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Govt to hire 2 pvt sector professionals as JSs to manage MoF’s Cyber Security and Investment assignments
This is for the first time, the government has advertised to hire a...
Nagaraju Maddirala appointed as new DFS Secy
Nagaraju Maddirala, Secretary-Designate, Department of Financial...
To safeguard banking, SBI to introduce OTP-based ATM transactions from Jan
“This will safeguard the customers against the risk of unauthorized transactions on account of skimmed/cloned cards, while withdrawing cash at State Bank ATMs,” the bank said.
Banks see biggest job cull since 2015,cut a combined 77,780 jobs
This year, more than 50 lenders have announced plans to cut a combined 77,780 jobs, the most since 91,448 in 2015, according to filings by the companies and labor unions. Banks in Europe, which face the added burden of negative interest rates for years to come, account for almost 82% of the total.The 2019 cuts bring the total for the last six years to more than 425,000.
Total frauds at banks rise 74% to Rs 71,543 crore in 2018-19: RBI
“Public sector banks accounted for a bulk of frauds reported in 2018-19 — 55.4 per cent of the number of cases reported and 90.2 per cent of the amount involved — mainly reflecting the lack of adequate internal processes, people and systems to tackle operational risks,” the RBI’s report on ‘Trends and Progress of Banking 2018-19’ showed.
FinMin asks govt depts/agencies to continue to bank with IDBI
LIC is wholly-owned by the government and together with the government’s holding of 46.46 percent, the direct and indirect government holding in the bank is 97.46 percent, making it a quasi-sovereign entity.
Complaints to banking ombudsman rise 20% in FY19: RBI
The number of complaints pertaining to mis-selling have gone up from 579 complaints in 2017-18 to 1,115 in 2018-19, an increase of 92.57 per cent.
Big tech may be required to share customer data with financial firms
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) called in a report released on Sunday for “vigilant monitoring” of Big Tech’s shift into financial services, which it said could crimp the ability of banks to generate capital through retained profits.
Only up to Rs 1 lakh of depositor money insured in banks: RBI subsidiary
Asked whether there is any proposal or move under consideration to raise the limit of Rs 1 lakh insured in the bank in wake of the recent PMC Bank fraud, the DICGC said, “The corporation does not have the requisite information.”
PSBs reported frauds of over Rs 95,760 crore in six months: FM Sitharaman
Government mulls raising insurance cover on bank deposits to above Rs 1 lakh: Nirmala Sitharaman
Media report suggests the bank deposit insurance in the country may be split into two categories, with retail cover being raised to Rs 5 lakh, from the current level of Rs 1 lakh; and a new scheme being introduced for wholesale depositors at Rs 25 lakh. When given effect, it will be the first upward revision in deposit insurance after 1993.
Govt unveils norms for 100% FDI in insurance intermediaries sector
However if a bank, whose primary business is outside the insurance area, is allowed by the IRDAI to function as an insurance intermediary, the foreign equity investment caps applicable in that sector, which is 74 percent, will continue to apply, subject to the condition that the revenues of such entities from the primary (non-insurance related) business must remain above 50 per cent. of their total revenues in any financial year.