Repo suggests the rate at which liquidity is injected into the banking system whereas Reverse Repo is the rate at which RBI absorbs liquidity from the banks. RBI controls the money supply in the country by effecting the changes in repo rate & reverse repo rate. Therefore repo and SDF (reverse repo rate) are known…
Effective from 20 July 2020, the Consumer Protection Act, of 2019 replaces the more than three decades old Consumer Protection Act, of 1986. The new Consumer Protection Act 2019 seeks to revamp the process of administration and settlement of consumer disputes, with strict penalties, including jail terms for adulteration and misleading ads by firms. Among…
A bank must protect the confidentiality of its customers’ personal and banking-related information. This duty of secrecy, or confidentiality, extends to any information obtained from a customer’s account or banking relations. It is the most important duty of a bank that it must ensure all banking records of the customers are protected and are not…
Service charges are intended to cover the cost of services provided by the bank. As per RBI guidelines, for basic charges rendered to individuals, banks will levy charges ad valorem subject to a cap. RBI working group recommended service charges shall be fixed on a principle that fixing lower rates for individuals as compared to…
Section 72 of the Indian Contract Act provides that a person to whom money has been paid by mistake must repay or return the same to the person who has made such payment. Implied law: If one pays money to his friend intentionally and the friend receives it without any agreement. That is called a…
[This article explains the relationship between the bank and the customer like a creditor and the debtor, Lessor and the Lessee, Trustee and beneficiary, bailor and bailee, Principal and the agent, assigner and assignee, etc. according to the type of service rendered by the bank. The responsibilities of the banker acting upon the mandate and…
Banks and other financial institutions are required to submit various returns, many of which are statutory under the RBI Act of 1934, the Banking Regulation Act of 1949, FEMA 1999, the SEBI Act of 1992, Income Tax 1961, etc. Submission frequency of these returns varies from daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and annual. Regulatory…
The provisions of nomination are found in various financial products like Life Insurance, Provident Fund, Gratuity, Co-operative societies and banking regulation acts (section 45ZC to 45 ZF) and Banking Companies (Nomination) rules 1985 and the relevant provisions of the Indian Succession Act. The nomination facility is available only to individual depositors and not to any…
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…
(Article answers to the questions like whether younger coparcener can be made Karta when an elder sibling is alive, whether Daughters can also become Karta, whether the wife of the Karta can become Karta, whether there can be a HUF within a HUF, When the father was a Karta in his father’s HUF, who will…