Bank holidays 2024 in Kerala state under NI Act
The Government of Kerala State declared the following days as public HOLIDAYS for the year 2024 under Section 25 of the NI Act (Negotiable Instrument Act) 1881. Sr.No Date Day Occasion/Festival Date 1 26.01.2024 Friday REPUBLIC DAY 2 08.03.2024 Friday MAHASHIVARATRI 3 29.03.2024 Friday GOOD FRIDAY 4 01.04.2024 Thursday BANKS’ ANNUAL CLOSING OF ACCOUNTS 5…
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Do you know this? Excess Interest collected by the banks by rounding off the applicable interest cannot be retained by the banks
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in its Judgment dated April 16, 2004, has ordered that excess interest collected by the banks from the borrowers through rounding off the applicable interest rate should be recovered from the banks and credited to a Trust to be created for the benefit of disadvantaged people. In the same judgment, the…
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Change in Public Holiday under Negotiable Instrument Act – June 28 is working day
RBI issued a press release today stating that the Government of Maharashtra has declared June 29, 2023, as a public holiday under Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, of 1881. The Maharashtra Government declared a public holiday on June 28, 2023, earlier, that has been now canceled. Settlement of the auction of state government…
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Auditors’ pleasure! Regulatory common platform to be set up for balance confirmation
Far away in memory, statutory auditors have been using “external confirmations” to obtain balance confirmations in respect of accounts receivables, accounts payables, bank balances, loans, investments, or inventories held by third parties, etc. from various parties, including banks. In other words, external confirmations mean audit evidence obtained as a direct written response to the auditor…
Read article V-CIP process for online KYC of individuals, proprietor and companies
Video-based Customer Identification Process (V-CIP) is an alternate method of customer identification with facial recognition and customer due diligence by an authorised official of the Regulated Entities (REs) like banks and other financial institutions. In the V-CIP process your KYC documents and signature are verified on a real-time basis through seamless, secure, live, informed-consent-based audio-visual…
Amendment to prevention of money laundering act and impact
In the month of March 2023, the Finance Ministry amended the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and rules in line with the recommendations of the FATFwhich is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog. In India, the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 and the Prevention of Money-Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005, as…
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