Assignment of Lead Bank Responsibility

Amalgamation of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda has been notified vide Gazette of India Notification G.S.R. 2(E) dated January 2, 2019. The Notification called the ‘Amalgamation of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda Scheme, 2019’ has come into force on April 1, 2019. In view of the above,…

Minimum Standards for a Currency Chest

1.  The Bank had constituted a Committee on Currency Movement (CCM) [Chair: Shri D.K. Mohanty, Executive Director]. The Committee, inter-alia, recommended that the Reserve Bank should encourage banks to open large Currency Chests (CCs) with modern facilities and Chest Balance Limit (CBL) of at least ₹ 10 billion. Accordingly, RBI decided to have the following…

Basel III Framework on Liquidity Standards – Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), Liquidity Risk Monitoring Tools and LCR Disclosure Standards

Presently, the assets allowed as Level 1 High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLAs) for the purpose of computing the LCR of banks, inter alia, include (a) Government securities in excess of the minimum SLR requirement and, (b) within the mandatory SLR requirement, Government securities to the extent allowed by RBI under (i) Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)…

3-bank merger: BoB will be net job creator, says CEO PS Jayakumar

MUMBAI: The complete integration of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank with Bank of BarodaNSE -0.86 % (BoB) is expected to take nearly 18 months. But customers will reap the benefits much earlier. BoB will be providing cash deposit and withdrawal facility in all branches by May. In an interview with TOI, BoB MD & CEO PS Jayakumar speaks of what customers, employees and investors can expect.

RBI may for now leave it to banks to decide how best to deal with defaulting companies – Govt may nudge PSBs to deal with defaulting firms

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will, for the time being, leave it to individual banks to decide how best to deal with corporate loan defaulters, and the government will exercise its majority shareholder rights to nudge state run banks to take insolvent companies to bankruptcy courts

Institute is pleased to announce Self-Paced E-learning courses (SPeL) for two of its certificate courses namely 1. Digital Banking and 2. Ethics in Banking

Institute is pleased to announce Self-Paced E-learning courses (SPeL) for two of its certificate courses namely 1. Digital Banking and 2. Ethics in Banking.

Finance Ministry asks six public sector banks to improve on PCA parameters

The Finance Ministry has asked the 6 remaining PSBs, currently under PCA, to improve on 7 parameters to get the Govt’s support for coming out of the PCA framework.

The Reserve Bank introduces Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions

As announced in the Monetary Policy Statement of December 5, 2018, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched on 31st January 2019, the Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions (OSDT) vide Notification dated January 31, 2019 for redressal of complaints against System Participants as defined in the said Scheme.  Follow the link for the Scheme: The Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions, 2019…

Awareness About Union Bank of India

Dear Friends, At this juncture when Union Bank of India is celebrating its Centenary New Year and Bank Promotions are in process I feel delighted to present the Book entitled Awareness about Union Bank of India. This book contains awareness about Union Bank of India startiting from its History, Vision, Mission, Organisational Structure, various Joint…

Shaktikanta Das is new RBI governor

With the appointment of Shaktikanta Das as the new governor of the RBI, the top position at the central bank returns to a career bureaucrat after a gap of five years when D. Subbarao demitted office in 2013