How to deal with accounts of insolvent person?
When an insolvency petition has been filed in the Court, in respect of a customer of the bank, the bank shall immediately stop paying cheques drawn by the customer irrespective of cheque dated before or after the date of the petition. While dealing with such accounts, bankers need be to extra careful. Any act of…
Read article Whether bank can sanction loan to a mentally retarded person?
The public sector banks are required to extend loans to the persons suffering from austim, retardness, as per Government policy. However, the question is for what purposes loans would be granted to retarded persons and how a bank can grant a loan to mentally retarded person as we are sure that bank cannot directly grant…
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What is National Payments Corporation of India?
National Payments Corporation of India was registered under section 25 of companies’ act 1956 and became functional from April 2009 as an umbrella organization for all retail payments system in India. It was promoted by ten banks namely; State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, and Union Bank of India,…
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What is the role of Clearing Corporation of India?
The Clearing Corporation of India Ltd. (CCIL) was set up in 2001 commenced business operations in the securities market on February 15, 2002. CCIL provides an institutional infrastructure for the Clearing and Settlement of transactions by banks, financial institutions and primary dealers, in Government Securities, Money Market instruments, Foreign Exchange and other related products. The…
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What are CFT and FATF in banking?
CFT is an acronym for Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT). Financing terrorism means providing financial support to terrorist or terrorist organizations intended to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals through violence and the threat of violence against civilians. The flow of funds may reach those terrorists from legitimate religious or cultural organizations or it…
What are the RBI norms for periodical updating of KYC?
Banks are required to periodically update their customers’ KYC details under Know Your Customer (KYC) Norms /Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Standards/ Combating of Financing of Terrorism (CFT)/Obligation of banks under Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. As per latest review and directives of RBI, periodic full KYC exercise will be required to be done for…
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