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Banks roll out robots as pandemic shakes up IT plans

Industry experts say the pandemic has focused bank executives’ minds when it comes to IT spend and more digitally savvy lenders will steal a march on competitors.

“There is a digital divide,” Jerry Silva, global banking research director at IDC said. “Sometimes I call it the predatory gap, because those banks are going to be able to steal market share from those that weren’t prepared prior to 2020.”

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Insures should partner banks to issue Surety Bonds​​​​​​​:IRDAI Panel

Instead of Insurance industry handling alone, a mechanism is required wherein the banking sector and the insurance sector could collaborate for sharing of customer information since banks have more experience in managing these types of risks, suggested the panel..

To start with performance bonds / surety bonds can be issued limited to the projects of NHAIs only and not for all the contractors. The rate should be determined by a market agreement, suggested the panel

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Bank of England says company disclosures on climate risks will be mandatory

“Disclosing your plans can improve your credit rating, broaden your investor base, reduce your cost of finance, and economize on the fixed costs of meeting increasingly vocal investor requests for information,” the BoE’s executive director for markets, Andrew Hauser, told an Investment Association online event on Friday.

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Women beneficiaries comprise maximum number of a/c holders under PMJDY at 55pc

The deposits in these PMJDY accounts witnessed an 8.5 per cent rise till early September of the current fiscal year to nearly Rs 1.30 lakh crore, according to the information provided by the finance ministry. The total balance under the PMJDY accounts on April 1, 2020, was Rs 119,680.86 crore, which grew by 8.5 per cent to Rs 129,811.06 crore by September 9, 2020, the government said in the Right to Information (RTI) query.

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Retail cheque payments down to a trickle in FY20 to 2.96%: RBI data

Behind all these, the Reserve Bank has played the crucial role of an operator, catalyst and facilitator, regulator and supervisor.

Some recent RBI initiatives to enhance security and increase customer confidence in digital payments include mandating use of only EMV chip and PIN-based debit and credit cards from January 2019; tokenisation from January 2019; facility to switch on/off transactions; mandatory positive confirmation to remove any ambiguity of NEFT/RTGS funds transfers from March 2010, and January 2019, respectively.

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Axis Bank to offer pay hikes up to 12%

HDFC Bank Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Aditya Puri has assured employees of the country’s largest private sector lender that their jobs and bonuses are secure.The pay rises come as the coronavirus pandemic forces some local and global peers to cut jobs and pay. Many Indian lenders are seeking to save costs as the coronavirus is expected to push soured assets to a two-decade high

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