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Banking Awareness for IBPS Exam 2017

Just a few days are left for IBPS Clerk Mains. It is time to pace up your preparation of Banking Awareness for IBPS SO and Clerk Mains. These questions related to Banking Awareness will also help you in preparing for other upcoming banking recruitment examination.

Q1. Which country has become the first country to roll out its own digital cash recently?

(a) Peru

(b) Estonia

(d) Eduador

(e) Kenya

Q2. The International Monetary Fund has approved a new USD 88 billion credit line for __________ replacing the existing line.

(a) Mexico

(b) Japan

(d) France

(e) Ireland

Q3. The government has fixed 2,952 rupees per gram as price of new series of SGBs recently. SGBs stands for-

(a) Services Gold Bonds

(b) Sovereign Green Bonds

(d) Sovereign Gold Banks

(e) Systematic Gold Bonds

Q4. The government of India has increased the budget of Agricultural Education by __________ this year as compared to the financial year 2013-14.

(a) 71.3%

(b) 83.7%

(d) 36.2%

(e) 47.4%

Q5. Which Bank has launched its RuPay Select and RuPay Platinum credit cards recently?

(a) Dena Bank

(b) Corporation Bank

(d) State Bank of India

(e) Punjab National Bank

Q6. The first one rupee note was printed in India on _______________ with the photo of King George V.

(a) 30th November 1915

(b) 30th November 1917

(d) 30th November 1921

(e) 30th November 1919

Q7. A new Payments Bank ‘Paytm Payments Bank’ was formally launched at the hands of the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Who is the Chairman of Paytm Payments Bank?

(a) RS Sodhi

(b) Suresh Sethi

(d) Shashi Arora

(e) Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Q8. The government launched the ‘Bharat 22’ ETF managed by ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, targeting an initial amount of about Rs8,000 crore. What is the meaning of “T” in ETF?

(a) Timing

(b) Transaction

(d) Treaty

(e) Trended

Q9. Name the Bank, which has launched digital Supply Chain Finance solution which aims to accelerate working capital loan opportunities for the small and medium enterprises and large corporate clients?

(a) Bank of Baroda

(b) Corporation Bank

(d) State Bank of India

(e) Punjab National Bank

Q10. Indian online payments firm BillDesk-owned Hatio Innovations has launched cryptocurrency exchange ‘Coinome’ in India offering trading of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. BillDesk based in-

(a) Hyderabad

(b) Chennai

(d) Mumbai

(e) New Delhi

Q11. A report by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch has stated that in the next decade, which country will overtake Japan to become the third-largest economy?

(a) India

(b) China

(d) Germany

(e) France

Q12. The Income Tax Department has clarified that the cash sales of agricultural produce by a cultivator to a trader for less than ______________ will not attract tax under the Income Tax Act.

(a) 5 lakh rupees

(b) 2 lakh rupees

(d) 3 lakh rupees

(e) 1 lakh rupees

Q13. The Union government has unveiled an ambitious plan to infuse Rs 2.11 lakh crore capital over the next two years into public sector banks (PSBs) that are saddled with high. This recapitalisation bonds worth Rs ________ crore.

(a) Rs1.75 lakh crore

(b) Rs1.55 lakh crore

(d) Rs1.15 lakh crore

(e) Rs1.25 lakh crore

Q14. Who is the present President of World Bank?

(a) Ban Ki-moon

(b) Antonio Guterres

(d) Jim Yong Kim

(e) Takehiko Nakao

Q15. Who has been appointed as 15th Finance Commission Chairman?

(a) Shaktikanta Das

(b) Anoop Singh