IMPS — Immediate Payment Service
An instant fund transfer service. Through internet banking it uses the beneficiary's account number and IFSC; through mobile banking it uses the beneficiary's MMID.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Know Your CustomerThe identity and address check every investor must clear before a bank, broker or depository participant will open an account — mandatory under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002.
- Monetary policyThe central bank's management of money supply and interest rates to promote growth and hold prices stable — expansionary when it wants to push the economy up, contractionary when it wants to cool it.
Where this is taught
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