In today’s Statement on developmental and regulatory policies, RBI said that it would set up a centralised portal to access details of unclaimed deposits by depositors or their beneficiaries across various banks. The overdue deposits or balances held in inoperative accounts remaining unclaimed for 10 years are transferred to the “Depositor Education and Awareness” (DEA)…
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a robust payments platform supporting an array of features. Presently it handles 75% of the retail digital payments volume in India. According to the RBI statement, UPI is the single largest retail payment system in the country in terms of volume of transactions. In terms of volume, the number of…
The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by RBI Governor on Wednesday (April 6, 2023) decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50%. Reserve Bank projected India’s GDP growth forecast raised to 6.5% from the previous 6.4 percent for 2023-24. The present policy rates can still be regarded as accommodative, the statement said.…