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Customers Can Now Use IMPS, NEFT To Pay Dues, Says Yes Bank
Yes Bank resumes inward IMPS, NEFT services Payments towards Yes Bank credit cards, other bank loans can be made RBI has taken over Yes Bank, capped withdrawals from its accounts
10 Mar 2020, 11:04 AM IST 
Yes Bank is weighed down by an increasing pile of bad debt
- Depositors rushed to ATMs for withdrawing funds from their accounts following the RBI's move last Thursday to cap the withdrawals at Rs 50,000. While many customers claimed that the bank had not given any prior information about the move, some complained that the ATMs were out of cash.
- Currently, the RBI has capped Yes Bank withdrawals at Rs 50,000 till April 3 and imposed limits on withdrawals to protect the depositors.
- During this period, Yes Bank is not allowed without prior permission of the RBI to make payments in excess of Rs. 50,000 to its savings, current or other account holders.
- The government has prodded State Bank of India - the country's largest bank by assets - to step into the breach and lead the planned rescue of Yes Bank.
- SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar told NDTV on Monday that the current cap on withdrawals from Yes Bank accounts could be lifted "within a week".
- "I want to assure Yes Bank customers that once we (SBI) step in, they shouldn't worry about money... The financial system is sound," he said.
- SBI has agreed to immediately invest Rs 2,450 crore to buy a 49 per cent stake in Yes Bank as part of the RBI-backed rescue deal for the troubled private sector lender.
- Yes Bank's founder and former managing director, Rana Kapoor, is in police custody until March 11 after he was arrested on money-laundering charges.
- Yes Bank, weighed down by an increasing pile of bad debt, had struggled for months to raise the capital it needs to stay above regulatory requirements, without any success.
- Initially, Yes Bank wanted to raise $2 billion, which was later brought down to $1.2 billion as it could not rope in any investor. In February, the bank delayed the release of its financial results for the October-December period.