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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Govt, RBI Doing Everything to Get Hold of Economy: Sinha
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RBI conducts financial awareness-cum-literacy prog at Aghar Jitto Mela
REASI, June 24: Reserve Bank of India in association with State Bank of India conducted a financial awareness-cum-literacy programme at Aghar Jitto Mela. This programme was focused on creating awareness among the common people about forged currency notes, credit cards, ATM, banking transactions, banking ombudsman scheme, opening of no frill accounts (Basic Saving Bank Deposit Account). A large number of people visited the RBI’s stall and got their various queries answered.........
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RBI’s defence strategy
The RBI’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged in its monetary policy announcements was expected due to the rising value of the US dollar against our currency. However, it would have been great had the RBI gone on the offensive and cut rates to propel growth across all sectors............
Financial Inclusion – include Derivatives?
Inclusion has been the most-talked-about term in the last few years. India is talking and RBI is walking the way for financial inclusion among the Indian masses. It has been pondered over by economists and financial experts as to why the Indian rural market should be brought under institutional financing and what the end state should look like. The ultimate aim is to bring everyone under the governance system to enable easy dispatch of welfare packages and bring them out of the unregulated financial system. But what about derivatives inclusion among the masses who are already within the system?..............
Weak rupee | RBI reverses decade-old forex relaxation for SEZs
......Though the sudden slide of rupee prompted the regulator to notify the norm on June 11, the new directive would now not only build pressure on SEZ units but also their overseas clients to make faster payments. Significantly, RBI’s June notification lifts a decade long exemption for these units..........
SREI, Edelweiss to seek licence from RBI for setting up bank
Joining the list of banking aspirants, financial services firms SREI Infrastructure Finance and Edelweiss Financial today said they will apply to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for seeking bank licences. The board of the company at its meeting today, has decided to submit an application to the RBI for obtaining a banking license, based on the guidelines for licencing of new banks in the private sector dated February 22, 2013, SREI Infrastructure Finance said in a filing on the BSE...........
RBI to auction second tranche of inflation indexed bonds today
.....both competitive and noncompetitive bids will be accepted only in electronic format on the RBI core banking solution ( E- Kuber) system from 10.30 AM. While the first will close at 12 noon, the second will close at 11.30 AM. The auction results will be announced the same day and successful bidders are required to pay by Wednesday.......
RBI Mumbai, Navi Mumbai offices to be closed on Jul 1
........."All offices of the Reserve Bank of India situated in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai will remain closed for public transactions on Monday, July 1, 2013 to facilitate annual closing of its accounts,".......
Justice delayed is justice denied.............
I have seen several mails, in the last couple of years, from some of our
active retired employees who have taken up the issue of Pension Updation with
the Bank (also with the Government) detailing irrefutable arguments as why the
demand for Pension updation for RBI retired employees, on the lines of
Government employees in accordance with the recommendations of the Pay
Commission, is fair and reasonable. Unfortunately, the demand is yet to be
conceded. From one of the issues of 'Hitguj', I came to know
that it was the much admired Shri Vinod Rai (of course for the manner in which
he had performed his role as CAG) who had first turned down the proposal and
even saw it proper to ask the RBI to withdraw the instructions issued for
Updation and recover the excess amount paid to such of those employees
who had retired and had got the benefit.The final disposal of the case in the
Mumbai High Court seems to have gone into a limbo!! Even then, we should
congratulate some of our retired colleagues who had petitioned the Mumbai High
Court and secured a stay of the operation of the Bank's circular issued as
desired by the Ministry of Finance. This is an important first step for
securing the right of updation of pension for RBI employees. Unfortunately,there
has been no progress towards the final resolution of the issue.
Shri Vinod Rai must have
found merit for supporting the stand of his Ministry and for taking the
decision which he did. In the Affidavit filed by the Ministry in the Mumbai
High Court Case, the arguments of the Ministry would have been given for not
agreeing to the pension updation for RBI employees. Strangely, in none of the
mails I had received, I could find arguments of the Ministry against the
proposal. The argument that if pension updation is given to RBI employees, it
had to be extended to the Banking Industry and LIC etc is so weak that it is to
be dismissed with the contempt it deserves. The argument that the Ministry is
prejudiced against the employees of the RBI and hence it is not agreeing to the
proposal cannot be considered responsible. There should be some valid arguments
from the side of the GOI and some conditions before the proposal is cleared. I
would be happy to be enlightened on this matter from any member of the large,
knowledgeable community of Mangesh Tarambale's Newsletter (VITALINFO). Thanks in anticipation.
