The word ‘money’ or cash is usually used by the common man for currency notes and coins. Apart from above said portable money (cash), we also use cheque demand drafts, debit cards, and credit cards as money equivalents. In a broader interpretation, money means not only notes and coins in circulation; it includes other monetary…
The Reserve Bank of India, on Thursday (June 20, 2019), communicated that the electronic trading platform for buying/selling foreign exchange (FX-Retail) by retail customers (individuals, MSMEs) of banks is ready for rollout. The FX-Retail platform can be accessed by retail customers of a bank (through the websitehttps://www.fxretail.co.in), who has a need to purchase or sell…
We often receive questions about tax liability of a person in case of any income that accrues or is paid to a minor. Whether it is the minor’s own tax liability or the income of the minor should be clubbed with his father’s income or his mother’s income or the income should be divided into…
Today (19.06.2019), leaders of UFBU unions had wage settlement discussion with IBA. The officers associations AIBOC and NOBO did not participate in the meeting. In the absence of major officers associations, IBA asked Award Staff Unions to continue the discussion. The following are the points discussed. UFBU discussed about mandate issue up to Scale 7…
Securitization is the process in which certain types of assets are pooled so that they can be repackaged into interest-bearing securities. The interest and principal payments from the assets are passed through to the purchasers of the securities.Both Asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are fixed-income financial securities collateralized (backed) by a pool of…
Currency Boards have been set up by many economies, big and small across the globe. A currency board is a country’s monetary authority (in India we do not have currency board, RBI issues currency notes), which is basically entrusted with the responsibility of issuing currency notes and coins. The currency board also takes decisions about…
In our previous article we have explained about the Reverse Mortgage Loan (RML) Scheme, which offers regular income to senior citizen against pledging of their home with the lender. However, the RML product has not met with much success, because the scheme is not as supportive as expected to old age people. This is for…
The assessment of fund based working capital limit for MSME units requiring fund based working capital limits upto Rs.5.00 crore and for others up to Rs.2.00 crore from the banking system may be on the basis of the Turnover method (Nayak Committee norms). As the earlier instruction regarding Maximum Permissible Bank Finance (MPBF), based on…
Devaluation of a currency means the official lowering of value of a country’s currency within a fixed exchange rate system. In devaluation, the monetary authority of the country deliberately make downward adjustment of the value of a country’s money and sets a new fixed rate with respect to a foreign reference currency (currency of other…
In the light of Hon’ble Supreme Court order dated April 2, 2019, which held the RBI circular dated February 12, 2018 on Resolution of Stressed Assets as ultra vires, the Reserve Bank of India on Friday (June 7, 2019) released fresh guidelines to deal with bad loans. The new directions shall be called the ‘Reserve…