Fair Lending Practice – Penal Charges in Loan Accounts: RBI issues draft circular
Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday issued various guidelines to the Regulated Entities (Financial institutions like banks and NBFCs) to ensure reasonableness and transparency in the disclosure of penal interest. Under the extant guidelines, lending institutions have the operational autonomy to formulate Board approved policies for the levy of penal rates of interest. It has…
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Risk to banks and borrowers in innovative upfront disbursal of housing loans
Some banks have introduced innovative Housing Loan Schemes in association with developers/builders. The normal process of these schemes, is upfront disbursal of sanctioned individual housing loans to the builders without linking the disbursals to various stages of construction of the housing project, Interest/EMI on the housing loan availed of by the individual borrower being serviced…
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What bank can do if you deposit a fake note in the bank?
Fake Currency Note is a term used to refer to counterfeit currency notes. The fraudster may print imitation (Counterfeit) currency notes and cheat unsuspecting individuals by handing over them as real money. Authority to impound counterfeit notes: The Counterfeit Notes can be impounded by all Banks, Issue Offices of Reserve Bank of India. The notes…
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RBI to set up a centralised portal to access details of unclaimed deposits
In today’s Statement on developmental and regulatory policies, RBI said that it would set up a centralised portal to access details of unclaimed deposits by depositors or their beneficiaries across various banks. The overdue deposits or balances held in inoperative accounts remaining unclaimed for 10 years are transferred to the “Depositor Education and Awareness” (DEA)…
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UPI network will facilitate payments using Bank Credit: RBI
Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is a robust payments platform supporting an array of features. Presently it handles 75% of the retail digital payments volume in India. According to the RBI statement, UPI is the single largest retail payment system in the country in terms of volume of transactions. In terms of volume, the number of…
RBI keeps policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5%
The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by RBI Governor on Wednesday (April 6, 2023) decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50%. Reserve Bank projected India’s GDP growth forecast raised to 6.5% from the previous 6.4 percent for 2023-24. The present policy rates can still be regarded as accommodative, the statement said.…
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