Interest payable on unclaimed deposit transferred to DEA Fund: RBI
All the banks are advised to calculate the interest payable on interest bearing deposits transferred to RBI at the rate of 3 percent per year with effect from May 11, 2021 till the time of payment to the depositor/claimant. The interest rate was 4 per cent p.a. up to June 30, 2018, and 3.5 per…
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All these 15 Types of Bank Audits you need to know
The audit is classified into many different types and levels of assurance according to the objectives, scopes, purposes, and procedures of how auditing is performed. The financial statement auditing is done normally in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (ISA) as well as other local auditing standards. An operational audit involves checking the efficiency of…
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RBI relaxes bad loans provisioning rules for banks, permits 100% utilization of floating provisions
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…
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Fresh lending support of ₹50000 Crore to Emergency Health Services
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…
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RBI announces Resolution Framework 2.0 for COVID Related Stressed Assets
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…
RBI rationalizes certain components of extant KYC norms
(No punitive restrictions on Account Operations for non compliance of periodic upation of KYC till Dec 31) Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday advised Banks and other Regulated Entities (REs) that in respect of the customer accounts where periodic updation of KYC is due and pending as on date, no punitive restrictions on operations of…
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