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Liquidity Adjustment Facility
Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to extend liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) to Regional Rural Banks (RRB) to make liquidity management more efficient. The LAF was introduced in RBI in 1998 based on the recommendations of Narasimham Committee on Banking Sector Reforms. It is a monetary policy tool that enables banks to ..
Liquidity Adjustment Facility
Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to extend liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) to Regional Rural Banks (RRB) to make liquidity management more efficient. The LAF was introduced in RBI in 1998 based on the recommendations of Narasimham Committee on Banking Sector Reforms. It is a monetary policy tool that enables banks to ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: Liquidity adjustment facility • Narasimham Committee on Banking Sector Reforms • Repo Rate • Reserve Bank of India (RBI) • Reverse Repo Rate
RBI to buy and sell Government Securities worth Rs 10,000 crores
On December 23, 2019, the Reserve Bank of India will buy and sell government securities of Rs 10,000 crores under a special Open Market Operation. Such moves are implemented by the federal bank in order to bring down the interest rates of long-term securities. This time RBI has named its move as “Operation Twist”. There ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: Federal Bank • Government Securities • liquidity • Liquidity adjustment facility • Liquidity Infusion Facility • RBI
RBI cuts policy repo rate in its 3rd bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for FY 20
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently announcement its 3rd bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for FY 20 (2019-20). In it, RBI reduced the policy repo rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) by 35 basis points (bps) from 5.75% to 5.40% with immediate effect. Consequently, the reverse repo ..
Topics: Bank of England • Bank rate • Economy • Finance • Finance in India • Interest Rates • Liquidity adjustment facility • Monetary Policy • Money • Official bank rate • Repurchase agreement • Reserve Bank of India
RBI Cuts Repo Rate
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its monetary policy review undertaken by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has made the following decisions: RBI cuts repo rate to 5.4% from the current 5.75%. Reverse repo rate under liquidity adjustment facility stands revised to 5.15%. Marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the bank rate reduced to 6%. ..
Topics: Bank of England • Bank rate • Economy • Finance • Finance in India • Inflation • Interest Rates • Liquidity adjustment facility • Monetary Policy • Monetary Policy Commitee • Monetary Policy Committee • Monetary Policy review • Money • Reduction in Interest Rates • Reserve Bank of India
RBI Monetary Policy Review
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the second bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2019-20. The key decisions reflected in the Monetary Policy statement are: Repo rate reduced to 5.75 per cent from the current 6per cent. Similarly, the reverse repo rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) stands adjusted to 5.5% and the ..
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: Cash Reserve Ratio • CRR • LAF • Liquidity adjustment facility • Monetary Policy Committee • Neutral Monetary Policy • RBI • Repo Rate • Reserve Bank of India • Reverse Repo Rate • Tight Monetary Policy