RBI/2010-11/188 DPSS (CO) EPPD No.@@NBSP@@ 477/ 04.03.01 / 2010-11 September 1, 2010 The Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of member banks participating in / NEFT / NECS / ECS Madam / Dear Sir, Uniformity in penal interest payable by banks for delays in credit / return of NEFT / NECS / ECS transactions As you are aware, the recent past has been witness to significant growth in retail electronic payment products - both in terms of reach and volum

RBI/2009-10/452 DPSS.CO (CHD) No. 2387/03.06.01/2009-2010 May 6, 2010 The Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer All Scheduled Commercial Banks including RRBs / Urban Co-operative Banks / State Co-operative Banks / District Central Co-operative Banks Madam / Dear Sir, Levy of interest on clearing-related overdraft extended by Clearing House managing banks for settling clearing obligations of member banks As you are aware, in terms of provisions conta

RBI/2009-10/398DPSS CO No. 2232 / 02.27.005/2009-2010 13th April 2010 To All the Payment Systems Operators authorized under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 Know Your Customer (KYC) Norms/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Standards/Combating of Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Please refer to our letter DPSS.CO.AD.1320/02.27.005/2009-10 dated December 22, 2009. 2. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has issued a further Statement on February 18, 2010 on the subject (

RBI/2009-10/269 DPSS.CO.AD.No./1320/02.27.005/2009-10 December 22, 2009 To All the Payment System Operators authorized under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 Madam/Dear Sir, Know Your Customer (KYC) norms/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) obligation of Payment System Operators under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, (PMLA), 2002, as amended by Prevention of Money Laundering (Amendment) Act, 2009 Attention o

RBI/2009-10/265 DPSS (CO) RTGS No. 1313/ 04.04.002 / 2009 – 2010 December 18, 2009 Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of all banks participating in RTGS Madam / Dear Sir, Extension of Service Window for RTGS Transactions Please refer to our previous circular RBI/2008-09/362 (DPSS CO RTGS No.1288/04.04.002/2008-2009) dated January 28, 2009 on the captioned subject. On a review of RTGS timings and the volume of business handled by RTGS on Saturdays

RBI/2009-10/215 DPSS (CO) RTGS No.949/ 04.04.002 / 2009 - 2010 November 11, 2009 Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of all banks participating in RTGS Madam / Dear Sir, RTGS System – Mandatory Beneficiary Account Number The R41 message format in RTGS at present allows transmission of messages even if the beneficiary account number is not given. Further, messages may also flow even if the account number is given in an inappropriate field. 2. Subst

RBI/2009-10/109 DPSS (CO) EPPD No. 191/04.01.01/2009-2010 July 29, 2009 The Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of all banks participating in ECS / National-ECS Madam / Dear Sir, Electronic Clearing Service (ECS) – Accuracy of Input Data and Completeness of Account Number Information in ECS Mandates /Files ECS was introduced during the early nineties as an efficient method for effecting bulk and repetitive transactions electronically. While ECS (C

RBI/2008-09/509DPSS (CO) EPPD No.2283 / 04.01.04 / 2008-2009 June 25, 2009 The Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of all banks participating in NECS Madam / Dear Sir, National Electronic Clearing Service (NECS) – Optimal Usage and Expansion As you are aware, National Electronic Clearing Service (NECS) was introduced during September 2008 for centralised processing of repetitive and bulk payment instructions. NECS facilitates sponsor banks to subm

RBI/2008-09/499 DPSS (CO) RTGS No. 2246 / 04.04.002 / 2008 - 2009 June 16, 2009 Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of all banks participating in RTGS Madam / Dear Sir, RTGS Transactions As per the RTGS Business Guidelines, funds that cannot be credited to the account of the beneficiary for some reason or other, has to be sent back to the sender’s account within one hour and thirty minutes. At present, an RTGS customer transaction that is returned

RBI/2008-09/476 DPSS (CO) RTGS No.1959/04.04.002/2008-2009@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@ @@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@@@NBSP@@ May 11, 2009 Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of all banks participating in RTGS Dea