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NEFT, RTGS & IMPS Bank Transfers

Compare twelve evidence-backed bank implementations of NEFT, RTGS and IMPS without treating the three rails as interchangeable: RBI/NPCI mechanics, bank/channel/customer-set limits, beneficiary activation/cooling, online-versus-branch charges, authentication, time windows and failure/reversal handling are stored separately.

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AU Small Finance BankBank transfer service

AU Small Finance Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

AU's transfer profile provides unusually explicit shared AU 0101 App/NetBanking limits: ₹10 lakh daily for NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, a ₹50,000 first-three-hours new-payee cap and a separate ₹50,000 one-time-transfer path.

First-party checked8 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible AU account with AU 0101 transaction access and sufficient available balance. Customer-managed/default digital limits and the underlying account's own restrictions remain applicable.
Best fitAU customers who want app and NetBanking limits, a short new-payee restriction and AU's nightly NEFT/RTGS maintenance window documented in one rail-specific profile.
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Axis BankBank transfer service

Axis Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

Axis Bank's evidence-backed NEFT/RTGS/IMPS profile anchored to its current remittance form and RBI/NPCI rail rules, while keeping scheme-code limits and migration-specific beneficiary cooling from being generalized to all customers.

First-party checked5 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires sufficient funds and an eligible Axis account/channel. The current form explicitly makes IMPS daily capacity subject to the account holder's scheme-code transfer limit.
Best fitAxis customers who want reliable rail mechanics and the bank's current ₹5 lakh IMPS transaction ceiling without turning product/scheme-specific or migrated-Citi limits into universal Axis rules.
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Bank of BarodaBank transfer service

Bank of Baroda Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

Bank of Baroda's bank-transfer profile explicitly separating bob World mobile limits from bob World Internet Banking limits, with rail-specific beneficiary cooling and current IMPS service charges.

First-party checked6 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible Bank of Baroda account and channel registration. Underlying account scheme and mode of operation can alter eligibility and charges.
Best fitBank of Baroda customers who need a precise mobile-versus-web view because the same NEFT/RTGS/IMPS rail has materially different transfer ceilings depending on channel.
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Canara BankBank transfer service

Canara Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

Canara Bank's NEFT/RTGS/IMPS profile combining ai1 mobile-transfer limits and beneficiary cooling with its current non-credit service-charge schedule and RBI/NPCI rail mechanics.

First-party checked6 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible Canara account/channel and sufficient balance. Mobile Banking's cumulative limit is a channel control and does not change the account's own balance/transaction restrictions.
Best fitCanara customers who use ai1 and want the app's ₹7.5 lakh interbank daily ceiling, first-hour beneficiary block and current transfer charges kept separate from RBI/NPCI system limits.
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Federal BankBank transfer service

Federal Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

Federal Bank's transfer profile combines FedNet's customer-set limit model, conditional beneficiary activation, 24x7 sub-₹10-lakh NEFT/RTGS availability and current FedNet/FedMobile charge treatment without inventing one bankwide daily cap.

First-party checked6 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible Federal Bank account linked to FedNet/FedMobile with transaction rights, sufficient balance and a customer/client transaction limit. No separate FedNet minimum balance is imposed beyond the underlying account's rules.
Best fitFederal Bank customers who want to understand how their own FedNet transaction limit, 2FA choice and beneficiary state affect transfers rather than relying on a generic maximum.
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HDFC BankBank transfer service

HDFC Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

HDFC Bank's retail NEFT/RTGS/IMPS profile separating the customer TPT ceiling, night/holiday NEFT restriction, IMPS transaction cap and stricter RTGS new-beneficiary rule.

First-party checked7 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible HDFC Bank account and Third Party Transfer rights; the underlying account and customer-set TPT limit remain controlling.
Best fitHDFC customers who use NetBanking/MobileBanking and need to understand why a ₹50 lakh TPT ceiling does not mean the same amount, timing or beneficiary state for NEFT, RTGS and IMPS.
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ICICI BankBank transfer service

ICICI Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

ICICI Bank's NEFT/RTGS/IMPS profile preserving segment-sensitive NEFT/RTGS limits, different iMobile versus Retail Net Banking ceilings and customer-category first-24-hour payee limits.

First-party checked6 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible ICICI Bank account and available transfer limit; account/segment status can materially change NEFT/RTGS ceilings and first-day payee limits.
Best fitICICI customers who need high-value digital transfers and want the segment/time-window rules kept separate from iMobile's ₹20 lakh daily transfer ceiling and Net Banking's default ₹10 lakh limit.
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IDFC FIRST BankBank transfer service

IDFC FIRST Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

IDFC FIRST Bank's transfer profile is anchored to its current Internet Banking limit sheet, which publishes a 30-minute beneficiary cooling period, first-day beneficiary cap, one-time-transfer cap and separate NEFT/RTGS/IMPS limits.

