Weekly Current Affairs October 2017: Week II PDF

Banking and Financial Awareness

Market regulator SEBI has announced to impose a penalty if a company violates the minimum public shareholding (MPS) norms.
PNB MetLife India Insurance has appointed Ashish Srivastava as its new MD and CEO.
The Reserve Bank of India is to launch a Financial Literacy Drive to educate people on financial awareness like e-transactions, in 9 states.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has signed two more advance pricing agreements (APAs) with taxpayers, related to automobile and healthcare consulting sectors.
Tata AIA Life launched Eazy Connect chatbot, a servicing tool for social media.
The Government of Odisha and the State Bank of India have signed an MOU for integration of SBI e-Pay with the cyber treasury of the state.
SBI has launched a new product called SME Assist ,to provide a short-term working capital loan to its MSME clients.
Mastercard has announced the launch of its global research and development arm Mastercard Labs in Pune, India.
State Bank of India is prepared to set Up Country's Largest Innovation Centre at Mumbai.
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF lowered India’s growth forecast for 2017 to 6.7% from its earlier estimate of 7.2 percent.

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