Customers will not be charged for ATM withdrawals from April 1, Reserve Bank of India deputy governor V Leeladhar announced in Mumbai on Monday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party rejected this was any sort of demonetisation and instead reminded the Congress that even during the rule of Manmohan Singh, old currency notes were taken off circulation.
Munich-based Giesecke and Devrient supplies security features to the RBI for currency notes, and machines to bank branches across the country to detect counterfeits.
Top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday met the Election Commissioner to lodge their protest against the Centre's announcement of the direct cash transfer scheme ahead of Gujarat elections and demanded its withdrawal. Led by party leader L K Advani and Leaders of Opposition Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, the BJP delegation questioned the timing of the announcement and demanded its withdrawal to ensure free and fair elections in Gujarat.
A rising number of Greeks in rural areas are swapping goods and services in cashless transactions.
Many sections of the society including small traders, restaurant owners, transporters started feeling the heat as the dependence on cash is very high
'Investors should restrict themselves to a few category schemes with high quality portfolios apart from overnight and liquid funds.'
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What can households do with the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes? How can they find Rs 100 and smaller denominations?
The government has also announced a slew of measures to ease cash flow for the rural sector.
The government has proposed to dilute the controversial Fringe Benefit Tax, exempt savings account from the 0.1 per cent banking cash transaction tax and raise income tax exemption limit for women and senior citizens.
Y S Sharmila's message to voters in Kadapa is brief: 'I am YSR's daughter, my brother Jagan has ruined Andhra, vote for me, vote for Congress.' A Ganesh Nadar listens in.
As on June 16, currency in circulation was Rs 15.29 lakh cr, or 86.2% of pre-note ban level
Considering 12 per cent inflation and savings bank return of 4 per cent per annum all your cash burn out in 12 years.
In the excitement over the allocation of bank licences for the private sector, a new category of licence offered by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last year went almost unnoticed. That was when the RBI consolidated the rules for prepaid payment instruments (PPI), popularly understood as e-wallets or gift cards. In the process, the regulator has fast-forwarded a bottom-up card usage industry in India that is completely different from the world of bank-linked credit and debit cards.
Credit card owners can get a personal loan with little or no paperwork, and the rates are quite comparable.
SBI has announced an investment of Rs 7,250 crore in Yes Bank through the acquisition of 725 crore shares at Rs 10 each.
Isha was the custodian of the cash at the time it was being placed in the ATM.
A committee on digitalisation headed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu had in an interim report recommended taxing cash transactions of at least Rs 50,000 to promote digital payments.
The self-employed should invest in the National Pension System, a government-backed, low-cost retirement avenue where they can choose the mix of debt and equity that is right for them.
The RBI 'assured people' that enough cash in small denominations is also available at banks.
Provisional RBI data for November-December show a steady increase in card usage.
After the income tax department indicated that the Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB) did not provide the complete details of transactions worth up to Rs 3,610 crore, sources told Business Standard that this was due to a technical glitch. The bank has now submitted all the required documents in the past few days. According to the Income Tax (I-T) department, TMB had not submitted a statement of financial transactions (SFT) pertaining to cash deposits of around Rs 2,700 crore involving more than 10,000 accounts.
Besides the convenience that plastic money accords, it also helps the user to keep an easy track of their expenses.
'The focus needs to shift towards the ability to collect payments, particularly in tier-3 to tier-4 areas where acceptance is still lacking.'
Most of the lenders had informed their customers in advance about the strike call given by All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), All India Bank Officers' Association (AIBOA), BEFI, INBEF, INBOC and Bank Karmachari Sena Mahasangh (BKSM), and its impact on banking services.
Australian pacer Peter Siddle has put country before the Indian Premier League's (IPL) mega cash by withdrawing his name from the January 19 auction of the IPL.
Income velocity based on currency with the public went down from 0.93 in October to 0.84 in March says a report from SBI's economic research department
Large banks across the country might be crying foul on the recent suggestion of the Reserve Bank India (RBI) to do away with the charge on inter-bank ATM usage, but the Kolkata-based banks have largely welcomed the move.
The box had apparently been lying since February 23 after the employee of the cash replenishing agency forgot it outside the ATM, he said.
A visit to an ATM today can help you accomplish myriad value-added transaction services like utility payments, pre-paid mobile re-charge, credit card payments, tax payments and much more.
The first of a six-part series examines how the leather workers at Dharavi are coping after five weeks of demonetisation.
The FM has levied 0.1 per cent tax will be levied on withdrawal of cash of Rs 10,000 and above from banks on a single day. So if you withdraw Rs 10,000 from the bank on a single day, you will need to pay a tax of Rs 10 on it.
An independent report last week said the IWF was plagued by decades of corruption orchestrated by autocratic former president Tamas Ajan.
Credit card holders in India, who pay the highest rates of interest in the world, have been ripped of Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion) as "extra charges" by banks in a span of ten years, according to a rights group.
'What happens in the real estate market is that once the prices go up it goes on to stay at that level.' 'It might not increase and at the same time the prices will not come down too.'
The government would be ironing out issues related to the controversial 'bail-in' clause in the earlier Bill, explore hiking the deposit insurance cover of customers, and decide whether the resolution framework should apply to public sector banks.
The new fee structure would come into effect from July 1.
Anticipating panic and rush at bank counters, the Reserve Bank of India as well as the government has set up control rooms in Mumbai and the national capital to avoid any crisis, Department of Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das said.
The governor of a state has to act on the recommendation of the council of ministers, the Supreme Court said on Friday while dismissing an appeal challenging the decision of the Madras high court refusing to consider a petition against the continuance of V Senthil Balaji as a minister in the Tamil Nadu government despite his arrest.
