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Depositors to get claim up to Rs 5 lakh from DICGC in 90 days of bank failure

Union Cabinet today (July 28, 2021) approved an amendment to the Deposit Insurance Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) Bill to provide account holders access to up to Rs 5 lakh funds within 90 days of bank failure, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday announced that the Union Cabinet cleared the amendment…

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Stress Testing in banks: the objective and new challenges

A bank stress test is an exercise conducted under hypothetical scenarios designed to determine whether the bank has enough capital to withstand a negative economic shock. Most risk management models, including stress tests, use historical statistical relationships to assess risk. They assume that risk is driven by a known and constant statistical process, ie they…

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