Issue of last tranche of Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2022-23 starts today
The Subscription of the Gold Bonds under this Scheme shall be open between March 6 (Monday) and March 10 (Friday).The Central Government may, with prior notice, close the Scheme at any time before the period specified above. Sovereign Gold Bonds are issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on behalf of the Centre as…
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Noting and Protest under negotiable instrument act
Section 99 of the Negotiable instrument Act 1881 provides that “When a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument or upon a paper attached thereto, or partly upon each. A such note must…
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Execution of Loan Documents: The manager must remember these 29 important points
The main concern of a bank is that security available to it should be good enough to fall back upon, in the event of adverse circumstances. The role of loan documentation in the bank is to establish a legal relationship between the lender and the borrower when the dispute goes to a court of law.…
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How do banks determine ‘Spread’ in respect of interest on advances?
The interest rate on advance levied by banks comprises the BPLR, Base rate, MCLR rate, or external benchmarks like Repo-linked lending of the respective bank, and the ‘Spread’ over the cost of lending is decided by the bank’s Board. The determination of ‘Spread’ varies on each category of advance depending upon the tenure of the…
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Implementation of Ind AS: Recognition of unrealised income by ARCs in their financial statements
RBI on Monday, in its notification, observed that consequent to the implementation of Ind AS, some Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) have been recognising management fees even though the said fee had not been realised for more than 180 days. In view of the above the notification said that ARCs preparing their financial statements as per…
Right of set-off and the important requirement to initiate the same
The banker’s right to combine different accounts of a person against the debt it holds against the same person is called the right to set off. The right of set-off is available to the bank only when the money owed to the bank is a certain sum, which should be due at the time of…
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