RBI orders immediate ban on IIFL Finance from sanctioning, disbursing gold loans

The Reserve Bank of India has imposed an immediate ban on IIFL Finance from approving or disbursing gold loans due to significant supervisory concerns identified in its gold loan portfolio. RBI bars IIFL Finance from sanctioning and disbursing gold loans. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Despite this restriction, IIFL Finance is permitted to manage its existing …

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RBI to streamline net banking by making merchant payments interoperable

MUMBAI :Customers will soon be able to pay businesses through net banking irrespective of whether their banks and the merchants’ payment aggregator are integrated, with the central bank ironing out one more wrinkle in India’s rapidly evolving digital payments ecosystem. “We have given approval for implementing such an interoperable system to NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd. …

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Paytm crisis: NHAI likely to extend the deadline for Fastag KYC completion

Amid a regulatory crisis for the Paytm Payments Bank, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is mulling over the extension of the deadline for completing Fastag KYC by March-end. Earlier, the nodal agency for highways set the February 29 deadline and asked the Fastag users to shift to the “One vehicle-one Fastag” system. “In …

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December quarter, when GDP beat every forecast

The Q3 growth figure is almost twice as fast as the 4.3% recorded in Q3 of FY23. A Mint poll of 17 economists had thrown up a median of 6.6%. Other predictions, too, were similar. The Q3 figure reported by the statistics ministry is also higher than the 7.6% reported in Q2; this number was …

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