Lowering leverage ratio threshold can offer leeway to expand balance sheet of banks

Lowering leverage ratio threshold can offer leeway to expand balance sheet of banks. Lowering Leverage Ratio allows some leeway for banks to take additional exposure (vis-à-vis capital) and expand their balance sheets.

Can RBI policy be the blueprint for world’s central banks?

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.