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The acronym 'RTGS' stands for Real-time gross settlement. The Reserve Bank of India (India's Central Bank) maintains this payment network. Real-time gross settlement is a funds transfer mechanism where transfer of money takes place from one bank to another on a 'real time' and on 'gross' basis.
A banker's draft (also called a bank cheque, bank draft in Canada or, in the US, a teller's check) is a cheque (or check) provided to a customer of a bank or acquired from a bank for remittance purposes, that is drawn by the bank, and drawn on another bank or payable through or at a bank. [1]
In 1991 Indian remittances were valued at US$2.1 billion; [5] [12] in 2006, they were estimated at between $22 billion [13] and $25.7 billion. [ 4 ] which grew to $67.6 billion in 2012–13, up from $66.1 billion the fiscal year, 2011–2012, [ 6 ] when the remittance exceed the foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow of $46.84 billion into India.
[2] [3] A substantial share of remittance ends up in the hands of banks and money-transfer companies due to fees imposed on money transfers. [1] Scholars have linked remittance flows to improved health and education incomes in low-income countries, as the money provides access to food, medicine, health treatments, and education. [1]
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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is an Indian instant payment system as well as protocol developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) in 2016. The interface facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer (P2P) and person-to-merchant (P2M) transactions.
In the legal code of the United States, a money transmitter or money transfer service is a business entity that provides money transfer services or payment instruments. [1] Money transmitters in the US are part of a larger group of entities called money service businesses , or MSBs. [ 2 ]
A cashier's check (or cashier's cheque, cashier's order, official check; in Canada, the term bank draft is used, [1] not to be confused with Banker's draft as used in the United States) is a check guaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own funds and signed by a bank employee. [2]