In the payment space, third-party service providers are primarily in the form of TPAPs, Payment gateways, and Payment aggregators. Presently, around 200 crore UPI transactions are undertaken each month out of which a sizeable share are originated through the Third Party Application Providers (TPAPs). In the financial space, third-party apps are often connected to a…
Edited and re-posted on 19.05.2021: Prepaid cards also known as virtual cards. They are issued by the banks and non-bank entities against the value paid in advance by the cardholder. As per RBI’s circular dated May 19, 2021, it shall be mandatory for PPI issuers to give the holders of full-KYC PPIs (KYC-compliant PPIs) interoperability…
The resident Indians (individuals, HUFs, Trusts, Universities, Charitable institutions, etc.,) as defined under FEMA Act 1999 are eligible to invest both in a single name or joint name. In the case of joint names, the buying limit applies to the first applicant. The bonds can also be purchased in the minor’s name. Though the tenor…
The Employees’ Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (EDLI) is an insurance cover provided by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO). The government of India has introduced the Employees Deposit Linked Insurance Scheme (EDLI) in 1976 to help the employees particularly keeping in mind the private-sector employees who may not enjoy any social security benefits as normally…
Above and beyond, normal channels of remittance to India from cross-borders(abroad), there are two more channels for receiving inward remittances, viz. Rupee Drawing Arrangement (RDA) and Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) which are the most common arrangements under which the remittances are received into our country. Rupee Drawing Arrangement (RDA) is a way of transferring…
Above and beyond, normal channels of remittance to India from cross-borders (overseas jurisdiction), there are two more channels for receiving inward remittances, viz. Rupee Drawing Arrangement (RDA) and Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) are the most common arrangements under which the remittances are received into India. Money Transfer Service Scheme (MTSS) is the most common…
ISO 20022 (pronounced ‘ISO twenty-oh-twenty-two’) or Universal financial industry message scheme (also called” UNIFI”) is a global standard for exchanging electronic messages between financial institutions. The ISO 20022 standard covers financial information transferred between financial institutions that include payment transactions, securities trading, and settlement information, credit as well as debit card transactions, Foreign Exchange transactions,…
All the banks are advised to calculate the interest payable on interest bearing deposits transferred to RBI at the rate of 3 percent per year with effect from May 11, 2021 till the time of payment to the depositor/claimant. The interest rate was 4 per cent p.a. up to June 30, 2018, and 3.5 per…
The audit is classified into many different types and levels of assurance according to the objectives, scopes, purposes, and procedures of how auditing is performed. The financial statement auditing is done normally in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (ISA) as well as other local auditing standards. An operational audit involves checking the efficiency of…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday announced that banks are allowed to utilise100 per cent of floating provisions/counter-cyclical provisioning buffer for making specific provisions for non-performing assets. RBI in its circular dated May 5, 2021 stated that “In order to mitigate the adverse impact of COVID 19 related stress on…