The Reserve Bank of India released the Financial Benchmark Administrators (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2019 on 26th June 2019. These directions shall apply to Financial Benchmark Administrators(FBA) administering ‘significant benchmarks’ in the markets for financial instruments regulated by the Reserve Bank. The identification of a benchmark as a ‘significant benchmark’ shall be based on use, efficiency…
Reserve Bank continues to receive complaints about non-acceptance of coins by bank branches, causing considerable inconvenience to the public at large. RBI therefore, once again advised to immediately direct all your branches to accept coins of all denominations tendered at their counters for transactions or exchange and ensure strict compliance in the matter.
Regulations on Interest Rate Derivatives have so far been issued separately for each product, including for products traded on exchanges. These regulations were framed with a view to guide the initial evolution of the market through prescriptive requirements. Given the evolution of the market, there is now a need to permit flexibility for exchanges and market-makers in the design and innovation of products while ensuring that relatively less informed participants using these derivatives markets are adequately protected.The directions being issued today are in line with this approach.
RBI Governor launched Complaint Management System on 24th June 2019. Complaint Management System(CMS) is a software application to facilitate RBI’s grievance redressal processes. Members of public can access the CMS portal at RBI’s website “Complaint Management System by RBI” to lodge their complaints against any of the entities regulated by RBI. It symbolizes RBI’s commitment…
Security Measures for ATMs
Directions on Governance of domestic CCPs authorised to operate in India by the RBI, the upper age limit for appointment of Director, Nominee Director, Independent Director and Chairperson has been revised to 70 years. The upper age limit for appointment of Managing Director shall continue to be 65 years.
The Reserve Bank has since reviewed the various charges levied by it on the member banks for transactions processed in the RTGS and NEFT systems. In order to provide an impetus to digital funds movement, it has been decided that with effect from July 1, 2019, processing charges and time varying charges levied on banks by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for outward transactions undertaken using the RTGS system, as also the processing charges levied by RBI for transactions processed in NEFT system will be waived by the Reserve Bank. The banks are advised to pass on the benefits to their customers for undertaking transactions using the RTGS and NEFT systems with effect from July 1, 2019.
The apex bank eased regulations for Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) Accounts, popularly known as ‘no-frills’ accounts. As part of the financial inclusion drive, the RBI had asked banks to provide BSBDA as a savings account offering – certain minimum facilities, free of charge. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said commercial banks need to…
The performance of chiefs of public and private sector banks should be closely monitored by the Board of Directors either through a sub-committee or an external peer group review, according to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das.
Reserve Bank of India has issued a new framework on 7th June 2019 for resolution of bad loans, replacing the previous norms quashed by the Supreme Court in April, offering a 30-day gap for stress recognition instead of the one-day default earlier. The apex court had on April 2 struck down the stringent RBI circular, issued…