P.S Incidentally, in this matter as
well as in many other issues (e.g. allowing the Ministry to issue all sorts of
instructions impinging on the supervisory and regulatory role of the RBI over
banks), we are able to see how autonomous the Central Bank is ! In recent
periods, the attack on the independence and autonomy of the RBI has become more
pronounced.
- A.Chandramouliswaran, former Executive Director
The Economy and the words pass through
......Hope the economy will pass through the difficult phase and wisdom will dawn upon the policy makers to set right the wrongs and put back the economy back in safe and speedy growth track.
Read the views expressed by Dr.T.V.Gopalakrishnan........
RBI relaxes ECB norms for low-cost housing firms
.............To start with, developers with as little as three years of experience can now raise money through external commercial borrowings (ECBs) compared with the earlier mandatory clause of five years of construction experience, RBI said in a notification on its website. The builder should have a good track record in terms of quality and delivery.............
RBI gives banks more time to implement card security features
.........With a view to providing uninterrupted services to customers, it has been decided to grant an extension of time, the RBI said in a notification. The new deadline for banks to comply with all security features such as EMV chip on cards, real time fraud monitoring system, use of PIN, limit on transactions and the like is November 30, it said. The deadline has been extended following representations from stakeholders. The RBI further said “in the event of a customer complaining of misuse of the card after the date stipulated (deadline)...the issuer or the acquirer who has not adhered to the timelines should bear the loss.’’..........
SBI to pay Rs 34000 for delay in refund
The State Bank of India (SBI) has been directed by a consumer forum here to pay Rs 34,000 to a customer for violating RBI norms by refunding after 189 days an amount which was erroneously debited from his account after an unsuccessful ATM transaction. The North East District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum observed that SBI had not adhered to Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) directive under which it was obligated to credit back the amount within seven days.........
Family vs professionals? Yes, it's a dilemma
.........At present, the bank’s board is headed by MR Srinivasan, with 35 years of experience with RBI, as chairman. Radha Singh, a former bureaucrat with 39 years in the IAS, is an independent director. Ravish Chopra, the former managing director of HSBC, is member of the fraud monitoring committee. The other members on the Yes Bank board include Lt Gen Mukesh Sabharwal, as chairman of the investors relations committee, Diwan Arun Nanda, former CMD of Rediffusion-Y&R, who is on the remunerations committee, and Ajay Vohra, who has 28 years of experience in domestic and international tax. Nanda, Chopra and Srinivasan are wholetime directors...............
ICICI Bank to open branches in Aus, SA and Mauritius
India’s second biggest bank, ICICI Bank Ltd is looking for the overseas expansion by opening branches in Australia, South Africa and Mauritius. The largest private sector lender is also looking to open a full-fledged branch in China, where it already has a representative office, the managing director and CEO, Chanda Kochhar said during the bank’s 19th Annual General Meeting (AGM) here...........
RBI advises retail depositors to play safe
....."Before investing in schemes that promise high rates of return investors must ensure that the entity offering such returns is registered with one of the financial sector regulators and is authorised to accept funds, whether in the form of deposits or otherwise. Investors must generally be circumspect if the interest rates or rates of return on investments offered are high," the RBI advisory says............
NPCI Launches RuPay PaySecure, an e-commerce Solution
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the umbrella organization of all retail payment systems in India, today announced the much-anticipated RuPay PaySecure e-commerce solution at an inaugural event in Mumbai. RuPay PaySecure solution, which is devoted to serve the citizens of India with exceptional and user-friendly features, was launched by Shri H. R. Khan, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in the presence of Indian banking stalwarts. With the RuPay PaySecure solution, anyone having RuPay cards can make online payments to fulfill various need-based services such as reservations, booking, ticketing, shopping, utility bill payments in a secured manner...............
