Finance CA Flashcards
Who releases the list of NBFC-UL? How many companies does it have?
Upper Layer (3rd lyr - total 4 layers - based on asset size)
RBI
15 companies
UL: subjected to higher regulations for at least 5 yrs. Top layer empty
How many times have the WPI been revised before?
7 revisions
current will make it 8
How many members are part of the working group formed to revise the WPI base yr? Who is its chair?
18 member
Ramesh Chand
How many total articles are included in WPI? which category has the most?
697
Manufacturing highest - 564
Acc to RBI, CICs must alert customers when their ____ is accessed & lenders must update credit bureau records every ____ days
Credit Information Company
Credit Information Report
every 15 days
Acc to RBI, if a complaint is not resolved within 30 days from the date filed with a CIC, customers are entitled to a compensation of Rs. ____/____
Credit Information Company
Rs. 100 / day
Under which sections of the Banking Regulation Act 1949, are cooperative banks required to prepare their financial statements?
Section 29 and 56
Acc to RBI revised guidelines for microfinance activities, distinction between rual & urban areas was ____, while uniform household microfinance loan limit of Rs. ___ was set
eliminated
Rs. 3 L
Acc to RBI revised guidelines for microfinance activities, To qualify as NBFC-MFI, institutions must allocate at least ___% of their assets microfinance activities
75%
Asset allocation threshold raised to 25%
Registration process for FPIs investing only in ____ to get easier. They need to fulfill KYC requirement by ___ and provide PAN details mandated by ____
G-Secs
KYC by RBI
PAN by CBDC
Central Board of Direct Taxes
SEBI proposes ____ for issuance of shares during a stock split
Compulsory Demat
Which segment of financial market is impacted by VRR auctions by RBI?
Variable Repo Rate
Bond Market
Daily VRR auction to be held by RBI is aimed at?
Easing current liquidity tightness in banking system
notified amt of Rs. 50,000 crore
Acc to 1st advance estimates by NSO, India’s real & nomical GDP growth rates for FY 2024-25 are at?
Real: 6.4%
Nominal: 9.7%
Real GDP is nominal GDP adjusted for inflation
Payment Systems covered by Payment System Act?
- Credit/Debit Cards
- NEFT/RTGS
- ECS Debit/Credit
- IMPS
- UPI
When can a Navratna company turn into maharatna
Miniratna -> Mini 1 -> Nav -> Maha
- Annual Turnover: Rs. 25,000 cr
- Annual Net-worth: Rs. 15,000 cr
- Annual Net-profit: Rs. 5000 cr
last 3 yrs
Under what conditions is rural agricultural land exempt from capital gains tax in India?
Outside municipality limits & meets population criteria
10,000 - 1,00,000 pop, land should be at least 2 km away from municipali
Inflation in 2025 has eased to?
4.31%
___% of the population saw no change in income, highest in 11 yrs
55%
Acc to RBI’s Consumer Confidence Report
Acc to TRAIs Ammended Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulation 2018, telcos are req to accept complaints against up to ____ and act with ____
up to a week
Act with 5 days
-P promotional, -S service, -T transactional, -G government
A method of converting public assets into sources of revenue-generation without a change in ownership. To extract value from underutilised public infrastructure.
Asset Monetisation
Public admin, govt equity
Income Tax Bill 2025 replaces the term ‘Assessment Year’ with?
Tax Year
Who released the inaugural ‘Fiscal Health Index 2025’?
NITI Aayog
Throws light on Fiscal health of states
16th FC chairman?
Arvind Panagariya
He released Fiscal Health Report by NITI Aayog
Indices of NITI Aayog’s Fiscal Health Index Report?
- Quality of Expenditure
- Revenue Mobilisation
- Fiscal Prudence
- Debt Index
- Debt Sustainability
Top Performers in NITI Aayog’s Fiscal Health Index 2025?
Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Jharkhand
Who releases ‘Navigating Global Financial System Fragmentation’ Report?
WEF
Almost 7.5 bn loss to GDP due to fragmentation predicted
RBI Ombudsman scheme sees ___% inc in bank customer complaints
32.8%
abt 9.34L mostly in loans, mobile banking, deposits, credit cards
RBIs Integrated ombusman scheme was launched in?
2021
Integrating 3 ombudsman scheme
RBI’s Integrated Ombudsman Scheme aims to resolve complaints within?
30 days of receiving
no fee
India is a part of Project Nexus, who else part of it?
