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RBI lowers remittance limit, discourage green card dreams

Taking further measures to reduce the burden on the already weakened rupee, RBI reduced the limit for remittances made by individuals to $75,000 from $200,000 per financial year...

August 23, 2013

FDI limit in Asset Reconstruction Companies hiked to 74% – RBI

As per the RBI, the limit on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) has been increased to 74% from 49%, another measure to attract capital inflows to...

August 20, 2013

NBFCs must be under RBI watch: Subbarao

As per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D. Subbarao, banking as well as Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) must be under a unified regulation of the central bank...

August 20, 2013

Sharp rise in Internet related bank frauds: Banking Ombudsman

There was a sharp increase in complaints relating to Internet related bank frauds. The total number of complaints increased marginally from 3,486 in 2011-12 to 3,494 in 2012-13....

August 20, 2013

India's forex reserves dips by $2.99 billion

As per the Reserve Bank of India, the country’s foreign exchange reserves lowered by an immense USD 2.995 billion to USD 277.167 billion. Foreign currency assets which are a major...

August 15, 2013

Can’t opt for high inflation to promote growth: RBI

RBI has clarified that it could not espouse a policy of tolerating higher inflation in order to promote growth because such a stance would not yield the desired...

August 14, 2013

RBI to auction Cash Management Bills (CMBs) to control liquidity

Taking further measures to control the liquidity in order to boost the position of rupee which has been on a decline for past some time, the RBI has...

August 14, 2013

Raghuram Rajan appointed as the next RBI Governor

Raghuram Govind Rajan (50), who is currently the Chief Economic Adviser to the Govt. of India, has been appointed as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...

August 8, 2013

RBI’s cash-tightening measures to stay until Forex market stabilizes: Subbarao

RBI Governor D Subbarao has defended the central bank’s stance on choosing inflation over growth, saying that when the “inflation threshold limit is crossed, it becomes difficult to...

August 4, 2013

RBI lowers GDP growth to 5.7%

The GDP growth for the current fiscal has been fixed lower by the Reserve Bank of India’s professional forecaster’s survey. From the earlier estimation of 6% it has now been...

August 3, 2013

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