Federal Bank to sponsor Tata White Label ATMs
Tata Communications Payment Solutions Ltd (TCPSL) plans to install 15,000 Automated Teller Machines in three years, Federal Bank said. It would take care of functions such as cash operations and management, dispute resolution management and reporting to regulators. TCPSL, a subsidiary of Tata Communications, has approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up WLAs.........
IndusInd Bank launches credit card with 22K gold inlay
.............“The IndusInd Bank Indulge credit card will provide customers with a world of limitless possibilities to match their refined lifestyle needs. With a 22K gold inlay on the card plastic and many lifestyle benefits that are industry firsts, the IndusInd Bank Indulge credit card will redefine the way the customer sees and uses his credit card at the upper end of the spectrum,” ..............
Saradha fallout: Govt puts curbs on new co-op societies
Alarmed by a spurt in the registration of new cooperative societies, mostly credit ones, around the time the now-infamous Saradha chit fund scam broke out in West Bengal, the Union has put checks on such registrations. The government suspected that chit fund companies were filing for registrations as cooperative societies. Interestingly, one name in the pending list of applicants was also from a credit cooperative society called Ma Sarada Agro Multi-State Cooperative Credit Society Ltd from West Bengal...........
After The Gold Rush: A Perfect Antidote To Nouriel Roubini
.........Less familiar to American readers but certainly of no less importance to the debate is career central banker Savak Sohrab Tarapore, formerly Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), of course, is the central bank of the world’s largest democracy — one of the BRICS. It is a key institution with, perforce, great direct influence on the fortunes of over a billion people and indirect influence on the rest of the world............
Filling the Income Tax Return form
........The government has made many amendments to the Income Tax Act 1961, in the Budget 2013-14. While filing the return, you have to keep in mind the changes. Then, you have to understand the form that you have to fill.............
Your ITR is Safe With Gates’ Pics
Your
taxes are dear to the income tax department, but your returns are even
dearer, so the department has ensured that they are kept in world-class
safe keeping. Iron Mountain, the safe-keeper of the wills of Princess
Diana, Charles Darwin, Bill Gates’ Corbis photographic collection and
the recordings of Frank Sinatra, makes sure that your tax returns are
safe once they land with the department. “Printed documents are bar-coded and then sent to the company’s storage houses,”.........
Read - ET
Read - ET
Monday, June 24, 2013
RBI’s monetary policy stance apt in current economic milieu - T.V.Gopalakrishnan
..............Prudence demands that the RBI does not overlook these ground realities and go in for a reduction in policy rates to suit the sentiments of the market or expectations of some segments in the economy. The RBI’s concerns can be well gauged from the policy statement, where it categorically observed that “while several measures have been taken to contain the current account deficit, there is an urgent need to be vigilant about the global uncertainty, the rapid shift in risk perceptions and its impact on capital flows.”............
Waiting for Godot
..........It was only two weeks ago that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's new favourite, Economic Advisor to the Government of India, Raghuram Rajan, reassured the public that the persistent fall in the value of the rupee was an aberration which would soon get corrected. Insiders within North Block say that Rajan is the PMO's favoured candidate to take over from RBI Governor D. Subbarao when that worthy finally bids goodbye to the central bank in a few months time, after having caused a steep slowdown in growth through a restrictive monetary policy.............
A new independence
For the first 40 years after Independence, the regulation of the Indian economy was by departments of the government. The exception was the Reserve Bank of India. It was created in 1935 as the apex monetary authority to regulate currency and finance. However, it worked closely with the Central government. Independent views and policies occurred only under governors who were strong personalities....................
RBI easing KYC norms to remove hurdles in opening new bank accounts
..............The Reserve Bank of India is looking to remove hurdles faced by customers in opening new bank accounts. In its bid to make the process hassle-free, a team of senior officials from the RBI, including its Executive Director B. Mahapatra, Regional Director, Sadakkatadulla and the Banking Ombudsman Sujatha E. Prasad, were in the city to seek suggestions from the public. Coimbatore is the second city for the visiting team...........
