Bitcoin is talk of town these days. On one hand, some countries like Japan, China and Australia have begun weighing regulations, while on the other, the Reserve Bank of India cautioned the general public, those users or traders of virtual currencies are doing so at their own risk. RBI in its press releases in 2013…
The core business of a bank is to accept deposits from the public for the purpose of lending and investment. The Section 5(b) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, provides that “banking” means the accepting, for the purpose of lending or investment, of deposits of money from the public, repayable on demand or otherwise, and…
Safe deposit lockers are specially designed lockers that are generally kept in specially built strong rooms for keeping the valuables of the hirer. In India, safe deposit lockers are available in most of the Bank branches. These lockers of different sizes like small, medium, large, and extra-large are purchased from reputed manufacturers to suit the…
The nominations made by locker hirer or there is a survivor clause in joint operation of the locker, such nomination or survivorship would facilitate expeditious release of articles in lockers to hirer’s nominee/s. Here we will go through the procedure (1) where there is survivor / nominee clause (2) where there is no survivor /…
The payment and settlement system in India is governed by the Payment and Settlement Systems (PSS) Act, 2007. According to definition of PSS Act 2007, Payment System means a system that enables payment to be effected between a payer and a beneficiary, involving clearing, payment or settlement service or all of them. This includes the…
The Clearing Corporation of India Ltd. (CCIL) was set up in 2001 commenced business operations in the securities market on February 15, 2002. CCIL provides an institutional infrastructure for the Clearing and Settlement of transactions by banks, financial institutions and primary dealers, in Government Securities, Money Market instruments, Foreign Exchange and other related products. The…
LIBOR is the acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate. The ‘LIBOR’ serves as the key benchmark rate in calculating interest rates on various loans across the world. Each morning before 11 a.m. (GMT), the sets of major banks that have a significant presence in the London market are asked the rate at which they could…
MIBOR stands acronym for ‘Mumbai Inter- bank Outright Rate’, the benchmark of the Indian call money market. It is the rate at which banks borrow unsecured funds from one another in the inter bank market. The bid rate on how much interest banks would pay to borrow money on a short-term basis from other institutions…
A strategic alliance is an agreement between two or more independent organizations that agree to share resources to undertake a specific, mutually beneficial objective. The strategic alliance is akin to partnership project, the relation fall short of legally banded partnership. The agreement may be formal or informal in nature, but each party’s responsibilities must be…
A depository receipt or depositary receipt (DR) is a negotiable financial instrument that represents a foreign company’s (issuing company which is incorporated outside India) publicly traded debt or equity in domestic exchanges. The depository receipts (DRs) which are created by a Domestic Depository bank against the underlying equity shares of the issuing company are termed…