Banking Awareness of 29, 30 and 31 July 2023

By Priyanka Chaudhary | Last Modified: 31 Jul 2023 22:18 PM IST
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Topic: Reports and Indices

1. RBI’s Digital Payments Index (DPI) increases from 377.46 in September 2022 to 395.57 in March 2023.

  • RBI-DPI stood at 349.30 in March 2022. RBI-DPI for September 2022 was announced on January 31, 2023.
  • RBI has been publishing RBI-DPI since January 1, 2021 with March 2018 as base.
  • RBI-DPI captures the extent of digitization of payments across the country.
  • RBI-DPI consists of five parameters. Of these parameters, payment enablers account for 25% of DPI.
  • Payment infrastructure – demand-side factors account for 10%, payment infrastructure – supply-side factors account for 15%.
  • Payment performance accounts for 45%, whereas consumer centricity holds 5% weightage.
  • According to the Economic Survey 2022-23, fintech adoption rate in India is highest at 87%. Global average of fintech adoption rate is 64%.
  • India has achieved 3rd place in digital payments, after US and China.

Period

RBI - DPI Index

March 2018 (Base)

100

March 2019

153.47

September 2019

173.49

March 2020

207.84

September 2020

217.74

March 2021

270.59

September 2021 (crossed 300 mark for 1st time)

304.06

March 2022

349.30

September 2022

377.46

March 2023

395.57

Topic: Banking System

2. Fino Payments Bank’s board has approved its transition to a Small Finance Bank.

  • However, the transition is subject to necessary approvals.
  • The Payments Bank has also got a letter from its holding company Fino PayTech regarding a group corporate restructuring proposal.
  • After this, the board has formed a committee to explore the possibility of group corporate restructuring.
  • Fino Payments Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fino Paytech Limited (FPL). It was launched in 2017.
  • The difference between the payments banks and small finance banks is that payment banks are allowed to accept demand deposits only and hold up to Rs. 2 lakh per person, on the other hand, small finance banks are allowed to accept all types of deposits.
  • According to RBI, there are six payment banks and 12 small finance banks as of now.

Topic: Corporates/Companies

3. Razorpay has launched the MoneySaver Export Account.

  • It is an account for Indian exporters. With this, Indian exporters can now open a smart account in any country of their choice.
  • They can receive payments locally via bank transfers on the Razorpay platform.
  • With this initiative, exporters are allowed to get international bank transfers from 160 countries.
  • According to Razorpay, this will be India’s first smart account to offer 50% savings on international bank transfers for exporters.
  • The account comes with a single-click electronic Foreign Inward Remittance Statement (FIRS).
  • This is accessible directly from the Razorpay dashboard.
  • Razorpay is payment and Banking Company. It is India's first full-stack financial solutions company.

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Topic: Reports and Indices

4. HDFC Bank has been ranked on the top in the list of 2023 CRISIL’s Greenwich market share Leaders in Large Corporate Banking.

  • It has surpassed State Bank of India (SBI). For middle market corporates, it again topped the list of 2023 Leaders among local banks.
  • HDFC Bank joined ICICI Bank as the year’s joint Greenwich Quality Leaders.
  • From 2021 to 2022, the share of Indian corporates who are working with one of the largest Indian private sector banks for overall corporate banking services increased from 33% to 38%.
  • The share of corporates working with minimum one large foreign bank increased from 18% to 21% from 2021 to 2022.
  • However, the share of Indian corporates working with minimum one of the country’s smaller private sector banks declined from 21% to 18% during 2021 to 2022.
  • Industry revenue pools across banking increased by 16% overall year on year.

Market Penetration of Large Indian Banks

Ranking

Bank Name

Market Penetration (%)

2023

1

HDFC Bank

69

2

SBI

60

3

Axis Bank

55

4

ICICI Bank

54

2022

1

SBI

67

2

ICICI Bank

59

3

HDFC Bank

58

Source: CRISIL-Greenwich Report

Topic: RBI

5. As on July 23, RBI has permitted 20 banks functioning in India to open 92 Special Rupee Vostro Accounts of partner banks from 22 countries.

