The Reserve Bank of India announced today (02/07/2015) that the methodology for the FIMMDA-NSE-Overnight Mumbai Interbank Bid/Offer Rate (Overnight MIBID/MIBOR) benchmark will be revised from July 22, 2015. The newly constituted entity ‘The Financial Bench Marks India Pvt. Ltd (FBIL)’ is also stated that it is taking over the administration of the benchmark, replacing the…
The Reserve Bank of India has extended the date for the public to exchange their pre-2005 banknotes till December 31, 2015. The central bank had, in December 2014, set the last date for public to exchange of these notes as June 30, 2015.RBI further clarified that It is further clarified by the bank that the public…
The increasing incidences of frauds in general and in loan portfolios of banks in particular are the matter of serious concern to all stake holders. Unfortunately, most often banks even after identifying the frauds, take times to file complaints with CBI / Police on the grounds of cheating, misappropriation of funds, diversion of funds etc.…
The Government of India has provided additional relaxation for the purpose of address in addition to the relaxation in proof of identity under simplified measures of PML rules. Accordingly RBI has notified that the following additional documents are deemed to be Officially Valid Documents (OVD) for proof of address. Utility bill which is not more…
Reserve Bank on Monday (June 8, 2015) released Strategic Debt Restructuring scheme which paves way to ensure more ‘skin in the game’ of promoters. While unveiling the new scheme, RBI has invited reference to its circular dated Feb 26, 2014 on “Framework for Revitalising Distressed Assets in the Economy – Guidelines on Joint Lenders’ Forum…
The new medical reimbursement scheme scheme covers all the existing employees/officers in the bank service and same would also be continued beyond their retirement/superannuation/ resignation etc., subject to payment of stipulated premium by them. New recruits will be covered from their date of joining to the bank. The scheme also includes the benefit of cashless…
In the second bi-monthly monitory policy statement for 2015-16 (02.06.2015), RBI said that on the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to reduce Key policy rates by 25 basis points. reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points from…
The non-resident exchange houses from Gulf Countries, Hong Kong and Singapore open Rupee Vostro accounts in AD Category – I banks in India. The Vostro accounts can be used for channeling inward remittances to India primarily on private account. The remitter and the beneficiary (in most cases) should be individuals. The account can be used…
The representatives of the unions and IBA inked the BPS/Joint Note, thus ended the long drawn process of wage negotiation in the industry. The highlights of the 10th BPS/Joint Note signed are : Shifting the system of arriving at the wage load on Pay slip components instead of the earlier exercise of total overall load…
The Indian companies receiving Foreign Direct Invests (FDI) are subject to Regulations framed under FEMA Act 1999. FDI in India can be made through two routes 1.Automatic route where no prioror approval required from authorities. 2.Approval route where the company receiving FDI requires prior approval of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). Pursuant to the…