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Magazine Has Become One Among the Best Reference Material on Current Affairs in the State for Which Five Thousand Copies Are Exhausted Within Days of Printing MONTHLY ISSUE - APRIL - 2018 CurrVanik’s ent Affairs Banking | Railway | Insurance | SSC | UPSC | OPSC | PSU Chandrayaan-2 By April 2018 PNB Scam PREPARATION STRATEGY Vanik’s Question Hub PRACTICE SET FOR et IAS for OCS MAIN Vanik’s Practice S 2 set of SBI-Clerk (Prelim) Vanik’s Extra Dose SBI-Clerk (Main) arden Vanik’s Knowledge G SSC-CHSL (Tier-I) Supply Inspector (Prelim) VA N I K S A H E E D N A G A R C E N T R E VA N I K C U T TA C K C E N T R E VANIK ACHARYA VIHAR CENTRE Centralized A/C Counseling Central A/C Classroom Fully Wi-Fi Enabled Lab Interview Grooming Session Food Court WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN VANIK INSTITUTE FOR “BANKING, RAILWAY AND SSC” 1. BEST FACULTY OF INDIA FOR CLASSES COMPARE TO ALL 18. Weekly Current Affairs handout separately. OTHER INSTITUTE. 19. Weekly newspaper reading classes. 2. 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Wishing you all the Best Subrat Kumar Chhatoi CONTENT Page Page 3 Events of the Month Economy & Banking Page International Page National Page 22 News 25 News 28 Page Page Page Bilateral State News Award and 30 31 33 Honour Page Person in Page Page Places in Sports 35 News 37 News 38 Page Science & Page Environment Page Defence 42 Technology 45 & Ecology 46 Page Page Page 48 Committee 48 Summit 49 Book & Author Page Page Date & Page 50 Miscellaneous 51 Observation 52 One Liner VANIK QUESTION HUB Page 200 MCQ on Page 100 MCQ on Page 40 MCQ on Page 20 Special MCQ 54 Current Affairs 63SSC/Railway 67 Computer 69 on Banking PRACTICE SET VANIK EXTRA DOSE Page Page 121 Who’s Who 127 Abbreviation Page 130Preparation Strategy for OCS Main MAGAZINE FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 2018 1. PNB SCAM : EXPOSURE OF ILLS IN INDIAN BANKING SYSTEM The nuts and bolts of a fraud : on PNB scam Diamond merchant Nirav Modi has been accused of siphoning off funds worth about Rs. 12,636 crore from the public sector bank, PNB. A key element of the scam is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a messaging network that connects banks and other financial institutions across the world. Among other things, a bank that is part of SWIFT can use the system to convey credit instruments called Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) to other banks located overseas. An LoU is simply a request made to another bank in the SWIFT network to loan money to a client. The bank that issues the LoU essentially guarantees the bank that receives the LoU request that it stands by the creditworthiness of the borrower. That is, in case of a default, the bank that issued the LoU stands liable to compensate the bank that made the loan to the borrower. PNB alleges that employees at one of its branches in Mumbai issued fraudulent LoUs that were not authorised by its management. This allegedly allowed Mr. Modi’s companies to obtain loans from the overseas branches of various Indian banks. Why did it happen? PNB’s internal information systems were not seamlessly linked to SWIFT. It is claimed that the huge fund transfers made via SWIFT to Mr. Modi’s companies by a few PNB employees went undetected for many years. Many critics, however, contend that the fraud is not simply a matter of the failure of PNB’s internal control system. Instead, they blame flaws in the ownership of public sector banks. In fact, the PNB scam came to light only after a whistle-blower exposed it. Is this the first time? No. SWIFT has been gamed by miscreants on a number of occasions. In 2016, there was a cyber-heist of $81 million from Bangladesh’s central bank. Russia’s central bank recently reported that $6 million was stolen from a Russian bank last year by exploiting the SWIFT system. Even the Reserve Bank of India stated this week that it had privately warned Indian banks about the prospect of misuse of SWIFT at least three times since August 2016. PNB-Nirav Modi fraud: How future banking scams may be prevented Following Bangladesh Bank heist in 2016 of USD 81 million, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had issued an advisory to all the banks asking them to ensure that their computer systems running core banking solutions (CBS) were properly integrated, wherever required, with SWIFT (Society for 3 Plot-1441, Opp.
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