{"id":105294,"date":"2020-12-14T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T08:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=105294"},"modified":"2020-12-14T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T08:03:33","slug":"increase-in-npci-shareholding-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/increase-in-npci-shareholding-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Increase in NPCI shareholding base"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : How much equity shares of NPCI have been completed private placement ?<br><\/strong>(a) 4.63 percent<br>(b) 8.72 percent<br>(c) 6.50 percent<br>(d) 3.20 percent<br><strong>Answer (a)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has recently(November 2020) announced the completion of private placement of 4.63% of its equity shares worth \u20b981.64 crores.<\/li><li>This broad basing exercise was done to further diversify and distribute the NPCI shareholding to a larger set of the RBI regulated entities and categories of payment industry participants.<\/li><li>NPCI made an offer for the private placement to 131 RBI regulated entities, out of which 19 evinced interest and were allotted shares in NPCI.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shareholder entities<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>With this shareholding expansion, NPCI gets on-board some of the leading banks, new categories of banks and the RBI authorised non-bank entities.<\/li><li>The total shareholder entities for NPCI now stands at 67.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NPCI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>NPCI, a not-for-profit organisation, is an initiative of the RBI and Indian Banks\u2019 Association (IBA).<\/li><li>The company is focused on bringing innovations in the retail payment systems through the use of technology for achieving greater efficiency in operations and widening the reach of digital payment systems.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8212; Pankaj Pandey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npci.org.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.npci.org.in\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : How much equity shares of NPCI have been completed private placement ?(a) 4.63 percent(b) 8.72 percent(c) 6.50 percent(d) 3.20 percentAnswer (a)Related facts National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has recently(November 2020) announced the completion of private placement of 4.63% of its equity shares worth \u20b981.64 crores. This broad basing exercise was done to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":105295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-105294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105296,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105294\/revisions\/105296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}