The interest rates for small savings schemes for the quarter July 2016 to September 2016 kept unchanged, as per announcement of the Government (finance ministry). Accordingly, the interest rates for the investments in the small savings schemes remain the same as in the previous quarter. The details of the interest rate applicable on various small saving…
The Government of India introduced major changes in FDI policy on Monday, Jun 20, 2016, bringing most sectors and activities under the automatic approval route. The changes introduced now simplifies the regulations governing foreign investments, and increase sectoral caps with a small negative list. These amendments are the second sweeping changes in FDI policy after…
(The importance of FDI is explained in this article in questions and answers format. The questions are like What way FDI is useful to domestic economy?, Why overseas entities invest in other countries?, Why India attracts FDI?, Why shop-keepers, businessmen and some political parties in India oppose FDI?, Is there any restriction for FDI?, What…
In a leading move to the consolidation of struggling public sector banks, Union Cabinet today (15th Jun 2016) has approved take over of State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad , State Bank of Mysore and State Bank of Travancore by State Bank of India. The Government sources said that the above move is…
RBI in its Second Bi-Monthly Statement with regard to ‘Monetary and Liquidity Measures’ made on 06.06.2016 decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.5 per cent; keep the cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks unchanged at 4.0 per cent of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL);…
(This article elucidates the role of micro ATMs in rural India and the details of how these ATMs work. Advantage and disadvantage of Micro ATMs is explained.) The Micro ATM is the developed version of point of sales (POS) terminals with the advanced features like the biometric scanner (finger print scanner) attached to it. Unlike…
The Stand-Up India Scheme is launched by Government of India to generate the profitable employment to hitherto underserved segment of our society. The scheme provides bank loans between 10 lakh and 100 lakh to at least one Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch for setting…
(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…
Loans must be made available to illiterate customers as are offered to other customers. Their inability to read the contents of document and execution thereof should not be a criterion for sanctioning/denying a loan. As far as execution of documents there is no distinction under law, between a literate and illiterate person. Therefore, the requirements…
Cash management refers to a broad area of finance involving the collection, handling, and usage of cash. Issuance and distribution of cash is one of the important functions of Reserve Bank of India. The RBI has agency arrangements mainly with scheduled commercial banks, under which a currency chest is managed. Bank notes and coins are…
