Liquidity and bank lending will need careful management
Economists expect the central bank to use OMO sales, sell-buy swaps and other liquidity-management tools to gradually absorb the durable surplus
Surplus liquidity has surged after RBI's special forex swap scheme, prompting the central bank to use bond sales to pull cash out of the banking system and realign overnight rates with its policy rate
Banks can hold fraud-linked amounts immediately; customers get 20 days to explain transactions
Order of preference in which two names are submitted to RBI is critical
RBI has cleared the decks for the listing of Tata Sons
The central bank on Sep 11, 2026, rejected Tata Sons' application for exemption from the core investment company category, making a public listing mandatory amid leadership turbulence at the group
RBI's directive for an immediate listing marks a turning point in a dispute spanning Tata Sons' private status, upper-layer NBFC classification and failed deregistration bid
Gold reserves, by contrast, declined by $2.59 billion to $113.81 billion during the week as gold prices fell 0.56 per cent to $4,429 an ounce
10-year bond yield hits 7% after three months
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra says nearly half of the $127.2 billion in FCNR(B) deposits mobilised under the concessional swap facility have a five-year tenure
The move comes after surplus cash with banks rose to a record high of around 11 trillion rupees following massive inflows under the central bank's recent capital-raising windows.
Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will reassess growth and inflation dynamics at its meeting next month amid rising prices of crude oil due to the ongoing West Asia crisis, Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Friday. In an interview to CNBC-TV18, the governor also said nearly 50 per cent of the Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank), or FCNR(B) deposits, mobilised under the forex swap facility is for 5-year tenor. The inflows under the FCNR (B) deposits totalled USD 127.22 billion in the recently concluded RBI swap facility. On inflation, Malhotra said the rising crude oil prices will have an impact but it will depend on how much is passed through, he said. "Crude has gone up. July was for the Indian basket an average of 82 billion dollars. August it has gone up to 90 billion dollars and so that will certainly have some impact, but it will depend again on the pass-through," Malhotra said in the interview. According to him, the government has to a great degree absorbed and .
RBI Deputy Governor Shirish Chandra Murmu says regulation should address risks appropriately while allowing responsible innovation and experimentation to scale
The comments come as the RBI deals with the fallout from record foreign-exchange inflows
Central bank will conduct a 26-day VRRR auction on Friday to absorb surplus banking-system liquidity; funds placed in the auction will be reversed on October 7
CS Setty said banks would deploy the liquidity gradually, while also calling for lower upfront costs to enable large-scale adoption of agentic AI in Indian banking
India must now choose among currency appreciation, inflation, bank losses, indirect public exposure and an expensive sterilisation programme
RBI asks NBFCs to focus on asset quality as agriculture and commercial real estate show higher stress
We are building digital public infrastructure for next-generation financial services, said RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra