Uniform working hours of banks in 4 states

Working hours of all branches in Karnataka State, Odisha State, Telangana State and Delhi is fixed as 10.00am to 4.00pm from 01.10.2019 as per Department of financial services DFS and SLBC instructions. Private Banks were also requested to formulate their working hours accordingly. The above move is aimed at removing all the discrepancies in the…

ETHICS IN BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Principles of Trust: The Principles of trust are Integrity, security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy. It inspires customers, investors, regulators, and lenders to feel confident about bankers, banking products, and banking organisations. Principle of neutrality: Not to differentiate between employees (internal customers) and customers. No bias in behaviour. Principles of reliability: The reliability principle in banking…

What are Cyber Threats of different types?

A cyber threat or cyber-security threat is a malicious act that generally hunts for damaging data, steals data or disrupts digital life. The perpetrators of these attacks are organized crime groups, terrorists, industrial spies, unhappy insiders, business competitors, hackers, and Nation-states* (*where a Government trying to learn other countries’ national secrets and critical infrastructure like…

Understanding Patents and Intellectual Property Rights

An Intellectual property right is the right of a person or company to use their inventions, or ideas through patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets without the worry of competition at least for a specified period. The invention may be the inventor’s creativity, concepts, architectural designs, industrial models, songs, literature, symbols, names, brands, etc. The…

Whistle-blowing in Banks explained

The banks are financial institutions licensed to receive deposits and make loans. Apart from collecting deposits and lending banks are handling cash transactions, Ancillary Services to their customers. To gain the confidence of customers’ banks need to maintain the highest standards of honest and ethical conduct in the course of all their operations. Although profitability…