First-party checked6 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible IDFC FIRST account, Internet Banking transaction rights, sufficient available funds and any individual-beneficiary/overall limit selected under Limit Management.
Best fitIDFC FIRST customers who want a clearly documented Internet Banking transfer state with an explicit customer-set overall limit and new-beneficiary controls.
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IndusInd BankBank transfer service

IndusInd Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

IndusInd's transfer profile separates the current INDIE mobile ₹10 lakh cumulative fund-transfer control from IndusNet/IndusDirect RTGS limits and preserves a live conflict in the bank's first-24-hour mobile security disclosures.

First-party checked8 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible IndusInd account and channel transaction rights with sufficient available funds. Mobile and Internet Banking limits are independent of the underlying account's balance or programme eligibility.
Best fitIndusInd customers who use both mobile and Internet Banking and need device-registration cooling, customer-set app limits and rail/channel limits kept separate.
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Kotak Mahindra BankBank transfer service

Kotak Mahindra Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

Kotak's bank-transfer profile keeps customer-segment CRN limits, rail-specific permissible ceilings, one-time transfers and beneficiary security states separate across the Bank App, Net Banking and branch channels.

First-party checked8 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible Kotak account with transaction rights and sufficient available funds. The CRN transfer limit is a security/channel setting and does not replace the balance, lien or account-programme rules of the underlying account.
Best fitKotak customers who need to distinguish their normal segment/customer-set daily limit from a rail's larger technical ceiling and from temporary limits on a newly added beneficiary.
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State Bank of IndiaBank transfer service

SBI Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

State Bank of India's retail bank-transfer profile for OnlineSBI, YONO and YONO Lite, separating the shared third-party daily limit from IMPS per-transaction rules, beneficiary cooling and rail-specific system mechanics.

First-party checked6 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an SBI account with transaction rights in RINB/YONO/YONO Lite. The payment rail does not change the underlying account's balance, KYC or product restrictions.
Best fitSBI retail customers who want one evidence-backed view of NEFT, RTGS and IMPS limits across OnlineSBI/YONO while keeping the four-day new-beneficiary security state separate from the normal ₹25 lakh third-party ceiling.
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YES BANKBank transfer service

YES BANK Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPS

YES BANK's transfer profile uses YES ONLINE's current rail-specific rules: NEFT and IMPS have no minimum, RTGS starts at ₹2 lakh, IMPS has a ₹2 lakh per-transaction cap and daily usage is constrained by the lower customer-set or bank-enforced limit.

First-party checked6 bank sourcesReviewed September 10, 2026
Balance ruleRequires an eligible YES BANK account with YES ONLINE/Mobile/branch transaction access, sufficient available funds and a daily transaction limit. The lower of the customer-set and bank-enforced daily limit governs where stated.
Best fitYES BANK customers who want bank-enforced and self-set daily controls kept distinct from rail per-transaction rules and account-specific fee schedules.
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How to compare

Check the terms that can change the decision.

Category membership alone does not make products interchangeable. Recheck the bank's current controlling agreement, tariff or effective-rate table before acting.

01

Rail mechanics first

NEFT settles in RBI half-hourly batches, RTGS settles transaction-by-transaction in real time with a ₹2 lakh minimum, and IMPS is instant with a ₹5 lakh NPCI per-transaction ceiling. Do not rank them from a single amount column.

02

System capacity is not the bank limit

RBI places no system ceiling on NEFT and no maximum on RTGS, but the remitter bank, channel, account programme, customer-set limit or beneficiary state can still impose a much lower usable amount.

03

Beneficiary state is rail-specific

A bank can activate one beneficiary after minutes or hours, then apply a lower first-day/four-day cap; RTGS may have a stricter waiting rule than NEFT/IMPS. Store the waiting state with the exact rail/channel.

04

Channel limits must stay attached

Mobile, Internet Banking, branch and business channels can publish different transaction and daily ceilings. A web ₹25 lakh limit must not overwrite a ₹5 lakh mobile limit.

05

Charges need account scope

Online savings-account NEFT/RTGS can be free while branch, current-account or IMPS transactions remain chargeable. Waivers from premium/salary/basic accounts are not bankwide prices.

06

Failure handling differs

IMPS pending/reversal TAT, NEFT returns and RTGS finality are different operational states. The engine records the bank or payment-system recovery path instead of using a generic failed-payment paragraph.

