Thu Jun 16 2022
Bank In News
📕1. SBI acquires 9.95% stake in India International Clearing Corporation (IICC)
📕2. Egypt added as fourth new member of BRICS New Development Bank
📕3. Rajeev Ahuja appointed as interim CEO of RBL Bank
📕4. Equitas Small Finance Bank Board approves re-appointment of Vasudevan PN as
MD & CEO
📕5. Sale of 19th tranche of electoral bonds opens on January 01, 2022
📕6. SEBI reconstitutes advisory committee on market data; Head- S Sahoo
📕7. RBI releases framework for Facilitating Small Value Digital Payments in Offline
Mode
📕8. SBI Card joins hand with Paytm for card tokenisation
📕9. IRDAI selects LIC, GIC Re and New India Assurance as Domestic Systemically
Important Insurers
📕10.Atul Kumar Goel takes charge as ‘officer on special duty’ in PNB
📕11.RBI Retains SBI, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank as Domestic Systemically Important Banks
(D-SIBs)
📕12.IndusInd Bank launches ‘green fixed deposits’ for retail and corporate customers
📕13.RBI Gives Scheduled Bank Status to Airtel Payments Bank
📕14.State Bank of India invests USD20 million in payment solutions provider Pine Labs
📕15.CryptoWire launches India’s first cryptocurrencies index IC15
📕16.NPCI Bharat BillPay launches Unified Presentment Management System to simplify
recurring bill payment
📕17.Former RBI Governor Urjit Patel Appointed as Vice President of Beijing-based AIIB
📕18.Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas appointed as next IMF’s Chief Economist to succeed Gita
Gopinath
📕19.RBI approves appointment of Ittira Davis as MD & CEO of Ujjivan SFB
📕20.HDFC Bank named Best Private Bank In India at the Global Private Banking Awards 2021
📕21.LazyPay partners with SBM Bank India to launch LazyCard
📕22.Paytm Payments Bank emerges biggest UPI beneficiary bank while SBI biggest
remitter in December 2021: NPCI Data
📕23.JIO Becomes First telecom company To Roll Out UPI AUTOPAY
📕24.MobiKwik launches ‘ClickPay’ in collaboration with NBBL for faster bill payments
📕25.SEBI Launches Mobile App ‘Saa₹thi’ For Investor Education
📕26.Tata Group choose SBI, Bank of Baroda and HDFC Bank as preferred bankers for Air
India
📕27.Paytm Money launches “India’s first” intelligent messenger named ‘Pops’.
📕28.Anantha Nageshwaran appointed as chief economic advisor of Government of
India
📕29.TerraPay partners with NPCI International to boost cashless transactions for Indian
customers
📕30.RBI approves appointment of Vinod Rai as independent Chairman of Unity Small
Finance Bank