Availability of 24×7NEFT service to the public from Dec’19

The Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies released by RBI yesterday set out various developmental and regulatory policy measures in the areas of Financial Markets; Payment and Settlement Systems; Banking Regulation, Financial Inclusion and Credit flow to NBFCs. Highlight of policies statement are as follows; Payment and Settlement Systems: As cited in the Payment System…

Banks are prohibited from levying foreclosure charges/ pre-payment penalties

Reserve Bank of India on Friday (August 02, 2019) reminded all the commercial banks that they are not permitted to charge foreclosure charges / pre-payment penalties on home loans / all floating rate term loans sanctioned to individual borrowers. The above norm of prohibiting banks charging foreclosure charges/pre-payment penalties on floating rate loan is already…