BANKING AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The payments bank will be registered as a public limited company under the Companies Act, 2013, and licensed under Section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, with specific licensing conditions restricting its activities mainly to acceptance of demand deposits and provision of payments and remittance services.

Detailed explanation-2: -(1) Save as hereinafter provided, no company shall carry on banking business in India unless it holds a licence issued in that behalf by the Reserve Bank and any such licence may be issued subject to such conditions as the Reserve Bank may think fit to impose.]

Detailed explanation-3: -For commencing banking business, a primary (urban) cooperative bank, as in the case of commercial bank, is required to obtain a licence from the Reserve Bank of India, under the provisions of Section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (As Applicable to Cooperative Societies).

Detailed explanation-4: -Section 21. Power of Reserve Bank to control advances by banking companies. Section 21A. Rates of interest charged by banking companies not to be subject to scrutiny by courts.