National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was initially promoted by Reserve Bank of India in 1982 under National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development Act 1981. By its establishment NABARD substituted Agricultural Credit Department (ACD) and Rural Planning and Credit Cell (RPCC) of Reserve Bank of India, and Agricultural Refinance and Development Corporation…
Debentures are issued by corporates including NBFCs to raise resources for their upcoming expenses or their business expansions. In other words, debentures are unsecured loans taken by companies from the public (other than accepting deposits) by issuing instruments of debt, acknowledging money lent, and guaranteeing repayment with interest. The investors subscribe to debentures only based…
National Housing Bank (NHB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), was set up on 9 July 1988 under the National Housing Bank Act 1987.The bank was set up with an object of supporting housing finance to all segments of the population with special focus on housing for low and moderate income…
Every commercial bank in India borrow funds from other banks to cover a sudden shortfall in cash on a particular day in the following circumstances. to tide down the temporary requirements of funds due to liquid asset-liability mismatch to meet the mandatory requirement of CRR&SLR or to meet the demand for funds arising out of…
The money market instrument is a marketplace for trading in short-term debt investments considered low-risk investments with high safety. It is primarily used by governments and corporations to keep their cash flow steady, and for investors to make a modest profit. The money market ensures a balance between the demand for short-term funds and their…
Most of you are aware of repurchase options (REPOS) a temporary Liquidity Adjustment Facility (Temporary need by RBI to Indian banks. Repo transactions, transactions also taking place between RBI and primary dealers, banks to banks, banks to other counterparties, primary dealers to primary dealers and primary dealers to other counterparties. In the money market, internationally…
Certificate of Deposit (CD) is a money market negotiable instrument equivalent to a usance promissory note. Banks and eligible financial institution issue certificate of deposits (CDs) to raise short-term resources within the umbrella limits fixed by the Reserve Bank. Scheduled banks can issue CDs for a period of 7 days to one a year whereas…
Besides overnight call money and repo market, there is another market called collateralized borrowing and lending obligation (CBLO). The CBLO is a tradable repo, available in the form of discounted instrument in electronic book entry form. There are some difference in repo trading and CBLO trading. In repo trading, it is obligatory on the part…
[This article explains the meaning of yield based and price based auction with the illustrations of yield based auction and auction Sale (Re-issue) of Government Securities] The Government securities are issued by way of auctions conducted by the RBI on the electronic platform called the NDS – Auction platform. The banks, Insurance Companies, Mutual Funds,…
In its press release today RBI notified that all branches of State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (SBBJ), State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH), State Bank of Mysore (SBM), State Bank of Patiala (SBP) and State Bank of Travancore (SBT) will function as branches of State Bank of India from April 1, 2017. The order dated…