- This licence will enable these banks to offer foreign exchange facilities to non-resident Indians (NRIs) and ease their banking transactions.
- An Authorised Dealer (AD) category-I licence is a licence granted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to banks that allows them to buy and sell foreign exchange for specified purposes like: foreign travel, education abroad, remittances, trade transactions, foreign investments, and other current account transactions.
- The RBI has recently announced that all scheduled small finance banks (SFBs) will be eligible for AD category-I licence after completion of at least two years of operations as AD category-II3. This will give more flexibility to SFBs to meet their customers’ foreign exchange business requirement.
Question:
Q.1 Which two small finance banks have recently received the AD category-I licence from RBI?
a. Ujjivan SFB and Jana SFB
b. AU SFB and Equitas SFB
c. Capital SFB and Fincare SFB
d. ESAF SFB and Utkarsh SFB
a. Ujjivan SFB and Jana SFB
b. AU SFB and Equitas SFB
c. Capital SFB and Fincare SFB
d. ESAF SFB and Utkarsh SFB