Offer of additional Interest on domestic bank deposits

(Depositors, like Senior Citizen Karta of HUF, NRE/NRO account of own staff of the bank, employees who are retired on compulsory retirement from the bank or in consequence of disciplinary action, Casual employees of the bank, employees’ federations etc. are not eligible for additional interest meant for staff. However, senior citizens, spouse of deceased staff/deceased retired…

Dealing in Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLCs)

[This post answers many questions like ‘What is a PSL certificate?’, ‘Who needs PSLCs?’, ‘How the limit for issuance of each category of PSLC is decided?’ ‘How the PSLC transactions are computed for the determination of PSL target/sub-targets?’, ‘Is there any expiry date for PSLCs?’, ‘Whether the loan assets or risks of loan defaults are…

3 categories of Stamp duties in India

[This article elucidates  details of three categories of stamp duties in relation to transaction type, on adjudication, impounding of documents and also refund of unused stamp papers. The idea of Government raising revenue by way of stamp duty from the transactions of its citizen said to be originated in Holland in the early sixteenth century.…

CCIL is now Trade Repository

The Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL) is now designated as ‘Trade Repository’ for the OTC interest rate and Foreign Exchange Contract.  The designated trade repository will be regulated and supervised under section 34(2) of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (PSS Act).  Being a Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI), the repository would function under…