Government think-tank Niti Aayog on Wednesday proposed setting up of full-stack ‘digital banks‘, which would principally rely on the internet and other proximate channels to offer their services and not physical branches, to mitigate the financial deepening challenges being faced in the country. The Aayog, in a discussion paper titled ‘Digital Banks: A Proposal for … Read more
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cautioned members of the public not to deal with co-operative societies undertaking banking business by adding ‘bank’ to their names. “The Banking Regulation Act, 1949 was amended by the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2020, which came into force on September 29, 2020. Accordingly, co-operative societies cannot use the … Read more
ICICI bank calls it – interoperable app What is it? In general you can not use any bank’s app if you are not it’s customer. Every bank asks the user to login before using. ICICI decided to do away with it last year, did a soft launch in December 2020 and a full launch in … Read more
In an Economic Times report of November 5, there were some corporate governance issues at Indusind’s microfinance subsidiary Bharat Financial Inclusion (BFI). Indusind had acquired BFI (erswhile SKS Microfinance) in March 2019. As per the subject report – Between October 17 and 24, several senior employees of BFI had written to the Reserve Bank of … Read more
Amex and Goldman Sachs are linking up on a new business-payments feature. The firms are linking their data and offering combined payments processing for large corporations. It’s an effort to combine fragmented payments and accounts together in one place. American Express and Goldman Sachs are teaming up in the hopes of simplifying how the world’s … Read more
Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) has agreed to acquire 9.98% in KFin Technologies Private Limited (KFin) for a cash consideration of Rs 310 crore. Funds will be infused directly into the company via fresh share issue. Key points to note – KFin was earlier known as Karvy Fintech. However, in December 2019 it renamed itself to … Read more