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RBI defines term ‘control’, notifies FDI guidelines

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has notified Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) guidelines pending for past four years as Press notes 2 and 3 of the Department of Industrial...

July 7, 2013

Fact Box: White Label ATMs

RBI gives nod to Muthoot Finance to set up White Label ATMs Indian gold loan company Muthoot Finance Ltd has obtained the RBI’s in-principle approval to set up...

June 29, 2013

Rupee hits record low against dollar, plunges below 60 mark

The Indian rupee today ranked by a massive 105 points to close at a historic low of 60.71 against the dollar. The Indian Rupee declined below the 60 mark breaking the...

June 29, 2013

RBI auctions Inflation Indexed Bonds

The government has announced the sale of 1.44% ‘Inflation-Indexed government stock 2023’ for a notified amount of Rs.1,000 crore through price-based auction on June 25, 2013. The results of the...

June 26, 2013

RBI extends deadline for banks to implement card security features

The RBI has provided the banks more time for introduction of additional security features for payment through debit and credit cards as banks and related entities had yet...

June 26, 2013

RBI relaxed ECB norms for low cost housing projects

The RBI has eased the External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) norms for affordable housing projects by withdrawing the minimum capital requirement, and lowering total experience to three years, while...

June 26, 2013

RBI leaves key policy rate unchanged

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has left the key policy rate, the repo rate, untouched at 7.25% in its June mid-quarter monetary policy. Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR),...

June 19, 2013

Government raises foreign investment limit in G-secs by $5 billion

In a move that would encourage foreign portfolio investment in Indo, the Government hiked the investment limit for foreign portfolio investors in government bonds by $5 billion to...

June 15, 2013

Banks to audit documents of credits of Rs 5 Crore and above periodically: RBI

As per the directions made by RBI, Banks will have to do periodical audits and re-verification of the documents of all credits of and above Rs 5 crore,...

June 11, 2013

RBI will intervene in forex market to prevent instability

RBI has said that it doesn’t target any exchange rate but it will intervene in the Forex market to only to curb volatility and prevent disruption of macroeconomic...

June 11, 2013

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