{"id":2533,"date":"2019-06-22T02:39:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2019-06-22T02:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:39:44","slug":"rbi-imposes-rs-1-crore-penalty-on-hdfc-for-violating-its-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/rbi-imposes-rs-1-crore-penalty-on-hdfc-for-violating-its-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"RBI imposes Rs.1 crore penalty on HDFC for violating its norms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe<strong>&nbsp;Reserve\nBank of India (RBI)<\/strong>&nbsp;imposed&nbsp;<strong>Rs.1 crore penalty<\/strong>&nbsp;on\nprivate sector lender<strong>&nbsp;HDFC\nBank<\/strong>&nbsp;for violating<strong>&nbsp;know\nyour customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) norms.&nbsp;<\/strong>The\npenalty was imposed on<strong>&nbsp;18\nJune 2019.<\/strong><br><br><strong>Reason:<\/strong><br>\nRBI had received a reference from<strong>&nbsp;customs\u2019 authorities<\/strong>&nbsp;regarding\nsubmission of<strong>&nbsp;forged\nbill of entries (BoEs)<\/strong>&nbsp;by certain importers to the bank\nfor<strong>&nbsp;remittance of\nforeign currency.<\/strong><br>\nRBI&#8217;s examination revealed the violations of the\nRBI directions on KYC\/AML norms and on reporting of frauds. RBI said that the\npenalties are based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance. Also it is not\nintended to pronounce upon the validity of any transaction or agreement entered\ninto by the banks with their customers.<br>\nRBI said that a notice was issued to HDFC Bank\non why monetary penalty should not be imposed for&nbsp;<strong>non-compliance with the directions<\/strong>.\nThe fine was imposed on HDFC after considering HDFC Bank&#8217;s reply, oral\nsubmissions made during the personal hearing and additional submission made.\nRBI imposed the penalty in exercise of powers vested to it under the provisions\nof<strong>&nbsp;Section\n47A(1)(c) with Section 46(4)(i) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Reserve Bank of India (RBI)&nbsp;imposed&nbsp;Rs.1 crore penalty&nbsp;on private sector lender&nbsp;HDFC Bank&nbsp;for violating&nbsp;know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) norms.&nbsp;The penalty was imposed on&nbsp;18 June 2019. Reason: RBI had received a reference from&nbsp;customs\u2019 authorities&nbsp;regarding submission of&nbsp;forged bill of entries (BoEs)&nbsp;by certain importers to the bank for&nbsp;remittance of foreign currency. RBI&#8217;s examination revealed the violations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}