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Deposit growth slightly outpaces credit growth at 11.21%: RBI data

Credit growth had been exceeding deposit growth since the fortnight ending March 25, 2022, leading to a widening gap that reached as much as 700 basis points (bps) at its peak

Rupee depreciates to a new intraday low of 84.52 against US dollar

The rupee had appreciated to a high of Rs 84.22 per dollar on Wednesday as the dollar index fell by 0.7 per cent after surging for the majority of the month

Rupee declines on FPI outflows, avoids record low on RBI intervention

The rupee closed at 84.4850 against the U.S. dollar, down from its close of 84.4525 in the previous session

Rupee flat amid month-end dollar bids and likely RBI intervention

Dollar bids from foreign banks and importers weighed on the rupee, a trader at a private bank said. Other Asian currencies were mixed, while the dollar index trimmed losses after falling 0.7%

RBI to delay cutting rates to early 2025 amid inflation concerns: Poll

Twenty-one of 48 common contributors who provided rate forecasts last month and this month pushed their expectation for the first rate cut from December to February or later

Highlights: Term of JPC on the Waqf Amendment Bill extended till end of next budget session

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RBI working to create robust data analytics ecosystem: Dy Guv Swaminathan

RBI is working towards creating a robust data analytics ecosystem to support its supervisory functions, ensuring that the approach remains forward-looking and agile in a rapidly changing world, central bank's Deputy Governor Swaminathan J has said. Addressing 'High-level Policy Conference of Central Banks from the Global South' here last week, he said the supervision of banks and financial institutions is a relatively recent development - dating back around 50 years. However, the concept of overseeing banks is embedded in the very foundations of central banking. From the early days, central banks have fulfilled their role as the lender of last resort, ensuring that financial institutions remained solvent and protected against systemic crises, Swaminathan said. The senior RBI official further said that to build financial resilience, supervision must be proactive, continuous, forward-looking and risk-focused. An effective banking supervision system requires the supervisor to maintai

FACE's ambitious goal: Uniting 75% of fintech players in three years

One of the major focus areas for the SRO-FT includes improving communication among members regarding compliance and regulation

Highlights: Sebi introduces mark-to-market basis valuation for repo transactions by mutual funds

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After RBI strictures, MFIs tighten norms to make lending more responsible

After repeated strictures from the Reserve Bank on the industry's practices, the Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) on Monday announced a slew of changes to make lending to the bottom of the pyramid more "responsible". From January 1, the self-regulatory organisation's members will ensure that a single MFI client's borrowings are limited to three MFIs as against four at present and the total indebtedness of a borrower including MFI and unsecured retail loans is capped at Rs 2 lakh, a statement said. The body's chief executive and director Alok Misra hoped that the sector will become "more resilient" with the new measures. Over the last few months, the RBI has gone public with its concerns on a slew of practices adopted by the MFIs, including usurious high interest rates, multiple lendings to single borrowers and even practices like not crediting loan repayments to the rightful accounts despite being paid by borrowers. On October 21, the RBI also asked four entities including

Forward guidance loses steam in downward cycle: RBI's Deputy Governor Patra

Patra said that under heightened uncertainty, discretion in forward guidance has increasingly gained legitimacy among major central banks

Delegates of 18 nations join RBI conference for Global South central banks

Delegates from 18 countries, including central bank governors, deputy governors and other central bank officials from the Global South, attended a two-day high-level policy conference that concluded on Friday. High-Level Policy Conference of Central Banks from the Global South was organised here as part of the commemoration of the Reserve Bank of India's 90th year since its establishment. In his keynote address, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das highlighted that maintaining overall stability, which includes sustained growth, price stability, and financial stability, is a daunting challenge for the countries of the Global South amidst global spillovers, external sector imbalances, limited fiscal space, elevated debt levels and continuing financial market volatility. Central banks need to work towards more robust, realistic and nimble policy frameworks that use monetary, prudential, fiscal and structural policies synergistically to achieve better societal outcomes, he added. RBI Deputy ..

Monetary policy must reflect uncertainty in decision-making: RBI's Patra

Monetary policy may be 98 per cent talk and only 2 per cent action, but the cost of sending the wrong message can be high, Patra cautioned

Forex reserves see sharpest weekly drop on record, hit over four-month low

The reserves fell by $17.8 billion in the week of Nov. 15 - the most since available data starting 1998 - to $657.89 billion, data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed on Friday

Central Bank of India gets RBI nod for insurance JV with Generali group

Central Bank of India on Friday said it has got approval from the Reserve Bank to enter the insurance business through a joint venture with Generali group under FGIICL and FGILICL. In a filing to stock exchanges, the state-owned bank said the RBI accorded the approval vide a letter dated November 21, 2024. "...we would like to inform that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) vide its letter dated 21st November 2024 has approved the bank's entry in the insurance business through a joint venture with Generali group under FGIICL and FGILICL, subject to continuous compliance of conditions stipulated by it and approval of IRDAI, the sectoral regulator," the filing said. In October, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had cleared the Central Bank of India's proposed acquisition of stakes in Future Generali India Insurance Company Ltd (FGIICL) and Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Ltd (FGILICL). FGIICL provides personal insurance, commercial insurance, social, and rural ...

RBI asks some lenders to reduce speculative positions against rupee

While the RBI has previously stopped banks from adding long positions on the dollar-rupee, they have not asked them to cut positions in recent years

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Macroeconomic stability a joint effort, says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

'In the long run, price stability supports sustained high growth. Price stability is also important because high inflation is disproportionately burdensome on the poor'

Early signs of second-order effects: RBI cannot ignore price pressures

It is worth highlighting that even if the headline or food inflation rate comes down, it will only reduce the pace of price increase and consumers will continue to pay comparatively high prices

India, Maldives ink pact for cross-border transactions in local currencies

The MoU was signed by Shaktikanta Das, governor, RBI, and Ahmed Munawar, governor, Maldives Monetary Authority