The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday announced that banks are allowed to utilise100 per cent of floating provisions/counter-cyclical provisioning buffer for making specific provisions for non-performing assets. RBI in its circular dated May 5, 2021 stated that “In order to mitigate the adverse impact of COVID 19 related stress on…
RBI on Wednesday announced provision of immediate liquidity for ramping up COVID related healthcare infrastructure and services in the country, an on-tap liquidity window of ₹50,000 crore with tenors of up to three years at the repo rate is being opened till March 31, 2022. Wide range of entities including vaccine manufactures; importers/suppliers of vaccines…
RBI on Wednesday (5th May) announced Resolution Framework 2.0 targeting individual, small businesses and MSME borrowers. In terms of RBI’s Febraury 5th circular, Scheduled Commercial Banks were allowed to deduct the amount equivalent to credit disbursed to new MSME borrowers from their Net Demand and Time Liabilities (NDTL) for calculation of the Cash Reserve Ratio…
In our previous posts we talked about (1) Tax audit, (2) What is the stock audit, and (3) What is a forensic audit? (4) What is a Legal Audit? (5) Concurrent Audit System in bank. (6) What is a statutory audit? In this post let us study how the loan accounts are verifying the loan…
Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday asked lending institutions to disclose the aggregate amount to be refunded/adjusted in respect of their borrowers based on the Asset Classification and Income Recognition following the expiry of the Covid-19 regulatory package in their financial statements for the year ending March 31, 2021. The above announcement of the central…
The Government of India, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), had restructured the erstwhile Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) and launched the National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) in 2013. NULM has been implemented in all district headquarters (irrespective of population) and all the cities with population of 1 lakh or more. The Self…
The “Prime Minister’s New 15-Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities” is the revised guidelines of the earlier programme on Credit facilities to the minority community. The objective of the new programme is to ensure that the benefits of various government schemes for the underprivileged reach the disadvantaged sections of the minority communities which are…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday has pronounced its judgment on a batch of pleas related to the six-month loan moratorium period, stating that it cannot allow waiver of complete interest and extension of the moratorium. The judgment was delivered by a Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy, and MR Shah in a batch…
Today (January 27, 2021), RBI told the banks to use the ratings of the CRISIL Ratings Limited for the purpose of risk weighting their claims for New Capital Adequacy Framework (NCAF) on Basel III capital regulation purposes. The above decision taken by RBI is owing to rating business of CRISIL Limited has since been transferred…
On the subject of a bad bank, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday said RBI can consider the idea of a bad bank if there is any such proposal. He said the idea has been under discussion for a very long time. “We in the RBI have provided regulatory guidelines for asset reconstruction companies and…