Friday, 22 November 2013

Banking Terms

Devaluation
Devaluation means official lowering of the value of a country's currency within a fixed exchange rate system, by which the monetary authority formally sets a new fixed rate with respect to a foreign reference currency.

Depreciation
It is used to describe a decrease in a currency's value (relative to other major currency benchmarks) due to market forces, not government or central bank policy actions.

Account statement
Account statement is a periodic statement of all the debit and credit transactions on an account.

Anywhere Banking
Customer can deposit/ withdraw cash at any branch other than the branch in which he holds the account. It is made possible by core banking solutions.

Bankruptcy
A legal action, in which a person who is not able to repay his loans satisfactorily, is declared bankrupt by a court order. The collateral or security in this case becomes liable to be attached by administration to satisfy creditors.

Bounced cheque 
A cheque, which a bank returns unpaid because there is no enough balance in the account or for other reasons.

Draft
A written, signed and dated order from one Branch of a Bank to another , to pay a sum of money to a specific party. 

Drawee
The person or entity on whom a draft/bill is drawn by the drawer.

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
Any transfer of funds initiated by electronic means, such as an electronic terminal, telephone, computer, ATM or magnetic tape.

Over limit Fees
Whenever a credit card holder crosses his credit limits an overlimit fees is charged on his account.

Fiscal Year
A fiscal year is a 12-month accounting period used by any company and it does not necessarily follow the calendar year. India fiscal year is April to March.

Fixed Deposit
A deposit of funds in a bank under an agreement stipulating that the funds must be kept on deposit for a stated period of time at a predefined interest rate.

MICR Code
A unique 9-digit code assigned to each Bank branch by Reserve Bank of India to facilitate sorting in clearing of instruments using the Magnetic Ink Character Recognition Technology.

National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT)
An Electronic Payment System in which payment instructions between banks are processed and settled on deferred net settlement (DNS) basis, which settles transactions in batches at fixed times during the day.

White label ATMs
These are the ATMs owned by non-banking finance companies. For e.g., TATA is having an ATM network brand named as IndiCash.

Brown label ATMs
These are the ATMs owned by companies, but operated by banks

Outstanding Cheque
Outstanding cheque is issued by the company which is not yet cleared by the bank. In preparing the bank reconciliation, it is deducted from the bank balance.

Overdraft
An overdraft occurs when you do not have enough available funds in your account to cover a cheque or other withdrawal, but the bank pays the items and overdraws your account.

Payee
The person who receives a payment is known as payee. This often applies to cheque. If you receive a cheque you are the payee and the person or company who wrote the cheque is the payer or drawer

Payer
The person who makes a payment is known as payer. This often applies to cheque. If you write a cheque you are the payer and the recipient of the cheque is the payee.

Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)
RTGS is a system through which electronic instructions can be given by banks to transfer funds from their account to the account of another bank. The RTGS system is maintained and operated by the RBI and provides a means of efficient and faster funds transfer among banks facilitating their financial operations. As the name suggests, funds transfer between banks takes place on a ‘real time’ basis. Therefore, money can reach the beneficiary instantaneously and the beneficiary’s bank has the responsibility to credit the beneficiary’s account within two hours.

No frill Account
No frill account is Zero Balance account. Zero balance is when the total outstanding balance is paid and there are no new charges or cash advances during a billing cycle.

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