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RRB PO / CLERK 2019 CAPSULE for ALL COMPETITIVE EXAMS RRB PO / CLERK 2019 CAPSULE for ALL COMPETITIVE EXAMS Issue: 04 | Page : 56 | Topic : RRB CAPSULE RRB PO/CLERK 2019 CAPSULE (APRIL-AUGUST 2019) INDEX TOPIC RRB PO/CLERK 2019 CAPSULE Page No BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS 2 LIST OF INDEXES BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS 8 GDP FORECAST OF INDIA BY VARIOUS ORGANISATION 8 RANKINGS / REPORTS BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS 8 LIST OF VARIOUS COMMITTEE & ITS HEAD 11 LOAN SANCTIONED BY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BANKS TO INDIA 11 PENALITY IMPOSED BY RBI TO VARIOUS BANKS IN INDIA 12 LIST OF ACQUISTION & MERGER TOOK PLACE FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 2019 13 APPS/SCHEMES/FACILITY LAUNCHED BY VARIOUS BANKS/ORGANISATIONS/COMPANY 13 NATIONAL NEWS 15 STATE NEWS 20 IIT’S IN NEWS 24 NATIONAL SUMMITS 24 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 26 INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS 31 LIST OF AGREEMENTS/MOU’S SIGNED BY INDIA WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES 33 APPOINTMENTS / RESIGNATION /RETIREMENT 34 AWARDS & HONOURS 37 BOOKS & AUTHORS 42 SPORTS NEWS 42 OBITUARY 51 ________________________________________________________ t.me/examstocks WWW.EXAMSTOCKS.COM www.examstocks.com Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RAILWAY | STATE EXAMS 2 | RRB PO/CLERK CAPSULE - 2019| BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS ➢ RBI has altered the LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) norms to offer an additional 2% window to lenders. The central bank has brought in RBI IN NEWS this alteration in order to improve the cash position of banks by ➢ Second Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2019-20 harmonising liquidity requirements and giving away extra money to Resolution of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Reserve Bank of India. lenders. For the third time in a row, the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary ➢ The Reserve Bank set the average base rate to be charged from Policy Committee (MPC) cut interest rates by 25 basis points, as was borrowers by Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and Micro- widely expected. On the basis of an assessment of the current and Finance Institutions (MFIs) at 9.21% for the first quarter of the next evolving macroeconomic situation, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) fiscal (From April 2019) at its meeting decided to ➢ The Reserve Bank of India will inject long-term liquidity worth 5 Policy Repo Rate 5.40% billion US Dollars into the banking system through a dollar-rupee buy-sell Reverse Repo Rate 5.15 % swap for tenure of three years. Marginal Standing Facility Rate 5.65% ➢ The amalgamation of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank into the Bank of Baroda (BoB) has come into effect on April 1st, 2019 and all Bank Rate 5.65% branches of the former two will function as branches of BoB. The merged CRR 4 % entity would also receive Rs.5,042 crore fund infusion from the SLR 18.75% government. Post the merger, Bank of Baroda has become the third ➢ Reserve Bank of India has asked banks not to count failed largest bank in the country after State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC transactions at ATMs due to technical reasons as part of “free ATM Bank. transactions” permitted every month. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with guidelines for banks ➢ The Reserve Bank has liberalized the end-use stipulations for to set up new currency chests, which include a minimum area of 1,500 the External Commercial Borrowings both for corporates as well as square feet for the strong room. liquidity starved non-banking lenders. ➢ Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has partnered with M1Xchange ➢ Reserve Bank of India received a huge response for introducing Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platform for MSME bill a $5-billion swap facility for the banks to facilitate permanent liquidity discounting. support. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to buy Rs.25,000 crore worth of ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed a penalty of Rs 1.75 crore on bonds in two instalments from the secondary market in May. The first four public sector banks. The banks which includes PNB and UCO Bank such open market operations (OMO) for the fiscal year 2019-20, for non-compliance with KYC requirement and norms. Punjab National amounting to Rs 12,500 crore, will happen on 2nd May 2019. Bank, Allahabad Bank and UCO Bank fined Rs 50 lakh each and Rs ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon release new banknotes in 25 lakh is imposed on Corporation Bank. the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series of Rs.20. The base colour of the note is ➢ Centre has announced that the Reserve Bank of India will now be greenish yellow and bear the signature of Shaktikanta Das (RBI the regulator of housing finance Companies (HFCs). The HFC were Governor). The new denomination is 63 mm x 129 mm has the motif of regulated by the National Housing Bank. the Ellora Caves on the reverse. