The Government of Bihar declared the following public holidays for the year 2024 under explanation to section 25 of the Negotiable Instrument Act 1881 as per gazette notification dated 11th September 2023 (Schedule 4). Sr.No Date Day Occasion/Festival Date 1 26.01.2024 Friday REPUBLIC DAY 2 22.03.2024 Friday BIHAR DAY 3 26.03.2024 Tuesday HOLI 4 27.03.2024…
Consumer Price Index for July, August, and September 2023 are respectively- 139.70, 139.20, and 137.50. It works out to 693 slabs of DA payable to bank staff for the quarter of November 2023 to January 2024. Hence there will be an increase of 61 slabs in DA for the above period at 48.51% as per…
The Government of Kerala State declared the following days as public HOLIDAYS for the year 2024 under Section 25 of the NI Act (Negotiable Instrument Act) 1881. Sr.No Date Day Occasion/Festival Date 1 26.01.2024 Friday REPUBLIC DAY 2 08.03.2024 Friday MAHASHIVARATRI 3 29.03.2024 Friday GOOD FRIDAY 4 01.04.2024 Thursday BANKS’ ANNUAL CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS 5…
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in its Judgment dated April 16, 2004, has ordered that excess interest collected by the banks from the borrowers through rounding off the applicable interest rate should be recovered from the banks and credited to a Trust to be created for the benefit of disadvantaged people. In the same judgment, the…
RBI issued a press release today stating that the Government of Maharashtra has declared June 29, 2023, as a public holiday under Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, of 1881. The Maharashtra Government declared a public holiday on June 28, 2023, earlier, that has been now canceled. Settlement of the auction of state government…
Far away in memory, statutory auditors have been using “external confirmations” to obtain balance confirmations in respect of accounts receivables, accounts payables, bank balances, loans, investments, or inventories held by third parties, etc. from various parties, including banks. In other words, external confirmations mean audit evidence obtained as a direct written response to the auditor…
Video-based Customer Identification Process (V-CIP) is an alternate method of customer identification with facial recognition and customer due diligence by an authorised official of the Regulated Entities (REs) like banks and other financial institutions. In the V-CIP process your KYC documents and signature are verified on a real-time basis through seamless, secure, live, informed-consent-based audio-visual…
In the month of March 2023, the Finance Ministry amended the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and rules in line with the recommendations of the FATFwhich is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog. In India, the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 and the Prevention of Money-Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005, as…
Pursuant to a recent amendment to KYC Master Direction, RBI on Thursday (May 4) advised Regulated Entities (RE) like banks and financial institutions to undertake certain measures while dealing with the Wire Transfer in terms of said amendment. Information requirements for cross-border, as well as domestic wire transfers in terms of the latest guidelines, are…
Know Your Customer (KYC) standards are designed to protect financial institutions against fraud, corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing. KYC involves several steps to: establish customer identity; understand the nature of customers’ activities and qualify that the source of funds is legitimate; and. KYC involves several steps to (i) establish customer identity (ii)understand the nature…