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  • Posted Date : 06-Jun-2019 , 01:17:39 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The six-member monetary policy committee (MPC), headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, has decided to reduce key repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.75 per cent from 6.0 per cent with immediate effect.  The reverse repo rate under the LAF (liquidity adjustment facility) has been adjusted to 5...

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  • Posted Date : 06-Jun-2019 , 09:14:24 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Reserve Bank of India will announce its second bi-monthly monetary policy for current fiscal year in Mumbai this morning.  The three day meeting of the monetary policy committee (MPC) began on Tuesday amid expectations of a third straight rate cut of 25 basis points.  The key lending...

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  • Posted Date : 05-Jun-2019 , 09:35:16 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The report on 'Benchmarking India's Payment Systems’ which was released on Tuesday mentions that the country is "strong" in areas like having necessary laws and cash in circulation per capita. The report provides a comparative position of the payment system ecosystem in In...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Jun-2019 , 09:49:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said it has barred audit firm S.R.Batliboi & Co. Llp, a member firm of EY, from auditing commercial banks for a year starting 1 April 2019, citing lapses in a statutory audit.  The central bank said the action was initiated on account of the laps...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Jun-2019 , 09:37:58 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India June 3 modified the guidelines on large exposures for banks with a view to reduce concentration of risk and align them with the global norms. The modified 'Large Exposures Framework' (LEF) provides exclusion of entities connected with the sovereign from definitio...

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  • Posted Date : 31-May-2019 , 10:16:53 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) May 30 announced calendar for issuance of Sovereign Gold Bonds for the first half of the current fiscal. The Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) will be issued every month from June 2019 to September 2019, RBI said in a statement. "The Bonds will be sold through Schedu...

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  • Posted Date : 30-May-2019 , 09:45:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The RBI extended minimum holding period requirement for NBFCs to raise funds via loan securitisation to help the sector overcome liquidity shortage. Non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have been permitted to securitise loans of over five-year maturity after holding them for six months on thei...

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  • Posted Date : 30-May-2019 , 09:41:06 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Banks can use Aadhaar for KYC verification with the customer's consent, the Reserve Bank said Wednesday as it updated its list of documents eligible for identification of individuals.  The RBI specifies Know Your Customer (KYC) norms to be followed by banks and other entities regulated b...

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  • Posted Date : 28-May-2019 , 09:07:58 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended timings for customer transactions in the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system to 6 pm from 4:30 pm. The new time window for RTGS will come into effect from June 1. The RTGS is an online fund transfer system, supported by the RBI, which enables tran...

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  • Posted Date : 28-May-2019 , 09:46:25 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Delhi High Court on Monday notices to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and PayTM, seeking their response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which claims that the digital payment company is violating the banking rules by operating a post-paid wallet. A division bench led by Chief Justice Rajend...

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  • Posted Date : 25-May-2019 , 09:46:19 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India Friday fixed the investment limit at Rs 54,606.55 crore for foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) under the voluntary retention route (VRR), which allows to park funds in both government securities as well as corporate debt. VRR for investments by FPIs was introduced on March ...

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  • Posted Date : 24-May-2019 , 10:01:34 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The central board of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)  approved creating a specialized supervisory and regulatory structure for commercial banks, urban cooperative banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs). The decision is based on the recommendations of an internal committee under the cu...

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  • Posted Date : 21-May-2019 , 10:03:16 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    To deal with the issue of banks diverging from the prescribed asset classification norm and consequent under-provisioning, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has kickstarted the process of holding structured meetings with their statutory central auditors (SCAs) at the end of every quarter.   T...

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  • Posted Date : 17-May-2019 , 10:05:58 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Reserve Bank of India said on Thursday that shadow banks also known as non-banking finance companies (NBFC) with asset size of more than Rs 5,000 crore should appoint a chief risk officer (CRO) in a move to tighten regulation after a series of defaults at top lender Infrastructure Leasing & Fina...

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  • Posted Date : 11-May-2019 , 09:09:54 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Banks need to expand their global banking relationship and shift towards globally accepted trade finance instruments instead of indigenous instruments (such as letter of undertaking/ letter of credit), according to a Reserve Bank of India paper. This, however, may push up costs, the paper added. ...

