The Reserve Bank on Monday mentioned it has imposed penalties on three state-owned banks, together with SBI and Indian Bank, for violation of assorted regulatory norms. A penalty of Rs 1.3 crore has been imposed on the State Bank of India for non-compliance with sure instructions issued by the RBI on ‘Loans and Advances – Statutory and Other Restrictions’ and ‘Guidelines on Management of Intra-Group Transactions and Exposures’, it mentioned in a press release.
In one other launch, the RBI mentioned a penalty of Rs 1.62 crore has been imposed on Indian Bank for contravention of sure instructions on ‘Loans and Advances – Statutory and Other Restrictions’, KYC, and ‘Reserve Bank of India (Interest Rate on Deposits) Directions, 2016’. A financial penalty of Rs 1 crore on Punjab & Sind Bank was slapped for non-compliance with sure provisions of the depositor training and consciousness fund scheme.
The RBI has additionally imposed a penalty of Rs 8.80 lakh on Fedbank Financial Services Limited for non-compliance with sure provisions of the instructions on monitoring fraud in NBFCs. The RBI, nonetheless, added that the penalties on the banks and the NBFC are primarily based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance and are usually not meant to pronounce upon the validity of any transaction or settlement entered into by them with their clients.
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