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What is Universal Banking?

Universal banking is generally compared to a super market where all types of financial products available within one roof. A universal bank undertakes financial services like commercial banking, investment banking, forex operations, remittances & payment systems, development banking and other financial services including functions of merchant banking, mutual funds, factoring, project finance, housing finance, credit…

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How to compare the discount rate of a loan with rate of interest?

We may observe that some banks as well as dealers of automobiles and electronic items offer discounted loans to their customers. Discounted loans are the loans that have the interest payment subtracted from the principal before the loan is disbursed. For example, consider a customer pays Rs.100/- in a year for an item costing Rs.95/-.…

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Dearness Relief payable to Bank Pensioners (Aug ’18 to Jan’19)

The percentage of Dearness Relief (DR) payable to the bank pensioners for the half year August 2018 to January 2019 will be as under. Retired on or after 11.2012:  541 slabs @ 0.10%=54.10% No of slabs Rate per Slab Percentage of DR  payable DA on Basic Pension (Before commutation) 541 0.10% 54.10% Basic Pension ×…

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DA chart of Bank employees (August-October’18)

12 slabs increase in DA for Aug 2018 – Oct 2018 and 14 slabs increase in DA for Aug 2018 – January 2019 for Pensioners CPI for June 2019 is 291 (6596.68) as per the announcement of Labour Bureau today (31.07.2018). With the above, the average CPI for April, May & June 2018 is 6588.…

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