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a six-member working ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given 12 years to Life group to review the regulatory and supervisory framework for core Insurance Corp to reduce its stake in IDBI Bank. investment companies (CICs). The panel will be headed by Tapan ➢ The central bank has released draft 'Enabling Framework for Ray, Non-Executive Chairman of CBI. Regulatory Sandbox', proposed that fintech start-ups could set up ➢ The Reserve Bank has imposed a fine of about 26 lakh regulatory sandbox or live testing of innovative products. rupees on two online payment solutions providers for non-compliance ➢ Based on the recommendation of second Narasimham Committee, of regulatory guidelines. Mobikwik Systems Private Limited has been the Reserve Bank has divested its entire stake in National Housing slapped a fine of 15 lakh rupees while Hip Bar Pvt Ltd faced a fine of Bank (NHB) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural 10.85 lakh rupees. Development (NABARD). ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut repo rate by 35 basis ➢ In a move to tackle fund diversion, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) points to 5.40 per cent to give a fillip to the economy. Loans are set has proposed sterner rules on opening and running of current to get cheaper as Reserve Bank of India cut repo rate by 35 basis accounts of corporate borrowers. points to 5.40 per cent. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released draft guidelines ➢ The Reserve Bank of India announced that the National on liquidity risk management framework for non-banking financial Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) facility will be available round-the- companies (NBFCs) and core investment companies (CICs) with an aim to clock for the customers that 24×7 basis from December 2019. help them deal with severe liquidity problems and prevent re- Currently, NEFT payment system operated by the Reserve Bank as a retail occurrence of IL&FS type of debt crisis. payment system is available for customers from 8 AM to 7 PM on all ➢ Reserve Bank of India announced that it will allow large modern working days of the week except 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. currency chests to increase the service charges on cash deposited ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to transfer 1.76 by non-chest bank branches from the existing rate of Rs. 5 per packet lakh crore rupees as dividend and surplus reserve to the government. of 100 pieces to a higher rate subject to a maximum of Rs. 8 per ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board has finalized Utkarsh 2022, a packet. medium term strategy, to improve regulation and supervision, among ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the eligibility cap other functions of the central bank. on home loans extended by regional rural banks and small finance banks ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has penalised State Bank of to Rs. 35 lakh in metropolitan areas and Rs. 25 lakh in other centres, India and Union Bank of India for violating certain regulatory guidelines. provided the overall cost of the dwelling unit in the metropolitan centres RBI fined Rs.7 crores for SBI and Rs.10 lakhs on Union Bank for non- and other centres does not exceed Rs. 45 lakh and Rs. 30 lakh. compliance with the directions on the cyber security framework. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India said that it has imposed penalties on ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with the Five Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) issuers, for violation of government of India has set the limits for Ways and Means Advances regulatory norms. Namely, Western Union Financial Services Inc, (WMA) for the first half of the financial year 2019-20 (April 2019 to MoneyGram Payment Systems Inc, Vodafone m-pesa, PhonePe and Y-Cash September 2019) at Rs.75000 crore. Software Solutions. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ t.me/examstocks www.examstocks.com www.examstocks.com Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RAILWAY | STATE EXAMS 3 | RRB PO/CLERK CAPSULE - 2019| ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that the time-window balance above 1 lakh and short-term loans to Reserve Bank of India’s for using the Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) for customer (RBI) repo rate, effective 1 May 2019. transactions will be extended from 4:30 pm to 6 pm on all working days. ➢ Paisalo Digital signed the first co-origination loan agreement It will be effective from June 1, 2019. with State Bank of India, the first agreement of its kind in the ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty country that State Bank of India has signed. of Rs. 1 crore on Nainital Bank for its failure to fully automate the ➢ State Bank of India (SBI) has re-priced home loans up to Rs 30 Non-Performing Asset (NPA) identification process, despite specific lakh by 10 basis points.
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