Today banks are keen in identifying new business niches and more customised services to handle the stiff market competitions. On the other hand inflation is continuing to haunt the policy makers.

In this scenario, RBI is expected to continue putting pressures on banks to increase the interest rates further in the coming year, with the monetary policy review in the end of January 2011.The lending rates has already shown signs of gradual firming up as a response to the regulatory measures put forward by RBI in the second quarter review during the early days of November 2010.

Although the year 2010 started with a good and smooth outflow in the loan segment, the monetary reviews of RBI has mandated certain regulations, both directly and indirectly to control the flow of liquidity in the system. In this fiscal, the policy rates have been raised six times so far.

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Small businesses in the UK could face costly consequences in the New Year if they fail to keep their financial records in order, according to HM Revenue & Customs.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are planning to clampdown on inaccurate bookkeeping and tax underpayments among small businesses in 2011.

The agency plans to use its ‘Business Records Checks’ campaign to target the 40% of small businesses that suffered from poor record keeping and most likely to not pay their taxes.

Over two million small businesses that keep records in poor condition/order will face investigation and fines of up to £3,000.

Inspectors have little understanding of what it is like in the business world, therefore will not be lenient and fully expect records to be kept in text book order.

Richard Mannion, national tax director at accountants Smith & Williamson said:

“One of the difficulties facing entrepreneurs and SMEs is that they may have to keep records for income tax, VAT, capital gains tax, PAYE and so on. Separa

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When we held the first Oregon Business Summit in 2002, Duncan Wyse and I thought success would be having enough people to fill a couple of booths at a Denny’s. In fact, when an ice storm came out of nowhere we thought we were jinxed.

When the doors opened, like this morning, there were hundreds of business people from every corner of the state. Today, this is the place to be. From the beginning, the key principles of this summit have been reconciliation and compromise with as much bipartisanship as we could get our hands on. It’s still that way. Let me give you an example. When I arrived at the Pendleton Round-Up last September after a bone-crunching, 13-hour flight from Washington, D.C, a local rancher came up to me, shook my hand and said: “You are doing great back there in DC, guy. Keep up the great work, Greg!” Now, obviously, he thought I was Congressman Greg Walden. Not wanting to pass up the chance to hitch a ride on Greg’s coattails and advance the cause of bipartisanship, I said: “Hey, thanks a lot. And I like

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Prepayment implies closing the loan earlier than planned. Most banks impose a penalty on prepayment. The prepayment can be charged in two cases. One, when you prepay with your own sources. In this case, you issue a cheque from your account. Second, you refinance the loan from another bank. Impact of prepayment The prepayment penalty for public sector banks is about 1% or less while it can be anywhere between 1% and 3% in private banks. In many cases, banks do not charge any prepayment penalty if you prepay using your own sources. The penalty is calculated on principal. Hence if you have 20 lakhs of loan outstanding, the penalty could be from 0 to Rs 60,000 depending on banks.

Now, when it comes to figuring your outstanding loan amount do not assume that    for instance if you have taken a 40L loan for a 20 year tenure, you would have paid 20L in 10 years.  Here is why. During the initial years of repayment the interest component repaid is higher and during the latter years the principal component is higher. So

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The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK has a wide remit. In March 2011 this remit further expands, with backing from Google, to look at claims and sales practises on websites. It’s already possible for the ASA to investigate PPC campaigns.

Natural search results are exempt from the expanded remit as is user generated content provided it is not then used in marketing communications. It might be tempting to consider SEO outside the ASA’s area of interest but this is not the case.

In fact, it is the presentation of the natural search results that are exempt from the Committee of Advertising Practise not the methods by which these are achieved. For example, if Google’s search snippet suggests that Widget X is for sale from your site for £9.99 but you’ve recently increased the price to £11.99 then the CAP will not consider you at fault. They accept it’s up to Google to update the search snippet.

So, when would the ASA consider investigating brands, agencies and website owners for SEO tactics? One very po

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