Dollar Swap Facility

India could attract USD 80 to USD 85 billion under the Reserve Bank's concessional swap facility scheme to encourage foreign currency inflows, a report said on Monday. Till July 17, of the total inflows under the scheme, Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) or FCNR (B) deposits accounted for USD 17.406 billion, Overseas Foreign Currency Borrowings (OFCBs) contributed USD 1.97 billion and External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs) amounted to USD 1.342 billion. 'Ecowrap', an SBI research report, said the RBI figure of about USD 20 billion inflows till July 17 came as a "positive reprieve", chiefly with a smart FCNR(B) corpus of USD 17.4 billion. "Overall, we believe FCNR (B) deposits in the range of USD 65-70 billion should be received overall in scheme, and including OFCB and ECB at USD 80-USD 85 billion," it said. It further said that RBI data indicates FCNR(B) deposits worth USD 17.4 billion have been mobilised (till July 17) and the trend suggests that pubic sector banks are major ..

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