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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday raised the benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 5.40 per cent to tame inflation. With the latest hike, the repo rate or the short term lending rate at which banks borrow has crossed the pre-pandemic level of 5.15 per cent. This is the third […]
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New Delhi: The three-day Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee meeting commenced on Wednesday and it is highly likely the six-member panel will go for another interest rate hike to curb rising domestic inflation. In line with the global trend of monetary policy tightening to cool off inflation, the RBI has so far hiked […]
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Hyderabad: While digital payments rule the roost, issuing cheques, particularly for high-value transactions, is still an important aspect of the banking system. There have been some cases of amounts getting tampered and signatures being forged. But now, an extra level of security has been added — the positive pay confirmation. Under positive pay confirmation, the […]
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New Delhi: After touching an all-time low and psychologically crucial level of 80 per US dollar last week, the Indian currency rupee traded largely steady on Monday. At the time of writing this report, the rupee traded at 79.82, data showed. An elevated risk appetite in the domestic financial markets and softening of crude oil […]
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By Dr K Srinivasa Rao Despite the ongoing twin crisis – lingering Covid-19 and war between Russia and Ukraine, banks have gained strength in the last couple of years. The RBI’s Financial Stability Report-June 2022 reflects improved asset quality and capital adequacy ratio (CAR). The asset quality of banks continued to improve steadily with the […]
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Hyderabad: In what appears to be a politically-motivated move to stall Telangana’s development, the union Finance Ministry has reduced the State’s open market borrowing limit by Rs 19,000 crore for this fiscal. Telangana will be able to raise only Rs 34,970 crore in 2022-23 as against the Rs 53,970 crore Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management […]
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By B Yerram Raju I saw the film RRR and wondered how I should title this article on Asset Quality Review (AQR) undertaken by Raghuram Rajan Reforms (RRR) in the banking sector during his regime as Governor. The Economic Survey 2020-21 while criticising the AQR’s inability to prevent the evergreening of loans in the name […]
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Hyderabad: After almost a decade, the real estate sector was able to stabilise its property prices in 2019 with home loan rates going down and the purchasing power of buyers growing. However, in the last two quarters, the affordability index, which tracks EMI to income ratio, has gone down marginally all thanks to the recent […]
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By B Yerram Raju “Money begets money,” says Geoffrey Crowther. Absolutely true — whether it is with individuals, institutions, or nations. Why should nations borrow? One should go back to the post-world war economy. People lost all their wealth and assets in the war. To provide money in people’s hands, Keynes propounded ‘dig holes and […]
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Hyderabad: It’s official now! Telangana’s repeated contention that it was a pure political play on the part of the BJP government at the Centre in not allowing the State to raise open market borrowings (OMBs) and that it was not based on any fiscal issue has been virtually acknowledged by the country’s Central bank. By […]
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Hyderabad: Riding on goals from Shaun Campbell in the 26th minute and Anuj in the 68th minute, RBI defeated OK Sporting FC 2-1 in the Telangana Football Association C division football league at the Gymkhana on Thursday. For the losing outfit, Md Afeef scored a goal in the 18th minute to reduce the margin. Result: […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India will soon come out with regulatory architecture for digital lending platforms, many of which are unauthorised and illegal, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday. There have been increasing cases of alleged suicides of borrowers due to harassment by a few of the operators of digital lending apps. “I think […]
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Mumbai: Home, auto and other loan EMIs will rise after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday raised the key interest rate by 50 basis points (bps), the second increase in five weeks, to rein in a rise in prices that was seen continuing to hurt consumers in the near term. The increase in […]
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Mumbai: Indian stock market’s benchmark Sensex opened 205 points down on Wednesday as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.9 per cent. The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex fell 205.27 points or 0.37 per cent to close at 54,902.07 points at 10:30 am. The broader […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday retained its growth projection at 7.2 per cent for the current fiscal on the back of improvement in urban demand and gradual recovery in rural India. Unveiling the third monetary policy for the current fiscal, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the Indian economy remained resilient, and the […]
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Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday raised the interest rate by 50 basis points to a two-year high of 4.9 per cent as it doubled down to tame inflation that has surged in the last couple of months. The rate hike comes on the back of a 40 bps increase effected by RBI […]
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By Seela Subba Rao Prior to 2003, banks were not allowed to take up ‘insurance’ as a permissible form of business. Subsequently, they were permitted to undertake referral activities such as insurance business. Consequent to the announcement by the then Finance Minister in the Budget speech 2013-14 to permit banks as insurance brokers, the Reserve […]
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New Delhi: The central bank Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cleared the air by saying that it has no proposal to bring about changes to the existing currency and bank notes by replacing the face of Mahatma Gandhi with that of others. “There are reports in certain sections of the media that the Reserve Bank […]
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Mumbai: With inflation showing no signs of abatement, the Reserve Bank is likely to increase the benchmark lending rate in quick succession in its forthcoming monetary policy review on Wednesday, a hint for which has already been given by Governor Shaktikanta Das, opined experts. There are speculations that the central bank may go for at […]
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New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said that it is proposing to adopt a graded approach to the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in conformity with the objectives of monetary policy, financial stability and efficient operations of currency and payment systems. “The Reserve Bank proposes to adopt a graded […]
