Responding to a questions on allegations that banks have deposited one rupee in Jandhan accounts to reduce number of zero balance accounts, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said 4 PSU banks are investigating that whether money in some Jandhan accounts was deposited by account holders or by business correspondents to keep the number of Read more…
11th Bipartite Settlement (Bank Wage Revision) is due on 1st November 2017. Government had already written to Banks and IBA on 12.01.2016. Despite the initiative taken by Finance Ministry, there is no progress shown by Bank employee Bank employees unions and officers associations on issue of 11th Bipartite Settlement. Public Read more…
See: Expected DA for February 2017 to April 2017 Increase in Dearness Allowance for Bank Employees for November 2016 to January 2017 is 2.30%. [See Actual DA for November 2016 to February 2017 to see scale wise Chart of DA and calculations] This article was updated on 31.08.2017 Expected increase Read more…
RBI/2016-17/62 DBR.No.Leg.BC. 13/09.07.005/2016-17 September 8, 2016 The Managing Directors/Chief Executive Officers All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including RRBs) Dear Sir, Income Declaration Scheme, 2016 – Acceptance of Cash Over the Counter Please refer to the Circular DBOD.No.Leg.BC.38/09.07.005/2008-09 dated August 28, 2008 wherein banks have been advised to ensure that their branches Read more…
FEDAI has issued guidelines regarding joint holding in NRO accounts with residents. The guidelines have been issued by FEDAI based on clarifications sought from RBI. The FEDAI guidelines are given as under: Joint holding with residents Reference para 7 of schedule 3 of Reserve Bank of India notification number FEMA Read more…
RBI has issued fresh FAQs on Know Your Customer (KYC) guidelines. (Updated up to September 02, 2016) (This is a summarised and simplified version of the Reserve Bank of India’s Know Your Customer guidelines.) Q1. What is KYC? Why is it required? Response: KYC means “Know Your Customer”. It is Read more…
Is TDS eating up your salary and you feel that you get less in hand salary? You would be already aware about the various tax saving instruments (like Deductions Section 80C, 80D or deduction of housing loan interest) but do you know you can save more tax with the a little more Read more…
Here is the comparison of MCLR (Marginal Cost based Lending Rates) rates of all the major banks in India. These MCLR Rates are updated from time to time. Lowest MCLR is of State Bank of India. MCLR Rate is the minimum lending rate and all the loan products are linked to Read more…
Reserve Bank of India on September 1, 2016 issued notification and letter to Credit Information Companies (CIC) to provide one free Credit Information Report (CIR) in a year (January to December). CIBIL (Credit Information Bureau of India Limited) is the leading CIC and most of the banks/ FIs use CIBIL to draw CIRs Read more…
Bank union have decided to join the strike called by trade unions on 2nd September to protest against anti-people policies of the Modi government and labour reforms. All-India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) General Secretary C H Venkatchalam said “There have been increasing attacks in the banking industry and the government has been Read more…