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Banking & Bancassurance

HDFC Bank’s Puri top earner among bankers in FY21; ICICI Bank’s Bakhshi forgoes salary in COVID year

Puri’s overall payments included Rs 3.5 crore as post-retirement benefits. Its immediate rival ICICI Bank’s MD and CEO Sandeep Bakhshi ”voluntarily relinquished” his fixed compensation of basic and supplementary allowances for FY21, which had seen the wide-scale impact of the COVID pandemic, as per the second-largest lender’s annual report.

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Bank employees working in sensitive positions to get surprise leaves of at least 10 days

In a communication to lenders, including rural development banks and cooperative banks, the RBI asked them to put in place a ‘mandatory leave’ policy as part of the prudent risk management measure.

During the mandatory leave, the bank employee will not have access to any physical or virtual resources related to the work responsibilities, with the exception of internal/ corporate email which is usually available to all employees for general purposes.

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India invites UK companies to invest in insurance sector

The Dialogue saw government-to-government discussions to strengthen cooperation on four key themes: Gujarat International Finance Tec (GIFT) City; banking and payments; insurance, and; capital markets. It was led by senior officials from the UK Treasury and the Indian Ministry of Finance, with participation from independent British and Indian regulatory agencies, BHC said.

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Global financial regulators attempt to align rules on climate risks

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), which coordinates financial rules for the G20 group of nations, said its “roadmap” seeks to coordinate approaches to disclosures by companies and plug gaps in the data needed to spot financial stability “vulnerabilities” and develop tools to address them.

The roadmap attempts to align rules still in the planning stage between now and 2023 to avoid more divergences between various measures for the same activity.

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