The World of Fintech

The world of Fintech The combination of Startups and Finance has lighted the thought bubble of Techies. This has prodded them to move forward to build a space that blends both. Basically Fintech organisations use technology to help users avail financial services effortlessly and on the go. Fintech encompasses all technology-based companies operating in insurance, …

What is Allowance in Income Tax and its Types?

As a novice taxpayer, understanding what the connection between your salary and allowances is essential. An allowance is a part of your salary structure that the employer pays at regular intervals. These allowances are added to your salary and taxed under the salaries as per the Income Tax Act guidelines. Tax-free allowances in salary are …

Fixed Deposits Versus Mutual Funds

In our financial space, we come to a state, where we have sufficient funds, and we wish to invest a chunk of it for future plans and goals. Two very popularly used media for investment are Fixed deposits and Mutual Funds. We will distinguish between the two after we define them properly. Fixed Deposits Here …

Social Media Score can affect your credit score

We are aware of how vast and effective Social Media has become. In fact we owe our ability to be aware about what is going on to social media. Social media has ceased to be just a platform for interacting and socialising. It is much more now. Traditional verification to evaluate our monetary potential fails …

Understanding Loan Repayment: A Comprehensive Guide

Have you ever looked at your loan statement and wondered, ‘How do I repay my personal loan faster without feeling broke every month?’ Well, you’re not the only one who feels like this.  Most of us take loans at some point. Sometimes for emergencies, sometimes for big goals and then suddenly the EMIs start to …

Planning for Retirement

“Retirement” .Do we need to think about it at all? If no, then perhaps now is the time to stop giving a cold shoulder to it. Being ignorant does not help carve a secure future. Though we are young and quite able at this stage in our lives. But do we think of times when …

Tips to Consider before Lending Money to Friends

Lending money to friends becomes a difficult choice at times. Money has the tendency to create rifts between closely bonded people. Yet money is a topic that becomes unavoidable. Lending and borrowing between friends can lead to sequences of debts, debt traps, uninvited apprehension and animosity. Situations where the money is borrowed, and half-returned, partially …

Setting Personal Budgets

In our lives today, it seems that we are constantly in our running shoes, because all we do is race to fulfilling our duties, necessities and obligations. Expenses are never-ending. How we wished that we could count the expenses on our fingers, but unfortunately we cannot. It has become extremely necessary to have a budget …

Learn Income Tax Return Filing For Any Income in India

If handling finances wasn’t enough, we have taxes in place too to give us gripping nightmares. However tax payment and filing income tax returns are both crucial for achieving a financial stability in life. ITR filing is mandatory is a person’s gross total pay exceeds 2.5 lakhs. The basic motive for filling income tax return …

How Net Banking Can Save Time?

Let’s first have a conversation on what net banking is. In the simple words, we can monitor our bank account online and even carry out transactions with net banking. This electronic payment system frees us of the task of physically going to a bank. We can carry out multiple transactions on the bank/financial institution’s website …