Bitcoin is talk of town these days. On one hand, some countries like Japan, China and Australia have begun weighing regulations, while on the other, the Reserve Bank of India cautioned the general public, those users or traders of virtual currencies are doing so at their own risk. RBI in its press releases in 2013…
Where exports made under the Duty Drawback Scheme and such bill remain outstanding beyond the prescribed time limit, the exporter needs to submit a negative statement/certificate to the nodal officer of Department of Excise and Customs on a 6 monthly basis. The negative statement /certificate will be issued either by the authorized dealer (AD) bank(s)…
(This article explains the meaning of contract of Indemnity; features of Indemnity Contract, rights and duties of indemnity holder.) Definition of contract of indemnity: Section 124 of contract Acts defines contract of indemnity as “a contract by which one party promises to save the other from loss caused to him by the conduct of the…
Registration of a partnership firm is not compulsory under law. However, the registration gives the firm a legal status. Section 69 makes claims arising out of a contract unenforceable if the firm is unregistered at the date of the institution of the suit. Thus, the major drawback of the non-registered partnership firm is that it…
Registration of a partnership firm is not compulsory under law. It is left to the partners of the firm to register their firm or not. However,the advantages of registration of a partnership firm are that the registered firm offers an irrefutable legal proof of the existence partnership and the composition of partners, their address,…
Demand loan is a form of short term fiance provided by the banks to their customers. Unlike term loans where loans are granted on a fixed tenure and that shall be repaid in installments as per terms and conditions of the sanction, the demand loans work on the specific demand of the lender.In the other…
There are different types of bank borrowers. They may be classified as individuals, partnership firms, private limited, public limited companies, large corporate, public sector undertakings, multinational companies etc. The financial and non-financial credit facilities required to the above customers are many. We can divide them in to retail borrowers and corporate borrowers. Retail Borrowers: The…
(This posts elucidates different types of credit facilities extended by the banks) You may be aware that banks lend various types of credit facilities to their customers viz.Demand Loans, consumer loans, home loans, education loans, term lending, working capital finance, export credit, Bank Guarantee, Letter of credit, etc. Bank finance to their customers is not…
There are two basic types of loans granted by lenders namely Secured and Unsecured loans. The secured loans are those loans which are granted by the lenders taking security from the borrower against the loan. The security may be prime security or collateral security.Prime security is an asset acquired by a borrower under a loan…
At present, the Asset Reconstruction companies viz. the Securitization Companies / Reconstruction Companies (SC/RCs) are permitted to convert a portion of debt into shares of the borrower company as a measure of asset reconstruction subject to a condition that their shareholding does not exceed 26% of the post converted equity of the company under reconstruction.…