The Approach Paper on "ATMs of Banks: Fair Pricing and Enhanced Access" was placed on the website on 24th December 2007 for public comments. The comments received from the public as also banks were mostly in favour of the approach suggested in the paper.A paper examining the public comments and proposed guidelines in the form of circular to be issued to banks has been placed today on the RBI website. Comments can be e-mailed or faxed to 022-22659566 or letter addresse

The Reserve Bank of India has today placed on its website the first Annual Report on the Payment and Settlement Systems in India. While there has been a number of initiatives for spreading the payment system network such as National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) System, Electronic Clearing Services (ECS), Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) System and National Financial Switch (NFS), the feedback received showed that the level of awareness and familiarity with paymen

A vision document on technology and the financial sector was published in the public domain of the Reserve Bank of India's website in July 2005. With rapid changes in technology and the achievement of the plans outlined, this vision document was taken up for improvement and has since been enhanced to cover the immediate short term period between 2008 and 2010. Reserve Bank of India has today placed on its website (www.rbi.org.in) the revised draft Financial Sector Tec

The Reserve Bank of India has today placed on its website the report of Working Group on preparing Guidelines for Access to Payment Systems for public comments. Comments may be addressed to the Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India, Department of Payment & Settlement Systems, Central Office, Fort, Mumbai 400001 or sent by <a href=# onclick=javascript:document.open('Bs_RbiEmailfeedback.aspx?name=rbi1','query_pop','width=460,height=330,top=90,left=520');re

The Advisory Group on Information Technology for Financial Inclusion, set up by Reserve Bank of India, for evolving common/comparable standards for enabling IT based solutions for banking services, had suggested that a separate working group be constituted to deliberate and suggest suitable standards for raw images (finger prints). The Working Group constituted in April 2007 under the convenorship of Dr. A.M. Pedgaonkar, Chief General Manager, Department of Informatio

The coverage of the Reserve Bank of India's Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) System has exceeded 15,000 bank branches in the country. The target was achieved two months ahead indicating the popularity of the funds transfer service. It may be recalled that the Reserve Bank of India introduced the RTGS System in March 2004 with four bank branches on a pilot basis, only for inter-bank transactions. Subsequently, customer-based transactions were also taken up. The RTGS S

The National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) started live operations from Today. The objective of the NEFT system is to establish an Electronic Funds Transfer system to facilitate an efficient, secure, economical, reliable and expeditious system of funds transfer between banks in the banking sector using Structured Financial Messaging Solution (SFMS) backbone. For the time being there will be a single settlement per day at 12.00 noon. To begin with 8 banks will be pa

The coverage of the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) System exceeded the target of ten thousand bank branches in the country. Thanks to the aggressive strategies of the participating banks, the target was achieved six months ahead indicating thereby the popularity of the funds transfer service. It may be recalled that the RTGS System was introduced in March 2004 with just four bank branches on a pilot basis only for inter-bank transactions. Subsequently customer tran

The Reserve Bank of India today released the Vision Document for Payment and Settlement Systems. The document lists the accomplishments in the area of payment system during the last three years and gives a roadmap for its further advancement during the next three years. Safety, security, soundness and efficiency have been identified in the document as the key themes of the payment systems upgradation efforts. Whereas safety in payment and settlement systems relates to

The Reserve Bank of India has, today announced that its Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) System has been enabled for ‘Straight Through Processing’ at the participant’s, that is, the bank’s end for putting through customer transactions. Straight through processing of customer transactions will, upon receiving the credit advice, allow banks to directly credit the customer’s account without any manual intervention. This will facilitate introduction of T+1 settlement in