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Do Banks Violate RBI Rules by Redeeming Fixed Deposits on Holidays?

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 19 August 2025 204 Views

Are banks bypassing RBI guidelines by redeeming FDs on holidays without holiday interest? Understand the issue, legal position and depositor rights.



New Bank Nomination Norms Will Confuse and Complicate More Than They Ease

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 09 June 2025 235 Views

The Banking Laws (Amendment) Act, 2025 promises more options for depositors with new nomination rules.



Proposed Amendments to Bank Deposit Nominations - An urgent need for a healthy debate

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 07 October 2024 528 Views

The Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill 2024 proposes significant changes to bank deposit nominations, introducing successive and simultaneous nominations.



Why RBI withdrew the most popular money market product collateralized borrowing and lending (CBLO)

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 15 December 2023 1999 Views

Why are major financial market regulators ignoring statute/s, while pushing new products/policies, and exotic ideas, overlooking serious systemic, legal risks to the market segment/s they regulate?



Why banks stopped issuing standalone ATM cards?

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 11 December 2023 2590 Views

Banks will not easily give up this debit card stream of revenue generation unless the RBI comes with an iron hand. Such ATM cards will be useful mainly to the senior citizen class, risk-averse and/or less technology savvy class of the bank customers.



A Comprehensive Guide to the Supreme Court's Rulings on Safe Deposit Lockers in India

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 06 December 2023 3345 Views

The Supreme Court of India's directions on hiring safe deposit lockers- - new locker agreement/s-confusion on stamping- many aspects the locker customers of banks need to know.



Card network portability ambiguity in RBI's circular

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 04 December 2023 737 Views

RBI's directions on Card's network portability - ambiguity. What needs to be done to ensure card users get the desired benefits?



Can Banks freeze inoperative SB and CD Accounts, return cheques issued and stop access to ATM service?

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 30 August 2022 3977 Views

In this article, I have attempted to highlight a few related aspects like recklessness at Integrated Ombudsman's office.



Can banks freeze a customer's account for non-compliance with Re-KYC (KYC review)?

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 29 August 2022 9799 Views

Neither RBI on its own can direct, a partial or total freeze of Re-KYC due (non-compliant) bank account nor it can delegate such authority to any bank/branch to impose such a freeze. RBI has formally confirmed that the directions it had given in Sept 2014 were applicable before the amendment on 20th April 2018.



PMC bank's scheme of amalgamation: Was it not a travesty of justice?

Posted by Shivaprasad Laxman Chhatre 11 February 2022 1991 Views

In this write-up, I have used the terminology retail, institutional deposit as has been used in the Scheme of amalgamation of PMC Bank with Unity Small Finance Bank (USFB) as published in the gazette of India notwithstanding it is a ridiculous and misleading terminology not consistent with provisions of DICGC or any existing law.




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