The confirmed DA for bank employees and officers from 1st May 2021 will decrease by 0.56 compared to last quarter. Based on the CPI announced by the Labour Bureau today, the average index number would be 7818. It means Dearness Allowance for the bank staff will be 366 slabs (25.62 %) or a decrease 8…
The Reserve Bank of India on Monday issued certain instructions on the governance for banks, including private banks, Small Finance Banks (SFBs), Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of Foreign Banks (not applicable to foreign banks operating as branches in India). In respect of the State Bank of India and Nationalised Banks, these guidelines would apply to the…
Given the prevailing law and order situation and other subversive activities carried out by antisocial/extremist organizations in the country mainly targeting the banks, the Reserve Bank of India and Indian Bank Association had prepared checklists of guidelines for stringent security arrangements for implementation in banks. The “Report of the Working Group to Review Security Arrangements…
Reserve Bank of India while allowing banks to pay dividends on equity shares, reviewed the dividend declaration norms for the year ended March 31, 2021. “In view of the continuing uncertainty caused by the ongoing second wave of COVID-19 in the country, it is crucial that banks remain resilient and proactively raise and conserve capital…
Examining the cash balance at the bank branch is routine job for the senior officer of the branch assigned with the job. Physical verification may be carried out by the branch head on a surprise basis. The statutory auditors appointed by the bank have to verify the cash balance at the branch at the end…
The Ministry of communication, Government of India has made certain amendments to make the process of claiming money from the small savings schemes such as Public Provident Fund (PPF), National Savings Certificate (NSC), Post Office Monthly Income Scheme (PO-MIS), etc. The process of claiming money has been streamlined by the department via a circular dated…
In the event of death of the subscriber, the amount standing to his credit can be repaid to his nominee or legal heir, as the case may be, even before the expiry of 15 years. Amount in a PPF account will continue to earn interests as per the terms even after death of the subscriber…
The following post elucidates the claim procedure of NSCs where Nomination is registered or in the event of death of nominee of the deceased certificate holder, or when there is no nomination, interest payment clauses, and continuation of the certificate holder. There are 3 types of saving certificates issued by the Postal Department. (1) A…
In our previous posts we talked about In our previous posts we talked about various types of audits conducted in banks such as (1) Statutory Audit (2) Long Form Audit Report 3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Concurrent Audit System in bank. (6) Emergence of Risk-Based Internal Audits in Banks (7) Tax audit, and (8) What is the stock audit? For details, you…
As per the new rules set in 2018, a person who became NRI can continue his/her PPF account that he/she had opened while in India. However, one cannot open a new PPF account after becoming an NRI. Earlier to the above rule, (in terms of amended PF rule 2017), a person who becomes an NRI…
