The facility will be available on all days of the year including holidays
All banks will be eligible for the intraday facility, but the limit will be set by the RBI from time to time
Sachin Chaturvedi, a member of the Central Board of RBI, describes Das as a person who brings in pragmatism, commitment, transparency and sincerity to the table.
Currently, the NEFT payment system operated by the RBI as a retail payment system is available for customers from 8 am to 7 pm on all working days of the week, except 2nd & 4th Saturdays of the month
NEFT transactions are settled in hourly batches. For weekdays, the batches are from 8 am to 7 pm. On first and third Saturdays, the settlement happens from 8 am to 1 pm
The RBI earlier this year had waived the charges it levied on banks for transactions routed through NEFT and RTGS
Digital payments constituted a high 96% of total non-cash retail payments during the October 2018 to September 2019
RTGS is mostly used for transactions above Rs 2 lakh. The RBI added it will facilitate the creation of a central payment fraud registry for tracking payment system frauds
Currently, the RBI 'levies minimum charges' on banks for transactions routed through its RTGS and NEFT system
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday directed banks to withdraw the charges levied on the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) and Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) transactions with effect
With this, the total number of half hourly settlement batches during the day will increase to 23