Dearness allowance: DA chart of Bank Sub-Staff from February 2020 to April 2020
On the basis of CPI data announced by the Labour Bureau for the period of October 2019 to December 2019, the average index number works out to 7464 (base 1960=100) or 759 slabs for the above period. It means sub-staff of bank employees are entitled to 759 slabs (75.90%) or enhancement of 42 slabs (4.20%)…
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What is deficit financing?
An excess of estimated expenditure over the estimated revenue over a specific period of time is known as fiscal deficit. The term deficit financing is generally referred to as a technique used by a government to manage the ‘Fiscal Deficit’ in budgetary situations. Governments across the world normally resort to cover the deficit (the gap…
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Revised guidelines for Merchanting Trade Transactions (MTT)
In the Indian context, when a transaction involves the shipment of goods from one foreign country to another foreign country through an Indian Intermediary it is called merchanting trade or Intermediary trade. Goods involved in the merchanting trade transactions would be the ones that are permitted for exports/imports under the prevailing Foreign Trade Policy (FTP)…
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Permissible activities of IFSC Banking Units (IBUs)
The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday (21/01/2020) issued directions relating to IFSC Banking Units (IBUs) governed under ‘Currency Futures in International Financial Services Centre (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2020’ which shall come into force with effect from the date of its publication. IFSC is an abbreviation for International Financial Services Centres and IFSC Banking Units…
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FRDI bill comes back as FSDR bill with some modifications
The FRDI Bill launched wild rumours all over the country, sowing seeds of distrust among bank customers over a “bail-in” clause, which theoretically allowed beleaguered banks to scoop up depositors’ money to stop them from going bust. However the ill-conceived FRDI bill was withdrawn by the Government and now replaced the same by a new…
Card Transactions to be mandatorily disabled for online transactions if not used before
The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday (January 16, 2020) has introduced new rules to enhance the security of card transactions. As per RBI notification, while issuing and reissuing the debit and credit cards, banks must ensure that all the debit cards and credit cards are enabled only for domestic transactions at ATMs and point…
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