07

Conflicting bank pages stay visible

When two live first-party pages disagree on beneficiary cooling, first-day caps or channel limits, keep both source-scoped instead of silently selecting the more convenient number.

NEFT / RTGS / IMPS implementation matrix

Match the rail, channel, customer-set limit and beneficiary state before comparing a headline limit.

RBI/NPCI define the payment-system mechanics; banks can still impose lower channel, account, segment, beneficiary, customer-set or temporary security controls. Charges and availability windows stay attached to their exact channel/account scope.

Research matrix: Bank transfer service; NEFT / RTGS; IMPS / beneficiary state
Bank transfer serviceNEFT / RTGSIMPS / beneficiary state
AU Small Finance Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSRetail AU 0101 minimum ₹1, maximum ₹10 lakh. Online transfer generally 24x7, with AU's published 11:45 PM–12:30 AM daily NEFT/RTGS unavailability window. Retail AU 0101 minimum ₹2 lakh, maximum ₹10 lakh. Online generally 24x7 except the 11:45 PM–12:30 AM window; branch availability follows branch service hours.Retail AU 0101 minimum ₹1, maximum ₹10 lakh in AU's current digital limit table. IMPS remains available during the bank's nightly NEFT/RTGS gap and is not offered at branch. New payee: transfers restricted to ₹50,000 for the first 3 hours post-addition, then default limits apply. One-time transfer without a saved payee has a separate ₹50,000 limit. The three-hour new-payee state is a reduced-limit period rather than a complete transfer blackout. Corporate and retail payee controls should not be mixed.
Axis Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSRBI NEFT has no system floor/ceiling and operates 24x7 in half-hourly batches. Axis's current form permits cash NEFT up to ₹49,999 and requires photo ID for non-customer cash remittance; account/channel limits still apply for digital use. RBI minimum ₹2 lakh, 24x7 real-time settlement and no RBI maximum. Axis's current bank form does not publish one universal retail digital maximum, so product/account scheme limits remain controlling.Axis's May 2025-version remittance form states up to ₹5 lakh per IMPS transaction, subject to the per-day transfer limit for the account holder's Axis scheme code. Pending IMPS can transfer or revert within T+2 days. Generic bankwide current beneficiary waiting/first-day figures were not established by the reviewed primary remittance form. Migration-specific Citi-to-Axis material is retained as scoped evidence, not generalized. No universal bankwide cooling amount is asserted from the current generic form. Where a customer's specific Axis app/account migration journey displays a temporary limit, that live scoped control overrides the generic profile.
Bank of Baroda Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSbob World mobile default: minimum ₹5, maximum ₹2 lakh/transaction, ₹5 lakh/day. Current retail Internet Banking table: ₹10 lakh/transaction and ₹25 lakh/day. RBI NEFT itself has no system floor/ceiling. bob World mobile: minimum ₹2 lakh, maximum ₹2 lakh/transaction, ₹5 lakh/day. Current retail Internet Banking: ₹10 lakh/transaction, ₹25 lakh/day. RBI minimum remains ₹2 lakh and the RBI system has no maximum.bob World mobile beneficiary transfer: ₹2 lakh/transaction/day; instant IMPS without beneficiary ₹25,000/transaction and ₹50,000/day. Current retail Internet Banking: ₹5 lakh/transaction/day. NPCI system ceiling is ₹5 lakh/transaction. New beneficiary registration uses OTP + transaction PIN; current bob World FAQ states 4-hour cooling for IMPS/NEFT and 24-hour cooling for RTGS. The rail-specific waiting period blocks immediate use of a newly added beneficiary; after cooling, the applicable mobile or Internet Banking limit table controls.
Canara Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSRBI NEFT has no system floor/ceiling and settles 24x7 in 48 half-hourly batches. Canara ai1 applies the mobile interbank daily ceiling up to ₹7.5 lakh; savings-bank online NEFT is nil-charge under the current service schedule. RBI minimum ₹2 lakh, 24x7 real-time and no RBI upper ceiling. Canara ai1's mobile interbank daily cap can still constrain the transfer; the current Canara schedule lists outward RTGS ₹24.50/₹49.50 + GST by slab.Instant 24x7 with NPCI ₹5 lakh per-transaction ceiling. Canara ai1 remains subject to the ₹7.5 lakh/day mobile interbank aggregate; Direct Pay without beneficiary is separately ₹25,000/day. New Canara ai1 beneficiary: no transfer for first 1 hour; after 1 hour and up to 12 hours, up to ₹50,000; after 12 hours, full permitted daily limit. Night-time additions use the bank's 6 AM timing rule. New Mobile Banking registration: first 24h cumulative ₹15,000, split ₹5,000 Quick Pay + ₹10,000 to a new beneficiary after one hour. Standing instruction to a newly added beneficiary is enabled after 24h.
