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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development approves India’s membership

The shareholders of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have given their nod to India’s candidature to international financial institution. With this, India will become the 69th...

March 7, 2018

PSBs begin to rationalise 35 overseas operations

The state-owned banks have started rationalising overseas operations by consolidating 35 operations and closing down non-viable branches as part of the clean and responsible banking initiative. The consolidation...

March 3, 2018

CBDT achieves important milestone of signing 200 APAs

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has crossed an important milestone of having signed 200 Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs). It was achieved after it entered into seven...

March 2, 2018

RBI raises ETCD trading limit to $100 million

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised exposure limit under exchange traded currency derivatives (ETCD) trading for residents and foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) to $100 million across all...

February 27, 2018

FIU categorises 9,491 NBFCs as high risk for PMLA non-compliance

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) under Finance Ministry has categorised around 9,491 non-banking financial companies (NBFC) as high risk prone financial institutions as they have not complied with...

February 27, 2018

RBI launches Ombudsman scheme for NBFCs

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched Ombudsman Scheme for non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) for redressal of complaints against NBFCs registered with RBI under section 45-IA of...

February 24, 2018

RBI directs banks to link SWIFT to core banking solutions by April 2018

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed banks to link SWIFT (Society for World Interbank Financial Telecommunication System platform) with their core banking solutions (CBS) by April...

February 24, 2018

RBI constitutes YH Malegam committee to monitor bad loans, rising cases of frauds, audits

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has constituted an expert committee to look into the entire gamut of issues relating to classification of bad loans, effectiveness of audits and...

February 21, 2018

NPCI allows Whatsapp to beta test its payments service with limited users

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has allowed Facebook-owned WhatsApp to beta test its BHIM UPI beta payments service with limited user base of 1 million and...

February 18, 2018

Yes Bank lists $600 million MTN bond on India INX

India’s fifth largest private sector lender Yes Bank has listed $600 million bond issued under its maiden $1 billion MTN programme on Global Securities Market (GSM) of India...

February 15, 2018

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