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Wednesday 25 December 2019

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Q 1 You have received proposal for construction of compos pit and purchase of related equipment for setting up vermicompost unit.  You will not stipulate margin provided the loan is _____ and not stipulate collateral security provide the loan is_____.

a) 25,000 an Rs. Rs. 50,000
b) Rs. 1.00 lakh for both
c) Rs. 1.60 lakh for both
d) Rs. 1.60 lakh and Rs.1.00 lakh

Q 2 The process whereby fertilizers are injected for soil amendments, water amendments, and others amendments generally related with irrigations system, is known as

a) Neo-irrigation
b) Fertigation
c) Chemigation
d) Nurugation

Q 3 National Horticulture Board is located at

a) New Delhi
b) Gurgaon
c) Patiala
d) Palampur

Q 4 It is estimated that startups in year 2019 created indirect jobs to the extent of

a) 1 million
b) 1.5 million
c) 3 million
d) 0.5 million

Q 5 A Regional Rural Bank has made huge gains on account of sale of assets and gain has been taken to Capital Reserve Account.  For the purpose of Capital Adequacy norms, this will be reckoned as

a) Common Equity Capital CET 1
b) Additional Tier I Capital
c) Tier II Capital
d) Not to be reckoned for the purpose of CAR

Q 6 Sovereign Gold Bonds issued by Government of India are held as Bond Ledger Account (BLA).   Your bank proposes to extend loan against security of these bonds. How will you mark lien against this security?

a) SGBs held in BLA cannot be accepted as security

b) The lien can be marked with the depository
c) The lien can be marked in E Kuber portal
d) The lien for BLA bonds are to be marked on Certificate of Holding

Q 7. The RBI has directed the banks to ensure NEFT facility to customers on 24 x 7 hours basis on all days including holidays. The NEFT Facility post banking hours will be available to the customers through

a) Online Gateway
b) Straight Through Process
c) Connect Servers
d) PoS

Q 8 The ______ is the confirmation message given to Customers for NEFT credit

a) N10
b) N11
c) ST10
d) ST11

Q 9  An asset reconstruction company cannot acquire financial assets on bilateral basis from the following  (Mark the answer which contains the correct options)

i) Bank/FI which is sponsor of ARC
ii) Bank/FI which is lender to ARC
iii) Bank/FI which is subscriber to the ARC
iv) An entity in the group to which ARC belongs
a) All are correct
b) only (i)
c) (i) (ii) and (iii)
d) (i) (ii) and (iv)

Q 10 REPO transaction means offering security and obtaining funds against that security, with an agreement to reverse the transaction on maturity of transaction.  The first leg the transaction is completed on

a) The day of transaction
b) next day of transaction
c) On (a) or (b)
d) T+0, or T+1 or T+2

Q 11  The last security to be added in the list of securities against which a repo transaction can be completed.

a) Units of Debt Exchange Traded Funds
b) Certificate of Deposit
c) Commercial Paper
d) Bharat ETF

Q 12 In a repo transaction the value of security, against which repo transaction is made, is valued on day of last leg __________

a) Market Value on the day of last leg
b) Market value as arrived on the day of first leg
c) Market value as arrived on the day of first leg plus interest
d) Not required to be arrived

Q 13 Who among the following has been appointed as Head of National Stock Exchange

a) Ashok Chawla
b) Girish Chaturvedi
c) Lini Sajeesh
d) Ripu Daman

Q 14  Which of the following is true regarding Small Finance Banks

i) Resident Individuals can float a Small Finance Bank
ii) Corporates can float a Small Finance Bank
iii) The minimum capital required is Rs. 200 Cr
iv) The minimum capital required is Rs. 100 Cr
a) (i) (ii) and (iii)
b) (i) (ii) and (iv)
c) (i) and (iii)
d) (ii) and (iii)

Q 15 An individual alongwith relatives can have maximum _____ of paid up voting equity capital in a small finance bank.

a) 15%
b) 10%
c) 26%
d) 40%
Answers

1-c        2-b       3-b       4-b       5-a        6-c        7-b       8-a        9-a        10-c

11-a      12-c      13-b      14-a      15-b

Sunday 9 June 2019

MONETARY POLICY AND FISCAL POLICY







Monetary Policy –

The process by which the Govt., central bank or monetary authority of country controls –

A.      Supply of money

B.      Availability of money

C.      Cost of money or rate of interest

Monetary policy is referred to as either being an expansionary policy or a contractionary policy



Expansionary policy
Contractionary policy
Increase total supply of money in economy
Decrease the total supply of money
Combat unemployment in a recession by lowering interest rate
Raising interest rate in order to combat inflation

  

Monetary policy is contrasted with fiscal policy, which refer to Govt. borrowing, spending & taxation.



Tools of Monetary policy –

A.      Bank Rate

B.      Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)

C.      Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)

D.      Market Stabilization Scheme (MSS)

E.       Repo Rate

F.       Reverse Repo

G.     Open Market Operations (OMO)



Bank Rate

Ø  Also refer to discount rate

Ø  The rate of interest which a central bank charges on the loans and advances that it extends to commercial banks and other financial intermediaries.

Ø  Used by central bank to control the money supply



Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR)

Ø  Banks have to maintain with RBI as a certain percentage of their total deposit (net demand & time deposit) in the form of liquid cash.

Ø  When RBI feels that money supply is increasing and causing an upward pressure on inflation, then RBI has option of increasing the CRR thereby reducing the deposit available with bank to make loan and hence reducing the money supply and inflation



Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR)

Ø  It refer to the amount that all banks require maintaining in cash or in the form of Gold or approved securities (i.e dated securities, Govt. bonds & share)

Ø  SLR is maintained in order to control the expansion of bank credit.

Ø  SLR is a way to ensure the solvency of commercial banks.





Market Stabilization Scheme (MSS)

Ø  Under this scheme, the Govt. would issue existing instrument such as Treasury Bill & or dated securities by way of auction under MSS



Repo Rate

Ø  The rate at which RBI lends short-term money to the banks

Ø  When Repo rate increases, borrowing from RBI becomes more expensive.

Ø  Bank lending rates are determined by the movement of repo rate



Reverse Repo

Ø  The rate at which bank park their short-term excess liquidity with RBI

Ø  An increase in the reverse repo means that the RBI will borrow money from banks at a higher rate of interest.



Open Market Operation (OMO)

Ø  Under the OMO, RBI buys or sells Govt. bonds in the secondary market.








FISCAL POLICY

Ø  Fiscal policy is the use of Govt. spending & revenue collection to influence the economy.

Ø  The two main instrument of fiscal policy are Govt. spending & taxation.

Ø  Govt. use fiscal policy to influence the level of aggregate demand in economy, in an effort to achieve economic objective of price stability, full employment & economic growth.



FRBM Acts

Ø  (Fiscal Responsibility & Budget Management Acts)

Ø  Committee headed by Dr. E. A. S. Sarma in Jan 2000 to recommended draft legislation on fiscal responsibility.

Ø  Submitted in July 2000, introduce in parliament in Dec 2000 & enacted as law in Aug. 2003.






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