A personal account is a bank account maintained by a natural person for his personal transactional needs. Personal account is a relative term to distinguish it from business accounts. The accounts of other types of bank customers are maintained by artificial persons (legal entities). Personal accounts of individuals in the bank include: SB account, Current…
HUF is the acronym for Hindu Undivided Family. A HUF can be formed by members of a family, wherein the members are lineal ascendants or descendants of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikh religions. The eldest member becomes the Karta of HUF. Other members of the family are called coparceners. The coparceners share equally with the…
The Karta is traditionally the senior most male coparcener of the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF). He is the person who takes care of the day-to-day expenses of the family looks after the family and protects the joint family properties. He remains to be Karta even if he becomes aged, infirm, or ailing. Where a senior…
A current account is a form of demand deposit account, designed for running transactions of a business establishment. The documents requirement at the bank for opening a current account depends upon how the business entity has been established (viz formed by an Individual owner or Partnership or club, association, society or Limited Company or Trust…
Karta (Manager) of HUF has sole authority over the HUF account and also over every transaction on behalf of the HUF account, made by each member of the family. Therefore, it is necessary to appoint a new Karta to allow operation in the account after the death of the Karta to allow further operation in…
While opening opening Current Accounts of all categories of depositors including proprietors, partners, trustees, settlers, beneficiaries those holding power of attorney, founders, managers, directors, etc. the customers need to submit ‘know your customer’ related official valid documents of the entities and natural persons behind the entities. As per RBI guidelines, in addition to seeking NOC…
This post elucidates how interest rates offered by banks may vary based on the tenor of deposits, the Periodicity of interest payable on SB accounts, accounts frozen by enforcement authorities, and floating deposits. Additional rate of interest paid by banks in certain cases, interest payable on NRE and FCNR (B) deposits, rules regarding interest payable…
(Last updated on August 04, 2024) 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; KYC involves several steps to (i) establish…
A deposit generally refers to money held in a customer’s bank account. Banks offer different types of deposit accounts to their customers with diverse features. Let us understand the types of accounts available to Bank customers Savings account Savings Bank (SB) accounts are opened mainly for saving purposes. Customers cannot open an SB account for…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday, June 7, 2024, in its Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies announced, that banks have the discretion to offer differential rates of interest on bulk deposits as per their requirements and Asset-Liability Management (ALM) projections. The bulk deposit limit was enhanced in the year 2019 for Scheduled…