Development Banks: An Overview

Development banks are the financial institutions that provide long-term credit for capitalintensive investments spread over a long period and yielding low rates of return, such as infrastructure projects, mining, heavy industry and irrigation systems.

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BANKING FINANCE

Treasury : New Profit Centre Of Banks

Later the inroads to different kinds of other profit making businesses opened for banks with RBI intervention and liberalization of the Indian economy. Slowly but steadily banks started venturing into new markets and dealing in different instruments like capital market, money market, foreign exchange market, bond market and derivatives market instruments to garner profit.

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BANKING FINANCE

Of Self Help Groups And Financial Inclusion In Poverty Reduction

Financial inclusion, in its narrowest connotation, can be construed as an endeavour that provides people, especially those in the hitherto un-banked region, a bank account.

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BANKING FINANCE

Now, Credit Cards Can Be Linked To UPI

The Resirve Bank of India said that credit cards will now be allowed to be linked to Unified Payments Interface accounts as UPI has become the most inclusive mode of payment in India.

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BANKING FINANCE

FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND MARKETS IN INDIA

A system that aims at establishing and providing a regular, smooth, efficient and cost effective linkage between depositors and investors is known as financial system. The functions of financial system are to channelize the funds from the surplus units to the deficit units. Financial system is one of the industries in an economy. It is a particularly important industry that frequently has a far reaching impact on society and the economy. But if its occult trappings are stripped it is like any industry, a group of firms that combine factors of production (land, labour and capital) under the general direction of a management team and produce a product or cluster of products for sale in financial market. The product of the financial industry is not tangible rather it is an intangible service. Financial industry as a whole, produces a wide range of services but all these services are related directly or indirectly to assets and liabilities, that is, claims on people, organization, institutions, companies and government. This is the process of diversion of the productive capacity of the conomy to the making of capital goods which increase future productive capacity. Process of capital formation involve three distinct but inter-dependent activities: savings, finance and investment. The financial system in process of capital formation has to decide as to how capital is to be used. Poor choice in deciding which economic projects are to be embarked upon, leads to wastage of resources. The better the quality of judgment exercised in allocation, the more rapid economic progress.

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BANKING FINANCE

RBI CIRCULAR

Restriction on Storage of Actual Card Data [i.e. Card-on-File (CoF)]

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BANKING FINANCE

UNLOCKING THE LAND MARKETS IN INDIA : A STEP TOWARDS BETTER CREDIT CULTURE AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE

A constitution as voluminous as ours surprisingly refers to land only fleetingly. Spread over 395 articles in 22 parts and eight schedules, the subject of land comes up in only four parts.

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BANKING FINANCE

SIGNIFICANT HURDLES IN MAKING FULL RANGE OF FINANCIAL SERVICES AVAILABLE TO ALL

Despite making rapid strides in digital transactions and expansion of universal banking services to the last mile, there are still significant hurdles in making the full range of financial services available to all sections of the population, especially those in low income groups and senior citizens.

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BANKING FINANCE

PRE-PACKAGED INSOLVENCY RESOLUTION PROCESS-A HYBRID FRAMEWORK TO SAVE VIABLE MSMES

MSME sector in India is second largest employment generator after agriculture, and acts as a breeding ground for entrepreneurs and innovators with considerable support in strengthening business ecosystem.

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BANKING FINANCE

E-RUPI

(A Prepaid Electronic Gift Voucher for specific purpose)

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BANKING FINANCE