The Aadhaar verdict was announced today (26.09.2018) by a five-judge constitution bench of Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.K. Sikri, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Ashok Bhushan. The Apex Court, ruled that it is not mandatory to link bank accounts with Aadhaar or Unique Identity Number, a 12-digit personal…
You may be holding a few currency notes which have become dirty due to normal wear and tear or two piece note pasted together wherein both the pieces presented belong to the same note and form the entire note with no essential feature missing. These notes are called as ‘soiled notes’ as per RBI definition.…
The Central Government has made amendments to the Reserve Bank of India (Note Refund) Rules, 2009. The amended rules called “the Reserve Bank of India (Note Refund) Amendment Rules, 2018” are effective from Gazette notification date September 6, 2018. The amendment to rules would help the public to exchange mutilated notes in Mahatma Gandhi (New)…
RBI vide its circular RBI/2018-19/14, DBR.AML.BC.No.210/14.01.001/2018-19 dated 12.07.2018 has made it compulsory to banks to incorporate the name of the purchaser on the face of the Demand Draft while purchasing it at a bank (including RRBs, Co-operative banks). In terms of the above notification, Section 66 of the Master Direction on KYC dated…
The extant regulations with regard to the regulatory capital of banks in India are different from internationally adopted Basel III capital standards. With a view to bringing the Banks’ Balance Sheet Items in closer Alignment with Basel Framework, RBI has reviewed the position and made some amendments to the capital adequacy guidelines for the purposes…
Till now the rate of interest payable by banks to the depositors/claimants on the unclaimed interest-bearing deposit amount transferred to the DEA Fund has been maintained at the rate of 4% simple interest per annum.RBI vide its circular RBI/2017-2018/191 dated June 07, 2018 communicated to all the banks that the rate of interest payable by…
President Mr.Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday (June 6, 2018) gave assent to promulgate the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018. The Government in its statement said that the changes envisioned in the amendment are expected to further strengthen the Insolvency Resolution Framework in the country and produce better outcomes in terms of resolution as…
The ordinance passed by Government of India on Wednesday (June 06, 2018) to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) treats home buyers in ailing real estate companies on par with banks in the resolution process. The new IBC ordinance tags the buyers of home buyers with financial creditors which empowers even a single home buyer to…
RBI extends relief to all MSMEs that was till now only available to GST registered MSMEs having credit facilities up to Rs.25 Crores to repay loan up to 180 days (as against 90 days) without being classified as NPAs. In order to enable other MSMEs for their transition to formalised sector (MSMEs) and also keeping…
Beside the policy decision to hike the Repo rate by 25 bps, RBI on Wednesday (06.06.2018) revised the housing loan limits for priority sector lending from existing limit of Rs.28 lakhs to Rs.35 lakhs in Metropolitan Centers provided the overall cost of dwelling unit does not Rs.45 lakhs. The limit for other centers for classification…