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  • Posted Date : 06-May-2019 , 10:10:52 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is understood to be weighing a plan to ‘incentivise’ lenders to take errant borrowers to bankruptcy court.  It’s part of the regulatory countermove that RBI is working on to overcome hurdles in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling. A mon...

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  • Posted Date : 29-Apr-2019 , 07:53:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    In a move to tackle fund diversion, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed sterner rules on opening and running of current accounts of corporate borrowers.  Current accounts, according to a draft circular shared by the regulator with the banking industry, can “only be opened&rdqu...

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  • Posted Date : 27-Apr-2019 , 09:15:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Supreme Court on Friday reprimanded the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for refusing to disclose information pertaining to the annual inspection report on banks under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, and warned that any further attempts by the banking sector regulator to hold back such informatio...

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  • Posted Date : 24-Apr-2019 , 09:40:54 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The RBI is likely to adopt a more accommodative approach towards resolution of stressed assets when it issues a revised circular, replacing the controversial February 12 circular quashed by the Supreme Court.  Sources said the major contention in the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) controv...

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  • Posted Date : 21-Apr-2019 , 07:19:23 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    It has been reported in certain sections of the media that commercial banks would have a 5 day week in terms of RBI instructions. It is clarified that this information is not factually correct. RBI has not issued any such directions. Yogesh Dayal Chief General Manager Press Release: 2018-2...

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  • Posted Date : 13-Apr-2019 , 09:44:52 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India said reinsurance brokers have been permitted to open non-interest bearing foreign currency accounts with banks for undertaking transactions. Earlier, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) had issued notification in this regard. Follo...

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  • Posted Date : 09-Apr-2019 , 09:14:07 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Reserve Bank of India(RBI) has come out with guidelines for banks to set up new currency chests, which include minimum area of 1,500 square feet for strong room.  The RBI said that the new chests should have a processing capacity of 6.6 lakh pieces of banknotes per day. It added that for tho...

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  • Posted Date : 05-Apr-2019 , 08:04:52 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    With the Supreme Court striking down the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI’s) February 12, 2018, circular, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday that the central bank would shortly come up with a revised circular for restructuring stressed assets. Das said the apex court's order had ...

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  • Posted Date : 04-Apr-2019 , 02:46:41 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday cut the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 percent in the first bi-monthly monetary policy meet of the financial year (FY) 2019-20. It was the first back-to-back rate cut by the central bank since the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was formed in late 2016....

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  • Posted Date : 02-Apr-2019 , 09:33:45 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    Reserve Bank of India has made life a little bit easier for banks by tweaking the bad loan divergence rule. Banks’ disclosure of divergence practice mandated by RBI aims at improving transparency in asset classification and preventing under-reporting of bad loans. The central bank has on Monda...

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  • Posted Date : 01-Apr-2019 , 08:12:16 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    New guidelines on bank exposure to large borrowers take effect on 1 April, even as the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) has made a last-ditch attempt to defer the deadline. The new guidelines cap a bank’s exposure to a group of connected companies at 25% of its core capital, and to an ...

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  • Posted Date : 31-Mar-2019 , 09:25:04 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    All commercial and co-operative banking institutions will remain closed on Monday i.e. April 1 on account of annual closing of accounts, the Reserve Bank of India said. Bank branches, however, will be open on Sunday to facilitate government receipt and payment transactions. The central bank, in a...

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  • Posted Date : 27-Mar-2019 , 08:53:38 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Supreme Court Tuesday took strong note of non-disclosure of the annual inspection report of banks by the RBI under the Right to Information Act. A bench comprising justices L N Rao and M R Shah said it may initiate contempt proceedings against the Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) for not disclosin...

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  • Posted Date : 26-Mar-2019 , 07:07:09 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank of India has slapped a penalty of Rs 2 crore on Punjab National Bank for non-compliance of regulatory directions with regard to SWIFT operations.  SWIFT is a global messaging software used for sharing information on inter-bank transactions by financial entities.  In ...

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  • Posted Date : 23-Mar-2019 , 10:22:46 am | Posted By CASANSAAR

    The Reserve Bank on Friday again deferred the implementation of the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind AS) by banks as the requisite legislative amendments are still under consideration. Earlier in April 2018, the central bank had postponed the implementation of the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind...

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