A meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) was held today (January 13, 2021) in Mumbai through video conference. RBI Governor Shri Shaktikanta Das, chaired the meeting. In the meeting, topics of the major impact on global and domestic economy as well as financial financial stability were discussed. The following…
The subscription for the tenth tranche of the Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) scheme, the 2020-21 Series X, has opened on January 11, 2021, and will close on January 15, 2021. The SGBs will be allotted on January 19, 2021. Issue price : Rs 5,054 (per gram of gold) for payment through digital mode. Government of…
On Monday (11.01.2021), the Financial Stability and Development Council in its report bi-annual report said that Indian banks may see bad loans double despite signs of an improvement in the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The council is an umbrella group of regulators and releases the FSR report twice yearly to give a detailed…
RBI on Friday (08.01.2021) said that all commercial banks (including small finance banks, payments banks, and Local area banks) are required to put in place a risk-based internal audit (RBIA) system as part of their internal control framework that relies on a well-defined policy for internal audit, functional independence with sufficient standing and authority within…
The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is a 20-digit number used worldwide that will uniquely identify every legal entity or structure to a financial transaction. Pursuant to the Global Financial Crisis, the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) code is conceived at the initiative of ‘Group of 20, financial stability Board’ for the purpose of better risk management.…
The Reserve Bank of India has constructed a composite Digital Payments Index (DPI) to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country The DPI comprises of 5 broad parameters that enable measurement of deepening and penetration of digital payments over different time periods. These parameters are – (i) Payment Enablers (weight 25%), (ii)…
The Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on the 28th December 2020 notifies (G.S.R.799(E) dealers in precious metals, precious stones, in the exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (iv) of clause (sa) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 (15 of 2003), as “persons carrying on designated businesses…
Updated 01.01.2021 The Finance Ministry of Government of India on December 31 said in a statement, “The rates of interest on various small savings schemes for the fourth quarter of 2020-21, starting from January 1 and ending March 31, 2021, shall remain unchanged from those notified for the third quarter (October to December). The interest…
A person’s gross total income chargeable to tax is a sum of income under various heads such as ‘income from salary’, ‘income from other sources’ etc. One of these heads of income is ‘Income from House Property’. The income from House property is added to the person’s total income for assessment of tax only if…
For the FY 2020-21, Salaried individuals, who have no business income, have the option to choose between the old (existing) and new tax regimes u/s 115BAC as per their convenience. There are different types of income allowed as deduction while computing the income chargeable under the old rule. There are different Sections of the Income…