Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its monetary policy presented on January 29, 2013 cut repo rate and cash reserve ratio by 25 basis points each. Repo rate, the rate at which banks borrow from the central bank, has been slashed to 7.75%; and the cash reserve ratio, the portion of bank deposits the banks […]
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Today is the last day of 2012 and thanks to SEBI, RBI, and Finance Ministry among others which made some significant changes in your personal finance and investment. I have listed 12 of them. 1. One Scheme One Plan for Mutual Funds: Mutual Funds till now had multiple version of the same scheme – one
With start of new financial year 2012-13, a lot would change from today in personal finance space. Here is the list. Good News: Increased Interest on Small Savings Scheme like PPF, NSC, etc: The government has increased interest rates on post office deposits like PPF, NSC, Fixed Deposit, Recurring Deposit, and Senior citizen Scheme in
With the recent notification of RBI (Reserve Bank of India) about limiting Non Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) to provide Gold Loan up to 60% of value of Gold Jewellary, it seems now rules of the game would be rewritten. Now, banks might turn out to be better option for Gold Loan borrowers due to following reasons: NBFCs
Gold loan has become popular form of borrowing in recent years. This is proved by the fact that Banks and non-banks are currently dishing it out at the rate of 1,20,000 new loans a day! At last count, the business was reckoned to be worth Rs 80,000 crore and growing at the rate of over
