Focus: GS III- Indian Economy
Why in News?
India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) and Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) have come together to focus their efforts on enhancing the reach of financial solutions to large sections of society across India and enabling frictionless finance to a billion Indians.
Details:
The collaboration between IPPB and RBIH will explore projects which shall have impact on the masses by:
- Leveraging the deep rural reach of IPPB-Department of Posts (DoP) to take Rural Finance to a billion Indians.
- Enabling access to sustainable and secure finance services to every segment of the society, through research and innovation.
- Additionally, IPPB shall be an active participant and partner with RBIH on initiatives of national importance led by RBIH
About India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
- The India Post Payments Bank is a public sector payments bank from India operated by the India Post.
- The India Post Payment Bank (IPPB) was setup under the Department of Post, Ministry of Communication with 100% equity Owned by Government of India.
- The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) will be like any other banks but its operations will be on a smaller scale without involving any credit risk.
- It will carry out most banking operations like accepting deposits but won’t advance loans or issue credit cards.
- Motto: “Every customer is important, every transaction is significant and every deposit is valuable”.
- Vision: “Building the most accessible, affordable and trusted bank for the common man”.
- Mission: “Spearheading financial inclusion by removing barriers and reducing costs for accessing banking services”.
- The IPPB has been integrated with Post Office Savings Bank (POSB).
- The IPPB is the sixth Payments bank, which has become operational after Aditya Birla, Airtel, Fino, Jio and Paytm Payments Banks.
- The freshly-minted payments bank will accept deposits of up to Rs. 1 lakh, offer remittance services, mobile payments/transfers/purchases and other banking services like ATM/debit cards, net banking and third-party fund transfers.
- The Payments bank are licensed under Section 23 of the Banking Regulation Act 1949, and registered as public limited company under the Companies Act, 2013.
