Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today (April 4, 2019)announced its first Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Rates for 2019-20 in Mumbai. The Monitory Policy Committee (MPC) of Reserve Bank of India On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation at its meeting decided to reduce the policy repo rate under the…
A bank’s exposures to its counterparties may result in a concentration of its assets to a single counterparty or a group of connected counterparties. To address this concentration risk RBI has fixed limits on bank exposures to an individual business concern and to business concerns of a group. As per current guidelines of RBI a…
The Reserve Bank of India has mandated the banks to fix limits on their exposure to specific industry or sectors and has prescribed regulatory limits on banks’ exposure to single and group borrowers in India. This measure of RBI is aimed at better risk management and avoidance of credit risks. In addition to credit exposure…
The entire investment portfolio of the banks (including SLR securities and non-SLR securities) are classified under three categories viz. ‘Held to Maturity’, ‘Available for Sale’ and ‘Held for Trading’. Held-to-maturity securities are debt security investments which the holder has the intention and ability to hold them until specific date of maturity. The investments classified under…
In terms of Section 20 of the RBI Act 1934, RBI has the responsibility to undertake the receipts and payments of the Central Government and to carry out the exchange, remittance and other banking operations, including the management of the public debt of the Union. In addition to that RBI has the right to transact…
Easy money is known as cheap money, easy monetary policy and expansionary monetary policy. An easy money policy is a monetary policy that increases the money supply usually by lowering interest rates. The main purpose of Easy Money policy is to facilitate increase in investment thereby raising gross domestic product. Easy Money occurs when a…
In simple words the bank capital is the difference between a bank’s assets and liabilities. However, Banking regulators all over the word have their own definition of regulatory capital of banks in closer alignment with Basel Framework. The core banking regulatory framework across the banking sector consists of international standards enacted by the Basel Committee…
Monetary aggregates are broad categories of money that measure the money supply such as cash and demand deposits or bank credits which have an impact on the aggregate economic activity. Appraising monetary aggregates can generate a lot of information about the financial stability and overall health of a country. For example, if large amount of…
In banking and finance parlance, liquidity refers to the ability to convert one asset into another or to use assets to meet obligations. Liquidity indicates the degree to which an asset or security can be quickly bought or sold in the market without affecting the asset’s price. Market liquidity refers to stock market where the…