The core business of a bank is to accept deposits from the public for the purpose of lending and investment. The Section 5(b) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, provides that “banking” means the accepting, for the purpose of lending or investment, of deposits of money from the public, repayable on demand or otherwise, and…
The credit officer of a bank would consider all the information provided by you in the project report while appraising your credit proposal. The office note/recommendation is prepared on the basis of key information available in the report, as well as information collected by the bank from their internal and external investigation sources to support…
RBI in its circular RBI/2017-18/89 /DBR.No.Leg.BC.96/09.07.005/2017-18 dated November 9, 2017 observed that there are occasions when banks discourage or turn away senior citizens and differently abled persons from availing banking facilities in branches. In this regard, Developmental and Regulatory Policies, released by Reserve Bank of India on October 4, 2017 state that notwithstanding the need…
Updated 05.01.2021: LEI is a 20-digit unique code to identify parties to financial transactions worldwide. Following the global financial crisis, the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) code is conceived at the initiative of the ‘Group of 20, financial stability Board’. In the US and Europe, the regulations require the use of LEIs to uniquely identify counterparties…
Commercial Banks extend varieties of credit facilities to individuals like salaried persons, professionals, businessmen by way of personal loan, vehicle loans and consumer loans. Personal loan will be granted for any legitimate purposes like whatsoever (e.g. expenses for domestic or foreign travel, medical treatment of self or a family member, even in medical contingencies, meeting…
Discount rates, also known as discount factors, refer to the interest rate used in discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis to determine the present value of future cash flows. Another meaning of the term “discount rate” is the rate used by pension plans and insurance companies for discounting their liabilities. Third system of calculating discount rate…
MUDRA stands acronym for Micro Units Development & Refinance Agency Ltd. It is an institution of Government of India set up for development and refinancing activities relating to non-corporate micro-units. At present MUDRA is set up as a subsidiary of SIDBI, pending statutory enactment by the Government. Traditionally commercial banks and financial institutions in India…
Companies across the world, while reporting the financial statement abide by the specific accounting regulations of their country of business. For example, companies that have business activities in India have to adopt the Indian Accounting Standard (abbreviated as Ind-AS) while reporting the financial statement, similarly, the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)’ of the US are…
(This post explains what are NPV, IRR, DCF, Time value of money, Hurdle rate or opportunity cost of capital, accounting rate of return, pay- back period etc.) The price of groceries or any other items purchased by you today will not be same next year. The purchasing ability of a Rupee today is different (normally…
Benefit to cost ratio is used to calculate the NPV in a proportion or ratio format. Here, the present value of future cash flows is calculated on proportion method, though, the method of calculation is similar to NPV method. Benefit to cost= Present value of investment/ present value (PV) of future inflows. If the ratio…