable through the electronic cash ledger.
Reserve Bank of India today placed on its website a Working Paper titled Measuring Financial Capability of the Street Vendors under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series*. The Paper is authored by D.V. Ramana and Silu Muduli.
Securities and Exchange Board of India SEBI Board Meeting PR No. 51/2018 The SEBI Board met in Mumbai today and took the following decisions: I. Creation of Segregated Portfolio by Mutual Funds The Board noted the proposal to allow Mutual Funds to create Segregated Portfolios with respect to debt and money market instruments subject to […]
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to Keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.5 per cent. Consequently, the reverse repo rate under the LAF remains at 6.25 per cent, and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate at 6.75 per cent.
Use of external benchmarks by banks for their floating rate loans instead of the present system of internal benchmarks [Prime Lending Rate (PLR), Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR), Base rate and Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR)].
Submission of Report of the Expert Committee for listing of equity shares of companies incorporated in India on foreign stock exchanges and vice versa