Other safeguards for RBI
......Households have increasingly shifted from cash to credit cards (a form of credit line). Commercial banks rely primarily on the central bank as the lender of last resort (an implicit credit line). It is only central banks that rely primarily on reserves rather than on credit lines. It is high time they modernised as well...........
Bank officials frown at writing on the notes
.....................In the last fiscal, the RBI detected 35,000 pieces of counterfeit notes in the State. Officials of RBI, Chennai region, said that they discourage scribbling on the currency notes as it reduces the life of the note and obstructs detection of forgery. It is against the RBI’s clean note policy. Notes with political and religious messages will lose exchange value. “We have received complaints about various government departments indulging in such practices. We write to the head of the departments such as BSNL and India Post advising them to stop the practice,” said an official. The RBI recently trained staff of BSNL and police on detection of fake currency notes. For complaints and training programmes, RBI can be reached at 044-25362041 or at rdchennai@rbi.org.in.
My View on 'Executive' appreciation for VITALINFO...................
Dear Mangesh,
Hearty
congratulations. You richly deserve the appreciation. I am happy that Deepali
has chosen to convey her appreciation to you in writing.
– A.Chandramouliswaran, Former Executive Director
Congrats. Many are benefited reading VITALINFO daily. It also
gets widely circulated among bankers, professionals and academicians. Keep it
up.
– Dr.T.V.Gopalakrishnan, Ex- CGM
Congrats Mangesh. Keep
up the good work. All the best.
Kishore Savkur, Ex-Chief General Manager
A truly well-deserved
accolade from RBI's Executive Director. To that add that here is one from
a septuagenarian retiree.
Every morning we
look forward eagerly to VITALINFO. It reaches the nook and cranny of Indian
Banking world and feeds us effortlessly all the developments. We can do without
the Pink Dragons but cannot afford to miss VITALINFO. I learnt from
VITALINFO of a theft in RBI Santacruz Quarters. Even my friends staying in
Quarters did not know! What is more admirable is that it is all one man's
effort. Long Live my good friend Mangesh Tarambale and May his daily grow from
strength to strength.
- P P Ramachandran
(PPR), Ex-DGM
Congratulations for your sincere efforts for use of all of us
and appreciation received from our ED.
– V.P.Arya, Ex-General Manager
Congratulations ! Excellent.
– Sandip
Ghose, Ex-CGM-in-Charge
Hearty congratulations Dear Shri
Mangesh ji.
- JRP Ratnarao, Ex-CGM
Deepali deserves a word
of gratitude for expressing her appreciation of the effort Mangesh is putting in to put together VITALINFO
and ensuring that the mail reaches us early morning everyday. Many of us have started
expecting timely arrival of VITALINFO, sometimes forgetting that it is just an individual's hard
work in the early morning that creates VITALINFO and there is no back office support for
Mangesh.
- M G
Warrier, Ex-General Manager
Congrats!! Please keep it up –
- M O Sebastian, Ex-General Manager
Dear Mangesh
Heartiest greetings to
you for receiving appreciation for the wonderful work done by you. We all the
members of EXRBITES Group, join Mrs. Deepali Pant Joshi in congratulating you
for the hard work you are putting up single handedly day in and day out. I would like to assure you that half of our
members are starting their day with VITALINFO.
Please keep it up.
– Madan
Gauria, Moderator, EXRBITES Group
Dear Mangesh Sir,
At least, I for one, look for your
'VITALINFO' as one of the most important messages in the site. It is indeed
yeoman's service that you are doing to the fraternity, Sir. Certainly you
deserve appreciation from the Bank. We all join Shri. Madan Sir to congratulate
you on the occasion. Hope you will continue to provide such vital information
to the EXRBITES.
- S. I. QUADRI, ASST. MANAGER,
HRMD, RBI, BANGALORE
I am very happy to read that your work has been appreciated
by the Executive Director of our Reserve Bank. I give my hearty congratulations
to you on your receiving the certificate of appreciation from the top officer
of the Bank. You have been doing a tremendous work and providing us instant
information regarding bank and banking industry every morning. Wish you all the
best.
