India is becoming the gold standard for monetary policy in Asia, if not the world. Reserve Bank of India has been very consistent in its message: Borrowing costs need to come down to juice growth. Passive inflation and the central bank’s full tank of gas make the case to cut even stronger.
– RBI cuts repo rate for 3rd time in a row by 25 bps to 5.75%. The repo rate, which now stands at 5.75 per cent, is the lowest since July 2010. – RBI delivers another rate cut, shifts policy stance to ‘accommodative’. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday the 6th June 2019,…
RBI vide Notification dated 29th May 2019 made amendments to the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005. An Ordinance, “Aadhaar and other Laws (amendment) Ordinance, 2019”, has been notified by the Government amending, inter alia, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. Important changes carried out in the Master Direction in accordance with…
RBI has revised the RTGS time window with effect from June 01, 2019 as under: Sr. No. Event Time 1. Open for Business 08:00 hours 2. Customer transactions (Initial Cut-off) 18:00 hours 3. Inter-bank transactions (Final Cut-off) 19:45 hours 4. IDL Reversal 19:45 hours – 20:00 hours 5. End of Day 20:00 hours 3. The…
Small finance banks’ capital rules on RBI radar again. The review of the norms may immediately benefit Equitas Small Finance Bank and Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, which are desperately trying to abide by the listing rule by way of share-transfer schemes.
RBI proposes new, stringent liquidity norms for NBFC.
To improve risk-management practices, RBI tells NBFCs to post ‘chief risk officer’
On May 1 We have posted an article “RBI cracks the whip on auditors, wants them to keep eye on five key areas” wherein its was mentioned that The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked bank auditors to keep a close watch on five key parameters and is to reassign its senior supervisory authority…
With reference to First Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement on Development and Regulatory Policies RBI has prescribed eligibility criteria of housing loans for classification under priority sector for RRB’s & Small Finance Banks as under: In terms of the Master Direction for RRBs, loans to individuals up to ₹ 20 lakh for purchase/construction of a dwelling unit…
Banks need to expand their global banking relationship and shift towards globally accepted trade finance instruments instead of indigenous instruments (such as letter of undertaking/ letter of credit), according to a Reserve Bank of India paper.