Facilitates multilateral linkages for faster payments
Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines
Bank of International Settlements has been conceptualised by?
Project Nexus
Thai, Malay, Philippines, Singapore, India
Govt has notified UPS as an option under? effective from?
Unified Pension Scheme
NPS
April 2025
for centrl govt employees
Employee and Govt contribution for implementing UPS?
Employee: 10%
Govt: 18.5%
increased from 14% to 18.5%
Under UPS, Govt employees with atleast ___ yrs of service will receive a guaranteed pension of 50% of their avg basic pay from the last 12 months before retirement
25 yrs
less than 25 but more than 10? assured 10000 pm. 60% on death to fam
CPI-combined is tracked by RBI released by NSO, CPI-IW is released by?
Labour Bureau -
Min of Labour & Employment
Tracked for setting dearness allowance in UPS, employees
____ has launched ‘enhanced Certificate of Origin (eCoO) 2.0 for exporters?
For e-generated certificate of origin - req for trade agree countries
Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT)
To be submitted at landing port of the importing country
A single access point for all exporters, fot FTA/PTAs countries? The platform has been designed & developed by?
eCoO 2.0
DGFT & RMTR Div - MoCI
Regional & Multilateral Trade Division
SEBIs Regulation on MIIs mandate the appointment of an independent external agency for evaluations every ____ yrs starting from 2024-25
Market Infrastructure Institution.
every 3 yrs
Committee with experience in securities, with eval report out 1ce in 3yr
Investment & External Commercial Borrowings landscape report is by?
SBI
trends in investment announcements, private sector contribution, etc
Acc to SBI, total investments stood at Rs. 32L crore which is ___% higher than last yr
39%
of which private accounted for 70% for it
Acc to SBI, Net financial savings of househols improved to?
5.3% of GDP
India & Qatar aim to doubel bilateral trade to $ ___ bn by ____
5yrs - to enhance cooperation
$30 bn by 2030
$10 bn investment by Qatar
Qatar is the largest supplier of ___& ___ to India about 10MMT & 5 MMT resp
LNG & LPG
Which country 1st introduced a CBDC?
Central Bank Digital Currency
Finland
Avant smart card
CBDC operated on ___ tech
Blockchain technology
Considered a legal tender, only digital
Timeline for marking a trading account as inactive, acc to NSE?
24 months
12 months
Acc to RBI, by which date must banks & ATM operators implement the cassette swap mechanism for ATMs?
March 31, 2025
National Insurance Awareness Day is on?
28th June
Acc to RBI, what was the min outstanding amt of NPAs for scrutiny?
Rs. 25 Lakh
Acc to RBI, Min net worth required for an entity to establish an SRO?
Rs. 10 crore
SRO registered under Sec 8 of COmpanies Act 2013
GoI holds ___% of LIC
96.5%
Who reported that startups are returning to India after the abolition of Angel Tax?
DPIIT, MoCI
Which bank has unveiled its AI powered holographic digital avatar of Amitabh Bachchan
IDFC First Bank
SEBI has expanded the scope of opt T+0 settlement cycle for top ____ stocks
in the equity cash market
Top 500
Acc to Stock Exchanges & Clearing Contracts Regulation 2018
____ bank has signed an MoU with Commonwealth Bank of Australia to enhance trade & business collab btw the 2 countries
ICICI Bank
MoF has notified that it has withdrawn Windfall tax which includes?
Crude oil, petrol, diesel, Aviation Turbine Fuel
Acc to SBIs new ERD report, India’s GDP growth for FY25 is?
6.3%
Lower than RBI’s projection of 6.6%
____ + Amazon Finance to create innovative credit solutions for customers & merchants
L&T Finance
Acc to DPIIT, Gross FDI inflow into India since Apr 2000?
$1 tn
RBI cancelled whose CoR due to irregular lending practices & breach of RBI guidelines on digital lending in Dec
Zavron Finance Pvt Ltd
Maha
Which bank has Banccasurance with Bharti AXA?
AU Small Finance Bank
Which company has launched ‘Sheild’ plan for UPI fraud protection
BharatPe
____, a MF Company introduced India’s 1st ETF on capital markets & insurance
Exchange Traded Fund
Edelweiss Mutual Fund
A New Fund Offer (NFO) with min subscription of Rs. 5,000
SEBI’s new chairman?
Tuhin Kanta Pandey
SEBI mandated MF companis to reduce the processing time for cancelling SIPs to ___ working days
2 working days
from 10 days, thru websites, RTAs, exchanges
NPCI announced an extention for impementing the 30% market share cap for UPI providers to?
