Leasing Finance: A lease is a contract between the owner (lessor) and the user (lessee). There are various types of lease viz. operating lease, finance lease, etc. In terms of lease agreement, the lessor pays money to the supplier who in turn delivers the article to the lessee. The lessee (hirer of the article) makes…
Bills finance is short term and self- liquidating finance in nature. Demand Bills are purchased and Usance bills are discounted and the bills drawn under Letter of Credit (LC may be on sight draft or usance draft) are negotiated by the banks. The advantage of bills finance is that the seller of goods (borrower) gets immediate…
The Reserve Bank of India has recently launched National Mission for Capacity Building of Bankers for financing MSME sector (NAMCABS) for sensitizing and on imparting skills to bank officials. The main focus will be to up-skill 3 lakh banking personnel who have joined the system over the past six years and perhaps who have very…
Benefits of Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) over physical form of gold Today (October 3, 2015), the Government announced the issue price of Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) at Rs.2684/- per gram of gold. The SGB bonds are denominated in grams of gold to be issued on November 26, 2015 by RBI on behalf of Government of…
Liquidity risk arises when a bank fails to meet its contractual obligation in its daily operations due to non-receipt of adequate inflow of funds. If you call a bank is having adequate liquidity, it means that bank is in a position to efficiently discharge its financial obligations both at expected and unexpected short term financial…
RBI nicks rate by 50 BPS, The policy repo rate under LAF reduced to 6.75 per cent In the fourth bi-monthly monitory policy statement for 2015-16 (29.09.2015), RBI said that on the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to reduce the policy repo rate under the…
Traditionally, banks used to have two separate track approach for credit risks and market risks. The Asset –Liability Management Committee (ALCO) of the bank used to deal with various types of market risks whereas the Credit Policy Committee (CPC) continued taking care of credit/counterparty and country risks. However, in the recent years, as a result…
The shipping or airlines company incorporated outside India can open, hold and maintain non-interest bearing foreign currency account with AD category-I bank in India. The balance available in that type of foreign currency account can be used by Shipping or Airlines Company for the purpose of local expenses. The AD banks who open such foreign…
A Subsidiary company can be described as an enterprise, the management of which is controlled by a parent company. The parent company is one which has one or more subsidiaries. In all cases the parent company will hold more than half of the voting power of the subsidiary company and controls financial and operating policy…
RBI on September 16, 2015 granted in-principle approval to 10 entities to set up small finance banks. The in princile approval is valid for 18 months.The entities who got the permission are Ujjivan Financial Service (Bengaluru),Janalakshmi Financial Service ( Bengaluru) Au Financiers (Jaipur), Equitas Holdings (Chennai),Capital Local Area Bank (Punjab), Disha Microfin (Ahmedabad), ESAF Microfinance (Chennai), RGVN (North East)…