- R K Gujar, Ex-Private Secretary
CONGRATULATIONS ! Best wishes and regards,
- C S R Nair
Dear Shri Mangesh
Tarambale,
Hearty
congratulations on your receiving the well deserved appreciation from RBI. It
is a relentless service. Kindly keep it up. with best wishes and regards,
- Rang Pal
Gupta, Jammu
Dear Shri Mangesh Tarambale,
Hearty congratulations on your receiving
the well deserved appreciation from RBI. It is a relentless service.
- Vathsala Jayaraman
Appreciation well deserved-RBI can
simply adopt Sri Tarambale's mail for their MI desk. With
humble regards
- Badri
Congratulations
– K. Ramamoorthy
DEAR MANGESH, CONGRATULATION
– J.C.Khurana
Dear Sir, I am very happy that your useful contribution to
RBI fraternity has been appreciated by ED Ms Deepali Pant Joshi.
Congratulations.
- Sarveswara
Hearty congratulations. May God bless.
- Ramanath Nakhate, Ex-DGM
Congratulations for
receiving the appreciations from the Working Executive of the Bank. Such
appreciations would go long way in working with great spirit.
- K R P Rao, Ex-General Manager
My heartiest congratulations. You are just excellent.
- Dr. Ashutosh Raravikar, Assistant Adviser, DEPR
Dear Mangesh Good Morning, Hearty Congratulations.
Keep it up.
- Rajendra
Shringarpure, PS to Deputy Governor (KCC)
Great
compliment. Congratulations.
-
Vyankatesh Dange, PS, DEPR
Congratulations sir Keep it up
– N.P.Bhingarkar, Pharmacist
Dear Tarambale,
Congratulations !!! You really deserve this appreciation for your
efforts.
- Lathika Pillai, Private
Secretary
Mangeshji, Really nice on her part to go such a great length to send a
letter like that. Needless to say it is richly deserved.
- Manas Mohanty, General
Manager/MoF, CAB
Congratulations
and all the best. Regards.
– Jyoti
Kumar Pandey, General Manager, Kolkata
Really great. Congratulations.
– Sundar Murthy, AGM/MoF, CAB
Dear
Tarambalejee,
CONGRATULATIONS.
This is one more feather in your cap. Is any space left to accommodate this
feather? Please increase the size of your cap because many feathers will come
in future.
- Prakash
Joshi, AGM (Tech), Ahmedabad
Excellent
–
S.S.Sapre, AM, CAB
Dear Tarambale
Sahab,
I am so happy to
note that your efforts have been recognized and complimented at the highest
level. I have said so on numerous occasions. Please keep up the good work.
- Yashpal,
P & SO
U deserve it.
– Sushama
Dhawde, PS
Congrats.
–
S.Kulkarni, AM, HRMD
Great ! Congratulations………..
– Amin
Anand, PS
Congrates, our
Top Management is appreciating your work by doing good things for all of them.
- C.B.
Paunikar, PS to RD, Nagpur
Kudos Mangesh
ji.. Way to go!!... Rgds,
- V.G.Sekar,
General Manager, Jaipur
Congratulations
and keep it up.
- Smt.
Bharati Bhide, Manager, CAB
Congrats. All
the best for all your noble ,selfless future endeavours.
– Snehalata Joshi, AM, CAB
Congratulations Dear Tarambale. First mail we see in the morning is
VITALINFO.
- A U Shaikh
Congratulations on receiving appreciation from RBI
for you commendable work.
- Subhash Chandra
A brief history of the evolution of the State Bank of Pakistan
..........This eventually led to the merger of the three Presidency Banks into the Imperial Bank of India in 1920. The Imperial Bank of India was proposed as an institution with overall – as opposed to territorial – presence in India. From its inception, the Imperial Bank of India had the status of a quasi-central bank, which undertook banking functions and managed the rupee debt of the government until the formation of the RBI in 1935. After the creation of RBI, the Imperial Bank acted as its agent – a structure still followed after the partition of India, before the State Bank of Pakistan was finally formed in 1948.
