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State Bank of India on Friday said it has waived off real-time gross settlement (RTGS) and national electronic funds transfer (NEFT) charges from July 1 for its customers who use its YONO (you only need one) app, internet banking and mobile banking.
The country’s largest lender said it will also waive off immediate payment service (IMPS) charges for these services from August 1.
Waiving off the aforementioned charges is aimed at giving a boost to the movement of digital funds, the bank said in a statement. Along with customer convenience, the waiver in NEFT, IMPS and RTGS charges will attract more customers to digital transactions, it added.
As on March 31, the number of SBI customers using internet banking are more than 6 crores and mobile banking services stands at 1.41 crore.
Additionally, the bank has already reduced NEFT and RTGS charges for customers transacting through their branch network by 20 per cent across all slabs.
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“In sync with our strategy and Government of India’s vision to create a digital economy, SBI has taken this step to promote use of YONO, internet banking and mobile banking for doing NEFT and RTGS transactions without incurring any cost,” the bank’s MD (Retail & Digital Banking) P K Gupta said.
The bank has the largest network of 22,010 branches in the country and an ATM/CDM (cash deposit machine) network of over 58,000.
After announcing its decision to waive all charges on fund transfer through RTGS and NEFT systems from July 1, the RBI had also asked banks to pass on the benefits to customers from the same day.
Read more: Transfers via RTGS/NEFT made free
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