New list of eligible credit rating agencies for the risk weighting banks’ claims for capital adequacy purposes

The Securities and Exchange Board of India canceled the Certificate of Registration (CoR) granted to Brickwork Ratings India Private Limited as a Credit Rating Agency (CRA), on October 6, 2022. In view of that RBI on October 9, 2022, advised Regulated Entities/ Market Participants that in respect of ratings/credit evaluations required in terms of any…

SBI, HDFC and ICICI bank continue to be named as banks that are ‘Too big to fail’

The Reserve Bank of India on Monday released the 2022 list of Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs). State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank continue to be domestic systematically important banks (D-SIBs), under the same bucketing structure as in the 2021 list of D-SIBs. Systemically Important Banks (SIBs) are perceived as banks…

Why these small tax payers get IT notices?

Updated on January 1, 2023 Taxpayers generally receive I-T notices under Section 139(9), 143(1), 143(2), 143(3), 245, 144, 147, 148, 156 (notice of demand) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, due to non-filing of ITR, claiming of inauthentic tax refund, hiding of taxable income, computing excessive tax losses, long term capital gains (LTCG), scrutiny, among…

Govt hikes interest rate on SCSS, NSC and 5 other small saving instruments for Jan-March 2023

The government on Friday (December 30, 2022) has effected hike in interest rates of 8 small saving instruments for the January-March 2023 quarter. The interest rates of schemes like the Senior Citizen Savings Scheme, Monthly Income Savings Scheme, National Savings Certificate, Kisan Vikas Patra, and all post office time deposits have been hiked. However, rates…

Bank Holidays 2023 in Jammu and Kashmir

The administration of Jammu & Kashmir UT     declared the following days to be a public holiday during the year 2023. Sr.No Date Day Occasion/Festival Date 1 26.01.2023 Thursday REPUBLIC DAY 2 08.03.2023 Wednesday HOLI 3 30.03.2023 Thursday RAM NAVAMI 4 04.04.2023 Tuesday MAHAVIR JAYANTI * 01.04.2023 Saturday ANNUAL CLOSING OF BANKS’ ACCOUNT 5 07.04.2023 Friday…

RBI announces the migration of CPFIR (FRAUD) Reporting to DAKSH

Effective from January 01, 2023, the Banks and non-bank PPI entities shall commence reporting payment frauds in DAKSH. According to RBI circular, this reporting was earlier facilitated through Electronic Data Submission Portal (EDSP) and is being migrated to DAKSH through which scheduled commercial banks and non-bank prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers report payment frauds, to…