Dec 2026
extended by 2 yrs
FOREX includes?
- RTP
- SDR
- Gold
- Foreign Currency - highest wt
Reserve Tranche Position & SDR by IMF
Top 5 country with the largest FOREX reserves?
China > Japan > Switzerland > India > Russia
India - 4th position
A surplus in current account is offset by a ____ in the capital account
deficit
Current + capital = 0
GDP + NFIA = ?
Net Factor Income Abroad
GNP
Value of Goods & Services produced by citizens of a country + abroad
In the long run phillips curve is?
Vertical
No relation btw Inflation & unemployment
RBI is the lender of the Last Resort, this implies?
RBI advances credit against eligible securities to financial institutions
RBI mandates to close 3 types of bank accounts:
Dormant Accounts, Inactive Accounts & Zero Balance Accounts
Dormant Accounts are those that have not seen any transaction activity for?
More than 1 yr
Inactive accounts are those that have been inactive for?
12 months or more
needs to be reactivated
Under RBIs Guidelines for FDs with NBFCs and HFCs, depositors can withdraw the entire amt within ___ months without interest, for small deposits upto Rs. _____
3 months
Rs. 10,000
Under RBIs Guidelines for FDs with NBFCs and HFCs, for large deposits, depositors can withdraw upto ___% of the principle amt or Rs. ___, whichever is lower, within 3 months.
50%
Rs. 5 Lakh
____, India’s largest supply chain finance platform, received approval from the RBI to operate as a TReDS platform
KredX
Acc to PHDCCI’s latest report ‘Economic Outlook 2025’, India is set to become the 4th largest economy by ____ suparssing Japan, and will become a $7 trillion economy by ____
2026
2030
10 trillion by 2034
RBI assigned ____ to head the Monetary Policy dept as a part of portfolio reshuffling
M Rajeshwar Rao
1st-ever cybersecurity hackathon 2024-25 with the theme ‘code against malware’ is by?
PNB
As per DPIIT, startup funding has inc significantly from $8 bn to ____
$115 bn
IRDAI has decided to clamp down on insurance premium hikes for senior citizens to ___% from prevailing 15-100%
Not more than 10%
For non-life and health
Max penalty that can be imposed by RBI under the revised Payment & Settlement Systems Act for contraventions & compouding offences?
Rs. 10 Lakh
or twice the amt involved - whichever is higher
Penalty for continuing violations under new Payment & Settlement Systems Act?
Rs. 25,000/day
Till rectified
Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process is under which code of RBI?
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016
Under which section can a financial creditor initiate CIRP against a corporate debtor?
Section 7
To maximize value of assets of the corporate debtor & ensure resolution
Min CRAR that Tier-2 to 4 UCBs must maintain?
12%
Acc to RBI guidelines, Tier 1 UCBs must have a min net worth of Rs. ____ & others of Rs. ____
Tier 1 UCBs: Rs. 2 crore
All other UCBs: Rs. 5 crore
UCBs which do not meet the min net worth req shall achieve 50% by March ____ & the rest by March ____
50% by 2026
rest by 2028
Min investment req for bonds? RBI FRSB lock-in period?
Floating Rate Savings Bond
Rs. 500
7 yrs
No upper limit
For conversion of NBFC -> banks:
Over ___% of assets must be financial.
Over ___% of gross income must come from financial assets.
NBFCs should ass at least ___% of net profit to reserve funds, every yr.
Maintain a min CAR of ___%
50%, 50%, 20%
CAR: 10%
Capital Adequacy Ratio - Net NPA not more than 5%
Acc to RBI, a lender’s aggregate exposure across all P2P platforms is capped at Rs. ___
Rs. 50 Lakh
align with their net worth
Min monthly investment, proposed by SEBI, for small-ticket SIPs?
For financial inclusion
Rs. 250
What is the new limit for collateral-free education loans under SBIs Global Ed-Vantage scheme?
Rs. 50 lakh
Acc to MoF, GNPA ratio of PSBs dec 14.5% in 2018 to ____ in 2024?
3.12%
decadal low
___ has launched a UPI payment sol tailored specifically for senior citizens
GenWise
UNICEF and ___ bank collaborate to strengthen climate risk management and community resilience
IndusInd Bank
___ has partnered with Yes Bank and NPCI to launch Co-branded credit card and UPI app
Rio money