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RBI lowers repo rate to 7.25 per cent

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points from 7.5 per cent to 7.25 per...

June 3, 2015

Meena Hemchandra appointed as Executive Director of RBI

Meena Hemchandra was appointed as the Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). With this appointment she will be in charge of RBI’s department of banking supervision,...

June 2, 2015

Payment Banks

About 40%-50% of India’s 1.25 billion population is eligible to open a bank account, but is still unbanked . In the Union Budget 2014-2015, the finance minister Arun...

April 26, 2015

Non-Operative Financial Holding Company

In February 2013, RBI had issued final guidelines to apply for new banking licenses in the private sector. Under these guidelines, RBI said that the entities or groups...

April 24, 2015

Public Debt Management Agency

Public Debt Management Agency has been proposed to be set up by the Finance Minister in his budget 2015-16 speech. This separation of debt management from monetary policy...

March 29, 2015

Trade Receivables Discounting System

Trade Receivables Discounting System or TReDS is a welcome step by RBI to secure finances for micro, small and medium enterprises. It has been set up under the...

March 29, 2015

RBI signs $400 million currency swap pact with Sri Lanka

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed a US $400 million currency swap agreement with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. The currency swap agreement will allow...

March 25, 2015

Money Supply and Monetary Aggregates

All the money held with public, RBI as well as government is called Total Stock of Money. Money Supply is that part of this Total Stock of Money...

March 24, 2015

Money Market Reforms in India

Reserve Bank of India is the biggest regulator of the Indian markets. It controls the monetary policy of India. Its control is however limited to the organised part...

March 24, 2015

Certificate of Deposit

Certificate of Deposit (CD) refers to a money market instrument, which is negotiable and equivalent to a promissory note. It is either issued in demat form or in...

March 23, 2015

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