List of top General Awareness Questions on Banking and Finance

As per reports published in various newspapers, RBI has asked banks to make plans to provide banking services in villages having a population of 2000. This directive issued by the RBI will fall in which of the following categories?
Which of the following is/are treated as artificial currency?
Which of the following terms indicates a mechanism used by commercial banks to provide credit to the Government?
Many times we read in the newspaper that several companies are adopting the FCCB route to raise capital. What is the full form of FCCB?
Why is the offering of “teaser loans” by commercial banks a cause of economic concern?
1. Teaser loans are considered to be an aspect of sub-prime lending, and banks may be exposed to the risk of defaulters in future.
2. Teaser loans are given to inexperienced entrepreneurs to set up manufacturing or export units.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
What is ‘Share swap’?
A. A business takeover in which the acquiring company uses its own stock to pay for the acquired company.
B. When a company uses its own shares to get a short-term loan for working capital requirements.
C. When companies are required to float a new issue to earn capital for their expansion programmes, and each shareholder gets some additional preferential shares. This process is known as Share Swap.
Both Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) investment are related to investment in a country. Which one of the following statements best represents an important difference between the two?
Who declares the "Credit Policy" of India?
At what frequency SENSEX calculation is carried out?
Which out of the following holds the highest number of shares of ICICI Bank?
In banking terminology, CRR means