Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Who is Krishnamurthy Subramanian, India's newest Chief Economic Advisor

Subramanian will be taking over from Arvind Subramanian who stepped down from his post in June 2018.

Dec 7, 2018

Nifty, Sensex echo weakness in Asia; domestic investors await state election results

Asian shares fell as a relief rally petered out amid rising doubts over whether China and the United States will be able to resolve trade differences. An inverted U.S. yield curve also raised concerns about a possible recession.

Dec 4, 2018

WhatsApp seeks RBI nod for payment banks for its 200 million users in India

The development comes amid WhatsApp coming under heavy fire from the government over the spread of fake messages on its platforms.

Dec 3, 2018

lL&FS crisis spill over, employees detained in Ethiopia by unpaid local staff

The letter highlighted the inability of the IL&FS management to send funds due to the restriction imposed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Nov 30, 2018

Demonetisation continues to haunt India as notes printed in 2016 becomes unusable

The scale of the problem is so huge that apart from the Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes, even the newer Rs 10 notes, which were issued this year have also started to become 'unusable'.

Nov 30, 2018

RBI stricture on promoter share dilution worries investors ahead of December deadline

The share prices of Bandhan Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank have tanked substantially following the RBI directives.

Nov 28, 2018

Major relief for NBFCs and small business as RBI eases hedging norms

In a circular issued by the central bank, for ECBs which have a maturity period between three-five years, the mandatory hedging requirement has come down to 70%, instead of the earlier level of 100%.

Nov 28, 2018

RBI governor Urjit Patel appears before parliamentary panel to brief on demonetisation

The RBI Governor appeared before the panel days after the central bank's face-off with the finance ministry over issues ranging from appropriate size of reserves to be maintained by RBI to easing of lending norms for small and medium enterprises.

Nov 27, 2018

Bank credit growth highest in five years; does that negate lurking credit crunch fears?

The growth registered by the banks is really encouraging with the fact that RBI has put 11 public sector banks under the prompt corrective action (PCA) framework.

Nov 23, 2018

CIC asks PMO, RBI to disclose wilful defaulters' list, Raghuram Rajan's letter on bad loans

The commission had earlier issued a show cause notice to RBI Governor Urijit Patel for "dishonouring" a Supreme Court judgment and CIC directive on disclosure of the list of wilful defaulters.

Nov 19, 2018

Oil prices, foreign fund flows to set course of equity indices

"Investors will continue to watch the movement of rupee, crude oil prices and foreign fund flows," said SMC Investments & Advisors Chairman and Managing Director D.K. Aggarwal.

Nov 18, 2018

PM Modi stacks RBI board with allies to turn heat up on governor Urijit Patel

Now stacked with government nominees who can be counted on to support the administration, the board is being transformed from having a passive advisory role into a body that can exert pressure for policy change.

Nov 18, 2018

Information czar's retirement clouds Sebi's prospects in tussle with RBI

Central information commissioner's retirement on November 20 has hit Sebi's prospects of getting bank defaulters' data from RBI in the ongoing tussle.

Nov 16, 2018

Visa, Mastercard and American Express maybe taxed on India income

Presently, these payments companies are not taxed as per the Indian laws since the legislation says that only the foreign companies having 'permanent establishment' in the country would be liable to pay tax.

Nov 12, 2018

What was Modi Govt's 'tearing hurry to fix' RBI capital framework?, asks Chidambaram

In a series of tweets, the senior Congress leader slammed the government for allegedly seeking funds from the RBI despite claiming that its (Centre) fiscal math was correct.

Nov 11, 2018

BJP govt greedy, plans to take away RBI reserves, says P Chidambaram

The former Union Finance Minister says that the Modi government needs to understand the roles and functions of the central bank.

Nov 10, 2018

NBFC cash shortage hits real estate sector amid IL&FS episode

The scale of the problem is so humungous that even the sanctioned home loans are not being disbursed.

Nov 9, 2018

Demonetisation spurred Indian economy's digitisation but issues remain

Whatever the avowed objectives of the controversial demonetization, it did help the Digital India initiative. However, the weak internet infrastructure has affected the government efforts to bridge the digital divide.

Nov 9, 2018

Centre demands one third of RBI reserve, RBI says no

The issue is related to the Centre seeking transfer of Rs.3.6 lakh crore that is more than a third of the total Rs.9.59 lakh crore reserves of RBI.

Nov 6, 2018

Reserve Bank of India bought 37% of gold reserves in Q3 of 2018: WCD report

RBI has bought 21 tonnes of gold between January to September, with the highest purchase in the Q3. Currently, the total gold reserves with RBI is 566 tonnes.

Nov 5, 2018