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Deposit Insurance for Bank Deposits- DICGC and Banks

Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) offers insurance protection for deposits up to Rs. 5,00,000 held in same ownership/right in each bank. Deposits in same capacity held in different branches of same bank or different

Positive Pay System for CTS and Banks

Positive Pay System for Cheque Truncation System (CTS) is the concept muted by Reserve Bank of India, banking regulator, to make cheque based transactions safer by minimising frauds. The plan to introduce Positive Pay System for Cheque

Delisting of Equity Shares- Process

Delisting of equity shares grabbed the attention of investors in India as various media began to cover the announcement made by mining major, Vedanta in May, 2020.Compared to listing of shares, delisting of shares occurs rarely and

Guaranteed Emergency Credit Line (GECL) for MSMEs-Lenders guaranteed by NCGTC

Guaranteed Emergency Credit Line (GECL) is the loan extended to eligible MSMEs/ Business Enterprises being 20 per cent of the loan outstanding as on February 29,2020. The Finance Minister had announced a collateral free, guaranteed credit scheme

CGTMSE Coverage for Micro and Small Enterprises

CGTMSE coverage for Micro and Small Enterprises is an initiative of the Government of India and SIDBI to ensure bank credit to Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) without the insistence for collateral securities or third party guarantees.

Essential Commodities Act (EC Act) and its impacts

Essential Commodities Act (EC Act) is an act enacted in 1955 by the Parliament of India with a view to ensuring availability of commodities declared as ‘essential’ at fair price. The EC act aims to avoid hoarding

M-POS (Mobile Point of Sale) & Digital Banking

M-POS or Mobile Point-Of-Sale terminal is a smartphone or tablet equipped with an application/ software provided by a vendor to convert it as a POS terminal. A dedicated wireless device that performs the functions of a cash

SLF-MF(Special Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds)

Special Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds was an unusual window announced by the Reserve Bank of India for ensuring liquidity support to mutual funds. RBI announced the Special Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds (SLF-MF) on April 27,2020

WMA limit enhancement – How much?

WMA (Ways and Means Advance) facility enables states and Central government to tide over short term mismatches in cash flow by availing loan from the central bank.  On April 17,2020 RBI announced an increase in  the ways

Ways and Means Advance (WMA)–What is it?

Ways and Means Advance (WMA) is a mechanism through which RBI extends funding support to states and central government to enable them to tide over temporary cash flow mismatches. This can be considered similar to a bank