RBI issues guidelines to market participants regarding exchange of variation margin (VM) for NCCDs
In today’s (June 8, 2022) statement of development and regulatory policies the Reserve Bank of India issued guidelines to market participants regarding the exchange of variation margin (VM) for non-centrally cleared derivatives (NCCDs). Derivatives are financial instruments whose value is derived from other underlying assets. There are mainly four types of derivative contracts such as…
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RBI doubles Individual Housing Loan limits by Cooperative Banks
In today’s (June 8, 2022) statement of development and regulatory policies, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced measures to support cooperative banks by doubling the credit limits for the individual borrowers of Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks (UCBs) and Rural Cooperative Banks (RCBs) – State Cooperative Banks and District Central Cooperative Banks. According to the…
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RBI hikes REPO rate by 50 basis points, bank rate and MSF also spiked to 5.15%
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Wednesday hiked the repo rate by 50 basis points (bps) to 4.90 per cent. The move comes barely a month after the central bank in a surprise off-cycle meeting had jacked up the repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40 per cent to…
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If you have not yet linked PAN-Aadhaar this is the news for you
Have you linked your PAN card with aadhar? If not do it fast to avoid a double penalty from 1st July. Further, your PAN card may become inoperative if the same is not linked to aadhaar before the deadline of March 2023. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), circular vide F.No. 370142/14/22-TPL dated on 30th…
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Interest Equalization Scheme with reduced interest rates extended till March 2024 or till further review
[Today, RBI clarifies about Government order on Production Linked Incentive (PLI)] Updated on 31.05.2022 In the RBI circular dated March 8, 2022, it was stated that the extended IES would not be available to those beneficiaries who were availing of the benefit under any Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme of the Government. In this regard,…
RBI report: Fake notes of Rs.500 doubled and Rs.2000 increased to 54.16% in 2021-22
On Friday RBI released its annual report 2021-22, a statutory report of its central board of directors for the period April 2021-March 2022. As per the RBI report, counterfeit notes of all denominations increased in the financial year 2021-22. The RBI detected 101.9 per cent more fake notes of Rs. 500 denomination and 54.16 per…
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