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IBPS GK Questions 2026

Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.

IBPS GK Questions with Answers

Q4921.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Debt Recovery Tribunals in India were established under an Act of which year?

  1. A.1949
  2. B.1985
  3. C.1993
  4. D.2002
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Correct answer: C. 1993

The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, passed after the Tiwari Committee recommended a special forum for bank dues, created the Debt Recovery Tribunals and the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals to decide applications by banks and financial institutions above a prescribed amount and to issue…

Q4922.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Which Act enables a bank to take possession of the security for a loan without the intervention of a court?

  1. A.The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993
  2. B.The SARFAESI Act, 2002
  3. C.The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
  4. D.The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
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Correct answer: B. The SARFAESI Act, 2002

Its full name is the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, and Section 13 lets a secured creditor issue a demand notice under sub-section (2) giving the borrower sixty days to pay and, on default, take possession of the secured asset under sub-section (4)…

Q4923.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Dishonour of a cheque for insufficiency of funds in the account is an offence under which section of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881?

  1. A.Section 31
  2. B.Section 118
  3. C.Section 138
  4. D.Section 148
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Correct answer: C. Section 138

Inserted into the Negotiable Instruments Act by the amendment of 1988, it makes the drawer of a cheque that is returned unpaid for insufficiency of funds, or because it exceeds the arrangement, punishable with imprisonment or fine, provided the payee gives notice of demand within the prescribed time and the…

Q4924.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Statutory Liquidity Ratio is prescribed under which provision?

  1. A.Section 42(1) of the RBI Act, 1934
  2. B.Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  3. C.Section 17 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.Section 45-IA of the RBI Act, 1934
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Correct answer: B. Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949

It requires every banking company to maintain in India, in cash, gold or unencumbered approved securities, assets of a value not less than the prescribed percentage of its demand and time liabilities, and that percentage is the Statutory Liquidity Ratio.

Q4926.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Banking Companies Act, 1949 was renamed the Banking Regulation Act with effect from:

  1. A.1 April 1935
  2. B.1 January 1949
  3. C.1 March 1966
  4. D.19 July 1969
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Correct answer: C. 1 March 1966

The Act was passed in 1949 as the Banking Companies Act and came into force on 16 March 1949; when its scope was extended to cooperative banks, it was renamed the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 with effect from 1 March 1966, the year being retained in the title.

Q4927.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Which Act gives the Reserve Bank of India the sole right to issue bank notes in India?

  1. A.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  2. B.The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
  3. C.The Coinage Act, 2011
  4. D.The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
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Correct answer: B. The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934

Section 22 of that Act gives the Reserve Bank the sole right to issue bank notes in India, and the Bank has done so since it began operations on 1 April 1935.

Q4940.Indian EconomyMedium

The Small Industries Development Bank of India was established in which year, and where is its headquarters?

  1. A.1982, Mumbai
  2. B.1990, Lucknow
  3. C.1991, New Delhi
  4. D.2000, Kanpur
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Correct answer: B. 1990, Lucknow

SIDBI was set up in 1990 as the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of micro, small and medium enterprises, and it works mainly by refinancing banks and other lenders rather than by lending directly to every unit.