Presently, the assets allowed as Level 1 High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLAs) for the purpose of computing the LCR of banks, inter alia, include (a) Government securities in excess of the minimum SLR requirement and, (b) within the mandatory SLR requirement, Government securities to the extent allowed by RBI under (i) Marginal Standing Facility (MSF)…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will, for the time being, leave it to individual banks to decide how best to deal with corporate loan defaulters, and the government will exercise its majority shareholder rights to nudge state run banks to take insolvent companies to bankruptcy courts
With reference to paragraph 13 of the Statement on Development and Regulatory Policies of the Sixth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2018-19 released on February 7, 2019 RBI has vide notification dated 7th February 2019 informed all the Scheduled Commercial Banks including RRB & SFB’s to raise the limit for collateral free agriculture loans to Rs. 1.6 lakh thereby…
As announced in the Monetary Policy Statement of December 5, 2018, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched on 31st January 2019, the Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions (OSDT) vide Notification dated January 31, 2019 for redressal of complaints against System Participants as defined in the said Scheme. Follow the link for the Scheme: The Ombudsman Scheme for Digital Transactions, 2019…
ESAF small finance bank which received the first banking license in Kerala since independence has got RBI approval to operate as scheduled bank.
System-wide gross non-performing assets of banks rose to 11.2 percent or at Rs 10.39 trillion in FY18 from 9.3 percent a year ago, and the share of public sector banks stood at Rs 8.95 trillion, or at 14.6 percent, according to the Reserve Bank data released Friday.
Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday said the central bank’s institutional capabilities are ‘very strong’ and it will do whatever is required for the markets and economy.
The Indian government must heed the RBI’s message on financial stability, IMF’s Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld has said, amidst reports of friction between the central bank and the finance ministry over several issues, including how much capital the apex bank needs.
With the appointment of Shaktikanta Das as the new governor of the RBI, the top position at the central bank returns to a career bureaucrat after a gap of five years when D. Subbarao demitted office in 2013
In the previous fortnight ended October 26, 2018, credit had grown by 14.57% to Rs 90.37 trillion, while deposits rose by 9.01% to Rs 117.71 trillion.