SBI to hire 10,000 officers, employees in current fiscal
........."We will be hiring 10,000 people this year, including 1,500 probationary officers, the process for which started in April. About 7,500 will be retiring this fiscal," SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said. "We have upgraded our branches, all have become air-conditioned. We have adequately staffed our branches. In the last quarter, we recruited 20,000 assistant grade employees at front office,"....................
Retirement savings seminar: Be prepared for the unknowns
.....While saving for retirement, one needs to be prepared for the six unknowns—under-investment risk, the risk of longevity, failure to account for sudden spikes in monthly expenses, the dominance of a non-income-generating asset like real estate in the portfolios, low growth of assets and post-retirement support...................
Maha to get 15,000 micro-ATMs from Centre for rural inclusion
In order to facilitate financial inclusion of people from remote areas in the state, Maharashtra will get around 15,000 micro-ATMs from Centre. Moreover, as many as 20,000 Business Correspondents (BCs) will be appointed for the purpose of taking banking to the doorstep of the people in remote areas by allowing them to do transactions at Point of Sale or PoS (the micro ATM)......
EDB Becomes First Regional Bank To Launch KCC-ATM Cards
Ellaquai Dehati Bank (EDB) became the first regional bank of the State to launch KCC-ATM and ATM RuPay Debit Card. Launching the card, Shri Farooq Ahmad Shah, District Development Commissioner Srinagar appreciated the role played by the bank in the economic development of the State.........
Banks start counting losses
Leading public sector bnks, particularly State Bank of India, are staring at a substantial loss of business in flood-affected Uttarakhand. Worse, they would face problems in recovering existing loans due to the damage caused to the properties in the region. ................
The success behind the great Arun Panchariya
.....In 1998, he joined Panchariya Gin Pvt. Ltd. where he got experience of the ginning industry. After an efficient management of trading business, he started a better focus on the industry of finance and banking. He used to handle audits of Reserve Bank of India and meanwhile, he learned all the banking policies, and attended a number of seminars to keep himself updated with the latest things happening in the banking industry. Up to this point, Arun had about 20 years of rigorous and exhaustive experience in the field of services of finance which undertake all kinds of retail, Investment and Private banking........
New RBI sub-section to boost credit flow to residential projects
......In case the FSI of the commercial area in the predominantly residential housing complex exceeds the ceiling of 10 per cent, the project loans should be classified as CRE and not CRE-RH, the RBI has said. RBI further said that, “…our extant instruction requiring additional risk-weight of 25 percentage points for restructured housing loans and higher provisioning of 2 percent for housing loans extended at teaser rates by banks will continue to remain in force.”
Sahara freeze order gets Sebi Rs 52 cr in cash, investments
....After passing its attachment orders, Sebi informed all the banks, depositories, mutual funds and NBFCs, among others, about the matter and also requested Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to direct the chiefs of the banks to transfer the money of Sahara firms to a designated Sebi account. Sebi had also approached the Collectors of as many as 600 districts to request them not to permit the concerned Sahara entities and persons from any sale or transfer of properties attached by the regulator..........
Layout loan scam worth Rs 52cr, not Rs 57L
...... "Without proper documents, nationalized banks deny even opening account to common man. So, how can BoI sanction such a big amount for non-existing plots. RBI should take cognisance of the case," ...........
My View on "FM to meet PSU banks Executives on 26th"
...for strict adherence of regulatory requirements in banks own and in the interests of the economy. The tendency to question the regulatory requirements at the cost of the economy and banks' own discipline needs to be curbed......
Read the views expressed by Dr.T.V.Gopalakrishnan
Why IMF may be wrong on 'inflation targeting'
......While independent central banks can be credited for initially anchoring inflationary expectations, the reality, however, is that "inflation targeting" also inflated the asset bubbles that were the ultimate triggers of the recent global financial crisis. The IMF has perhaps failed to give due credit to two major structural changes in the global economy that kept, and are keeping, inflation low, undermining the traditional role of consumer price inflation as a robust marker of business cycles........
FM's meeting with PSU bankers on June 26 postponed
........"The meeting with the Finance Minister stands postponed as some bankers requested the Finance Ministry for deferment because their annual general meeting (AGM) coinciding with the meeting date," ..............