Federal Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSFedNet documents NEFT up to ₹10 lakh as available 24x7 subject to the client's set transaction limit. Enhanced limits beyond ₹10 lakh are available Monday–Friday and eligible Saturdays from 8:45 AM–6:30 PM. RTGS uses the applicable ₹2 lakh system minimum. FedNet documents transfers up to ₹10 lakh 24x7 subject to the client-set limit, with enhanced limits beyond ₹10 lakh during the published working-day window.IMPS is an instant digital rail; the reviewed Federal sources do not provide one clean universal Federal customer maximum, so v1.39 preserves the customer/channel limit model rather than inventing a daily cap. Newly added FedNet beneficiaries are activated instantly for most 2FA arrangements, but customers who selected SMS OTP as 2FA have a 24-hour beneficiary activation wait. Beneficiary cooling is authentication-form-factor dependent, not a universal Federal number. FedNet also allows customer transaction limits to be changed through its limit-management service.
HDFC Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSOnline 24x7 in RBI batches. 7 AM–7 PM on RBI working days: daily amount follows TPT, up to ₹50 lakh. Outside those hours and on holidays: ₹2 lakh per transaction, with multiple transfers allowed within the TPT ceiling. Minimum ₹2 lakh. Branch has no HDFC upper ceiling stated on the reviewed page; NetBanking daily transfer follows TPT up to ₹50 lakh. HDFC advertises 24x7 RTGS except 11:30 PM–12:30 AM due to its cut-off.Account+IFSC: up to ₹5 lakh per transaction after the first-day beneficiary restriction, with daily amount governed by TPT. MMID-based transfers use a much lower ₹5,000-per-day Customer ID limit in reviewed HDFC material. Other-bank beneficiary activation takes about 30 minutes. Maximum four payment modes/payees can be added in 24 hours under the reviewed transfer guidance. New beneficiary: ₹50,000 total during first 24 hours for applicable transfers. RTGS is separately blocked until 24 hours have passed after beneficiary addition. Mobile-device registration can create additional app-specific restrictions that remain in the digital-banking profile.
ICICI Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSMinimum ₹1. Maximum depends on segment/time: reviewed table shows ₹10 lakh or ₹1 crore from 1 AM–7 PM, and ₹10 lakh or ₹50 lakh during 7 PM–1 AM and holidays, based on customer segment. Minimum ₹2 lakh. The combined current limits table uses the same segment/time bands as NEFT; ICICI's dedicated RTGS page also displays a simpler ₹10 lakh/day figure, so the engine retains source scope rather than flattening them.Account+IFSC supports up to ₹5 lakh per transaction and ₹20 lakh/day in the reviewed table. Net Banking MMID transfers are separately capped at ₹10,000. New-payee first-24-hour amounts are category-specific: Global Private/NRI ₹10L, Wealth/Wealth Select ₹5L, Privilege ₹2L, General ₹1L. ICICI publishes monetary restrictions for the first 24 hours after payee addition rather than one universal wait time. iMobile activation separately carries a ₹10,000 first-day transfer limit.
IDFC FIRST Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSInternet Banking minimum Re.1, maximum ₹20 lakh under the current limit sheet, further constrained by individual-beneficiary and overall customer-set limits. Internet Banking minimum ₹2 lakh, maximum ₹20 lakh, further constrained by applicable beneficiary/overall limits.Internet Banking minimum Re.1 and maximum ₹2 lakh per transaction; the overall transfer ceiling is ₹20 lakh or a lower customer-set overall limit. Maximum 5 beneficiary additions in a 24-hour calendar day. New beneficiary: no transfer for 30 minutes; up to ₹2 lakh during the first 24 hours; after 24 hours the individual-beneficiary/₹20 lakh/overall-customer limit applies. The new-beneficiary state is two-stage: 30-minute hard cooling followed by a first-24-hour ₹2 lakh cap. One-time transfer without beneficiary is a separate ₹25,000 path.
