Credit monitoring strategies in a bank taking place in two stages namely pre-sanction stage and post sanction stage of loans and advances. Pre-sanction process involves identification of borrower, the purpose of the loan, quantum of loan, period of loan, source of repayment, security for advance, profitability, pre-sanction unit inspection, appraisal of credit proposal, and sanctioning…
LIBOR is the acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate. The ‘LIBOR’ serves as the key benchmark rate in calculating interest rates on various loans across the world. Each morning before 11 a.m. (GMT), the sets of major banks that have a significant presence in the London market are asked the rate at which they could…
MIBOR stands acronym for ‘Mumbai Inter- bank Outright Rate’, the benchmark of the Indian call money market. It is the rate at which banks borrow unsecured funds from one another in the inter bank market. The bid rate on how much interest banks would pay to borrow money on a short-term basis from other institutions…
A strategic alliance is an agreement between two or more independent organizations that agree to share resources to undertake a specific, mutually beneficial objective. The strategic alliance is akin to partnership project, the relation fall short of legally banded partnership. The agreement may be formal or informal in nature, but each party’s responsibilities must be…
A depository receipt or depositary receipt (DR) is a negotiable financial instrument that represents a foreign company’s (issuing company which is incorporated outside India) publicly traded debt or equity in domestic exchanges. The depository receipts (DRs) which are created by a Domestic Depository bank against the underlying equity shares of the issuing company are termed…
P-Notes or PNs are acronym to Participatory Notes. These instruments are issued to overseas buyers by the foreign institutional investors (FII) who are registered with SEBI. These notes are actually Overseas Derivative Instruments that have Indian stocks as their underlying assets. The foreign institutional investors (FII) who have registered with SEBI issue these instruments to…
Scheduled Commercial Banks in India are those banks which are included in the second schedule to Reserve Bank of India Acts 1934. Scheduled Commercial Banks in India are categorised in five different groups according to their ownership and/or nature of operation. These bank groups are: (i) State Bank of India (ii) Nationalised Banks, (iii) Regional…
The Banking Regulation Act, 1949 is legislation in India that regulates all banking firms in India. Initially, the law was applicable only to banking companies. But, 1965 it was amended to make it applicable to cooperative banks. Some of the important sections of banking regulation acts 1949 are as under. Section 5(b) of the Banking…
A registrar is the SEBI approved entity, usually a bank or trust company. The Registrar to issue process share and debenture allocation. Further, the Registrar keeps the records of bondholders and shareholders when the issuer sells securities to the public. Click below to know; Who are Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)? What is Universal Banking?…
Stock Exchange: A stock exchange is an organized and regulated financial market where securities (bonds, derivatives, shares) are bought and sold on behalf of the investors at prices governed by the demand and supply for the specific stock. The Stock exchanges provide clearing house facilities for netting payments and securities delivery. The Clearinghouse guarantees all…