Today, the government has hiked the interest rates of small savings schemes by up to 70 bps (One percentage point is equivalent to 100 basis points.) for the April-June 2023 quarter. The latest chart of interest for small savings instruments for the Q1 (April 1 to June 30) of 2023 is as under. Scheme Rate…
In a statement issued on Wednesday, NPCI said that as per recent regulatory guidelines, PPI wallets have been permitted to be part of the interoperable UPI ecosystem. As per the circular issued on March 24, the changes of the 1.1% fee on UPI wallet transactions above Rs 2,000 will come into effect from April 1,…
The assessment Letter of Credit, Bank Guarantee (BG), or Letter of Guarantee (LG) limits are fixed by banks based on the annual consumption of raw materials to be purchased against the Letter of Credit or Letter of Guarantee (Bank Guarantee). Ascertain from the customer the requirement of Consumption of Material (CM) per annum, which is to be…
[This article elucidates methods and techniques used to analyze profit and loss statements, the Format of the operative statement, the meaning of gross profit, operating profit and net profit, depreciation, amortization, etc.] The profit and loss (P&L) statements are one of three financial statements that every public company issues quarterly and annually, along with the…
Joint accounts are accounts that are in the name of two or more persons. The operation instructions in joint accounts in banks like ‘either or survivor’, former/latter or survivor’, ‘anyone or survivor’, ‘both or survivor’, or ‘all or survivor’ are actually a mandate given by the joint holders of the account. Every above operation instructions…
On Friday, the government amended the mutual fund rules in Finance Bill 2023, wherein debt mutual fund investors will no longer receive a tax benefit on long-term capital gains after April 1. The change in the tax treatment on debt mutual funds comes into effect after the Lok Sabha passed the Finance Bill 2023 on…
A savings /fixed / recurring bank deposit account can be opened by a minor of any age through his/her natural or legally appointed guardian. Banks in India have the freedom to fix the minimum age at which they will allow a minor to operate his account in a single name. As a result, a minor…
RBI on Tuesday notified that all government transactions done by agency banks for 2022-23 must be accounted for within the same financial year. All agency banks should keep their designated branches open for over the counter transactions related to government transactions upto the normal working hours on March 31, 2023, said RBI. It further said…
The depositors of all Banks including branches of foreign banks functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks, and all State, Central, and Primary cooperative banks,(also called urban cooperative banks) are protected under the deposit insurance scheme of DICGC. The DICGC insures principal and interest up to a maximum amount of five lakhs.…
Banks extend export credits to their customers in two stages viz. (i) pre-shipment stage and (ii) post-shipment stage. The first stage of the loan is the pre-shipment stage where the loan is released for procuring, Packing processing (where necessary), manufacturing, and finally for packing of goods. The loans and advances so provided by the banks,…