Contrary to the expectations of small investors in a rising interest environment, the government has decided to keep the small savings interest rates unchanged for the July to September quarter. This is the ninth quarter in a row that small savings interest rates have not changed. New investments made during the second quarter of FY…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday extended the deadline for card-on-file (CoF) tokenisation by another three months to September 30 as transaction processing based on such tokens is yet to gain traction across categories of merchants. “…it has been decided to extend the timeline for storing of CoF data by three months, i.e.,…
The Take-home salary, contribution to Employees’ Provident Fund and working hours could change significantly as the Centre plans to implement new labour laws from July 1. The Indian parliament has passed the four labour codes — wages, social security, industrial relations, occupational safety, health and working conditions. These codes were created by subsuming 29 Central…
Edited on 23.06.2022 In the recent Monthly Economic review, the finance ministry struck a note of caution on the twin deficit problem. Many of our readers like to know about the twin deficit problem. Whenever a country faces an increased fiscal deficit and current account deficit at the same time, it is known as the…
The Reserve Bank of India vide circular dated April 21, 2022, had issued master directions for credit and debit card issuance in the year 2022. These guidelines apply to banks excluding payment banks, state co-operative banks, and district central co-operative banks. Also, all NBFCs operating in India should follow the new norms of card issuance…
The issue of the 2022-23 Series I of the Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) scheme 2022-23 is open for subscription from June 20, 2022 – to June 24, 2022. The nominal value of the bond is based on the simple average closing price [published by the India Bullion and Jewellers Association Ltd (IBJA)] for gold of…
“There is no proposal on neo-banks or digital banks because we feel that the existing banks and NBFCs can adopt more and more technology for delivery of banking services.” said Shaktikanta Das while delivering a speech at the Financial Express Modern BFSI Summit in Mumbai on June 17, 2022.”The theme of my address “Disruptions &…
RBI on Thursday lifted the restrictions imposed on Mastercard Asia / Pacific Pte. Ltd, vide order dated July 14, 2021, from immediate effect. Last year on July 14, 2021, the regulator imposed restrictions on Mastercard from onboarding new domestic customers including debit, credit, or prepaid onto its card network for non-compliance with the RBI circular…
RBI on Tuesday said that Banks fail to observe its directions in letter and spirit while financing Government-owned entities. As per RBI Master Directions, Banks should not grant finance for the construction of buildings meant purely for Government/Semi-Government offices, including Municipal and Panchayat offices. However, banks may grant loans for activities, which will be refinanced…
In my previous post ‘how to get down to the redevelopment project of a housing society building,’ I explained what are all the precautions to be taken by the Society and its members before entering into an agreement with the builders/developers and what are all the important clauses to be included in the agreement. In…