Banks and NBFCs are not permitted to levy foreclosure charges/ pre-payment penalties connected immoderate floating complaint word indebtedness sanctioned to idiosyncratic borrowers with oregon without co-obligants for purposes different than business.
In bid to promote wider adoption of UPI payments, the Reserve Bank of India has decided to summation the UPI Lite wallet bounds to Rs 5,000 and per-transaction bounds to Rs 1,000 from Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 respectively. UPI Lite functions without utilizing a remitter bank’s halfway banking systems successful real-time, portion providing capable hazard mitigation.
Further, the RBI has besides decided to heighten the per-transaction bounds to Rs 10,000 successful the lawsuit of UPI123 Pay from Rs 5,000. This installation is present disposable successful 12 languages.
Beneficiary relationship sanction look-up facility
The RBI has projected to present a ‘beneficiary relationship sanction look-up facility’ to alteration remitters successful RTGS and NEFT to verify the sanction of the beneficiary relationship holder earlier initiating funds transfer. Remitters tin input the relationship fig and the subdivision IFSC codification of the beneficiary, pursuing which the sanction of the beneficiary volition beryllium displayed. This installation volition summation lawsuit assurance arsenic it would trim the anticipation of incorrect credits and frauds.
Foreclosure charges connected micro units’ loans
With a presumption to safeguard customers’ involvement done amended transparency and lawsuit centricity by lenders, the RBI decided not to licence levy of foreclosure charges/ pre-payment penalties connected loans to micro and tiny enterprises (MSEs) extended by the regulated entities of the Reserve Bank.
Banks and NBFCs are not permitted to levy foreclosure charges/ pre-payment penalties connected immoderate floating complaint word indebtedness sanctioned to idiosyncratic borrowers with oregon without co-obligants for purposes different than business.
Climate hazard repository
The Reserve Bank has projected to make a information repository namely, the Reserve Bank – Climate Risk Information System (RB-CRIS) comprising of 2 parts. The archetypal portion volition beryllium a web-based directory, listing assorted information sources (meteorological, geospatial etc) which volition beryllium publically accessible successful the RBI website. The 2nd portion volition beryllium a information portal comprising of datasets (processed information successful standardised formats). The entree to this information portal volition beryllium made disposable lone to the regulated entities successful a phased manner.