  • This has been done in an attempt to promote bilateral trade in local currencies.
  • RBI and the Central Bank of UAE have signed a MoU to permit exporters and importers to pay in their respective domestic currencies.
  • The 22 countries include the countries given in the following table.

Bangladesh

Belarus

Botswana

Fiji

Germany

Guyana

Israel

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Malaysia

Maldives

Mauritius

Myanmar

New Zealand

Oman

Russia

Seychelles

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Tanzania

Uganda

United Kingdom

  • UCO Bank has opened four special rupee vostro accounts. It has got RBI approval for opening 8 more accounts.
  • India's exports increased by 36.6% during the last five years from USD 330.07 billion in 2018-19 to USD 450.95 billion in 2022-23.
  • India's imports increased by 38.8% during the last five years from USD 514.07 billion in 2018-19 to USD 714.04 billion in 2022-23.
  • A Vostro account is an account which a domestic bank holds on behalf of a foreign bank.
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Topic: Indian Economy/Financial Market

6. China’s steel exports to India during first quarter of FY24 were highest since FY20.

  • Significant increase in Chinese steel imports in Q1 of FY24 is believed to be caused by Indian traders’ buying of discounted Chinese offerings.
  • China is largest exporter of steel to India in value terms. It has overtaken Korea.
  • Hot rolled coils/sheets are the most imported steel item in volume terms during Q1 of FY24.
  • Cold rolled coils are the second most imported steel item in volume terms during Q1 of FY24. They were highest in value terms during Q1 of FY24.
  • Stainless steel and alloyed steel imports recorded a more or less upward trajectory during FY20 to FY24.
  • The import of non-alloyed steel reported a sharp upward trajectory during FY20 to FY24.
  • In volume terms, Korean supplies to India declined 4% to 0.5 mt in Q1FY24.
  • India’s steel imports in first quarter of FY24 increased 20% YoY to 1.4 mt.
  • India’s Q1 FY24 steel exports were lowest since FY21 at 2 million tonnes (mt).
  • This was due to weaker offers from key markets (Belgium, UAE, and Vietnam), a slowdown in buying across newly tapped markets like Turkey, and increased price competition with Chinese players.
  • Italy has emerged as the top buyer for Indian hot rolled coils in recent years.

Topic: Taxation

7. The number of assesses who will be mandatorily issuing e-invoice will increase by over 4 lakh from 1 August 2023.

  • This is because new threshold of aggregate annual turnover of ₹5 crore will be effective from 1 August 2023.
  • At present, the threshold is ₹10 crore. It was ₹500 crore at the time of implementation of mandatory generation of e-invoice from October 1, 2020.
  • Presently, approximately 6 lakh assesses are required to comply with this mandatory norm.
  • This number will increase to nearly 10 lakh after lowering the threshold.
  • Exempted categories like banks, Non-Banking Financial Companies or insurance companies are excluded from this number.
  • According to Rule 48(4) of CGST Rules, registered persons are required to prepare an invoice by uploading particulars of the invoice on Invoice Registration Portal (IRP).
  • ‘e-invoicing’ facilitates the exchange of the structured invoice data between a supplier and a buyer in an integrated electronic format.

Topic: Miscellaneous

8. As per the Finance Ministry, over 65% growth have been seen in 2022 from 2021 in the frauds reported for ATMs and others.

  • The amount involved in the frauds has nearly doubled.
  • According to National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), 2000 customers are, on an average, impacted every month due to cyber fraud.
  • Parliamentary committee’s report on ‘Cyber security and rising incidence of cyber/white collar crimes’ was recently tabled in Parliament by its Chairman Jayant Sinha.  
  • The committee recommended setting up of centralized regulatory authority focused on cyber security on the lines of Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
  • In 2021, the number of total frauds reported for ATMs and other frauds were about 10.80 lakh and the value was ₹1,119 crore.
  • For every 67,000 transactions, one fraud was committed in 2021.
  • In 2022, the number of total frauds reported for ATMs and other frauds were about 17.80 lakh and the value was ₹2,113 crore.
  • For every 64,000 transactions, one fraud was committed in 2022.
  • The committee also recommended the setting up of a Central Negative Registry for improving prevention and detection of fraud in the banking sector.
  • The committee recommended that RBI should devise an automatic compensation system.

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