IndusInd Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSINDIE supports NEFT within the current ₹10 lakh cumulative daily mobile fund-transfer limit. The reviewed mobile page says method-specific limits can vary; v1.39 does not invent a separate NEFT ceiling where current first-party evidence is not explicit. Minimum ₹2 lakh. IndusNet publishes ₹10 lakh for individual customers and ₹25 lakh for non-individual customers; IndusDirect standard permitted cumulative/per-transaction limit is ₹25 lakh. INDIE remains subject to its separate mobile cumulative limit.INDIE supports instant IMPS within the app's cumulative daily transfer control and applicable IMPS rail limit. The current mobile page says method-specific limits can vary rather than publishing one stable universal bank maximum. IndusMobile FAQ permits up to 5 beneficiary additions/day for Current Accounts and 3/day for Savings Accounts across IndusNet/IndusMobile. The reviewed retail sources do not establish one universal new-beneficiary cooling duration. Current INDIE: first registration/device re-registration sets ₹2 lakh for 24h; limit increase uses OTP + 4h cooling with old limit active. Separate IndusMobile FAQ instead states ₹10,000 for 24h after new-user/device/phone registration; conflict retained.
Kotak Mahindra Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSDigital NEFT is available 24x7 except Kotak's published 11:30 PM–12:30 AM no-initiation window. Existing/customer-set limits apply through 9:30 PM; up to ₹10 lakh is shown for 9:30–11:30 PM, and the bank publishes a maximum permissible ₹50 lakh per transaction from 12:30–7:30 AM, still subject to the overall daily limit. Minimum ₹2 lakh. Kotak lists RTGS 24x7 except 11:30 PM–12:30 AM and a maximum permissible ₹5 crore per transaction between 12:30–7:30 AM; the customer/CRN daily limit can be lower.Instant 24x7 through Net/Mobile. Current default CRN limits apply across IMPS with the customer's overall controls; Kotak's separate beneficiary article states up to ₹5 lakh daily IMPS after its stated first-day beneficiary restriction, so this is kept as source-scoped rather than used to overwrite the newer segment table. Main current limit page: add up to 10 beneficiaries/day for Privy/Wealth/Solitaire/Non-Resident or 5/day for Regular/811; newly added beneficiary caps are ₹3 lakh, ₹50,000 and ₹25,000 by segment, after a 30-minute no-transfer cooling period. A separate current Kotak help article says the limit is ₹25,000 for the first 24 hours after a beneficiary is added or edited. Because this conflicts with the segment-based 30-minute/cap table, both are retained and the live channel screen should control at transfer time.
SBI Bank Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSRBI NEFT has no system-level floor or ceiling and settles in 48 half-hourly batches 24x7x365. SBI applies the customer's digital third-party limit, currently configurable from ₹1 lakh to ₹25 lakh per day across NEFT/RTGS/IMPS/general-category merchants. RBI RTGS is real-time 24x7x365 with a ₹2 lakh minimum and no RBI maximum. SBI's retail digital third-party ceiling remains customer-set up to ₹25 lakh/day, so the bank/channel limit can be lower than the RBI system capacity.SBI's current FAQ states ₹5 lakh per transaction, available 24x7, with cumulative online outward transfers up to ₹25 lakh/day or the customer-set third-party limit, whichever is lower. Quick Transfer without adding a beneficiary is separately capped at ₹50,000/day across RINB/YONO/YONO Lite. Up to eight beneficiaries can be approved per calendar day in the cited IMPS FAQ (four interbank + four intrabank). Beneficiaries approved 6 AM–8 PM activate within one hour; later approvals activate after 6 AM next day. For the first four days after activation of a new beneficiary, SBI caps total transfers to that beneficiary at ₹5 lakh; after cooling, the normal per-transaction and daily controls apply.
YES BANK Transfers — NEFT, RTGS & IMPSAvailable 24x7x365 and settles in RBI batches. YES ONLINE states no minimum and no per-transaction maximum in the bank FAQ; transfer amount remains subject to the lower customer-set or bank-enforced daily transaction limit. Real-time 24x7x365 with ₹2 lakh minimum. The applicable customer/bank daily transaction limit and account/channel controls still constrain the usable amount.Real-time 24x7x365; no minimum in the YES ONLINE FAQ and maximum ₹2 lakh per transaction, up to the lower customer-set or bank-enforced daily limit. YES ONLINE supports beneficiary/payee transfers, but the reviewed current first-party material does not establish one universal new-beneficiary cooling duration across all retail channels, so none is inferred. Customer-set versus bank-enforced daily limits are modeled explicitly. No unsupported beneficiary wait or first-day cap is added merely because other banks use one.
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Decision fields

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01NEFT batching / amount and bank-channel limits
02RTGS ₹2 lakh floor / real-time settlement and bank limits
03IMPS instant settlement / ₹5 lakh system ceiling and bank limits
04Beneficiary activation, cooling and first-use caps
05Internet/mobile/branch charge scope
06Failure, reversal, return and dispute path