‘Banks Should Go After Wilful Defaulters to Control Bad Loans’ - Rajiv Takru
It has been a little under six months after Rajiv Takru took over as secretary, department of financial services, or DFS, which handles state-owned banks, financial and investment institutions such as LIC, besides policies relating to pensions
.........There is no doubt that the only way for
an economy to grow is to have financial inclusion. But it does not mean
that anyone who applies will get a licence. I am sure RBI has no
intention of being reckless. Due diligence, super due diligence must be
done before someone is given permission. Because the last thing we want
is a dicey character coming here and fooling around in the banking
sector. Actually all the major failures have been because banks have
gone fooling around and giving loans in wrong places and because of
ownerships, connections and lack of firewalls. People were allowed to
take money and then siphon it out. This has happened the world over. So
why do you think that RBI is going through this elaborate exercise of
internal committee and external committee...........
Read - ET
RBI hurdle in Bengal savings scheme
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) reluctance to let non-banking financial entities accept public deposits has put a question mark on the savings scheme West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had announced on May 9. The West Bengal government too is aware of the hurdles in launching the investment scheme that was proposed after the ponzi bubble burst to expose the Saradha Group and other deposit collecting firms.........
Irda may allow banks sell products from multiple insurers
Despite the Reserve Bank of India's apprehensions, insurance regulator Irda is set to issue guidelines allowing banks to sell products of many insurance companies as against those of only one life and one non-life insurer at present. These guidelines will, however, come with some stringent provisions against mis-selling of such products by banks. The final decision on the revised norms on bancassurance — or banks selling insurance products — is likely to be taken at the Irda board meeting slated to held on June 28, finance ministry sources said............
AllBank thrust on selling insurance
.....As part of the Reserve Bank’s financial inclusion programme, AllBank has covered 2,618 villages with a population of 2,000 and above. The bank is also looking to cover over 12,000 villages with a population of less than 2,000 by 2016. However, despite the focus of the IRDA, the sale of micro-insurance products remains a challenge.........
SBT tells customers to ‘cover’ positions in forex market
.......The bank had lined up a number of experts dealing in forex market and related fields to update the audience on what had triggered the precipitous fall of the rupee in recent times, among other things. “Ensure you are effectively covered and at no cost should any position kept open for long” was the advice tendered to anxious customers, ...........
Risk-off this time too should pass
....The biggest positive in our economy perhaps comes from the substantial moderation in WPI inflation, to within the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) comfort level. Food inflation too, is likely to moderate. I believe, the onset of a normal monsoon, decent rabi production in FY2013 and expectations of moderate minimum support price hikes bode positively to support the moderation in food inflation. These factors are likely to give RBI room to cut the repo by an additional 50 basis points to support economic growth...............
What if a cheque bounces?
Bounced
cheques are one of the most common offences plaguing the financial
world. According to the Supreme Court, there are over 40 lakh such
pending cases in the country. A cheque can be dishonoured for various
reasons, the most common being insufficient funds in the account of the
person drawing the cheque, and a mismatch of signatures with the bank
records. But what do you do if you land a bad cheque? Here’s a
step-by-step guide to the legal recourse that is available to you.......
Read - ET
Read - ET
Who regulates the deposit takers?
While it is well known that banks are governed by RBI, most people don't know about the regulating bodies for companies that accept monetary deposits from the public. Here's a listing of the regulators you can approach if you are duped by any one of these firms............
Use debt to beat volatility
......With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deciding not to cut repo rates, despite market expectation to the contrary, investors who positioned themselves for a rate cut by investing in long-term debt funds or gilt funds have been stranded. The outlook for an interest rate cut is not as clear now, as rupee depreciation could drive up inflation, which could further curb RBI's ability to cut rates............
Not Kapoor vs Kapur
It is perhaps for the first time in the corporate history of India that a court has stipulated the date for a meeting of a board of directors, set its main agenda, directed a decision be taken and, finally, subject that board decision to a judicial review. This is unprecedented even by the current standards of judicial activism. Much as the press has spiced it and played it up as a family squabble, the real issue at stake here is the very concept of a board-run, professionally managed company. In other words, corporate governance itself. What has happened so far severely questions that and has the potential to compromise the powers of the board...........
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