December 5, 2018: The Monitory Policy Committee (MPC) of Reserve Bank of India in its fifth Bi-Monthly Statement for 2018-19, announced today(December 5,2018) keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.5 per cent. Consequently, the reverse repo rate under the LAF remains at 6.25 per cent, and the marginal…
Basket of currencies or currency basket means a currency in the basket (group) can be freely convertible to another currency of the basket without the special approval from the Central Bank of that country. The resulting exchange rate can be fixed or variable according to the demand for that currency in the international market.Majority of…
You may be holding a few currency notes which have become dirty due to normal wear and tear or two piece note pasted together wherein both the pieces presented belong to the same note and form the entire note with no essential feature missing. These notes are called as ‘soiled notes’ as per RBI definition.…
The Central Government has made amendments to the Reserve Bank of India (Note Refund) Rules, 2009. The amended rules called “the Reserve Bank of India (Note Refund) Amendment Rules, 2018” are effective from Gazette notification date September 6, 2018. The amendment to rules would help the public to exchange mutilated notes in Mahatma Gandhi (New)…
Selective credit control means control over bank finance against the security of sensitive commodities. In exercise of powers conferred by Section 21 & 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the Reserve Bank of India issues directives to commercial banks from time to time, stipulating specific restrictions on bank advances against specified sensitive commodities. The…
In a rejoinder to widely spread Social media rumours about RBI’s declaration of ₹ 10 coins as invalid, the central bank vide its press release no.RBI/2016-2017/1257 dated Nov 20, 2016, advised members of the public not to give credence to such ill-informed notions as well as ignore them and continue to accept these coins as…
Repo rate is the rate at which the RBI lends shotterm money to the banks against the security of all SLR-eligible transferable Government of India- dated Securities, Treasury Bills and State Development Loans (SDL). The repo auction framework is a new regime for liquidity management to keep overnight rates close to the repo rate. Under…
Edited on 20.10.2022 Every commercial bank in India has to maintain reserves under statutory provisioning norms. The change in SLR and CRR either increases or decreases the money supply to commercial banks. This, in turn, affects the lendable resources of banks. Therefore ups and downs of the money supply to the market caused due to…
Bank rate is actually the rate of interest at which Reserve Bank of India is lending to commercial banks. Reserve Bank of India is prepared to buy or re-discount bills of exchange or other eligible commercial paper from commercial banks. Bank rate is governed by Section 49 of Reserve Bank of India Act 1934.The effect of…
The basic functions of RBI (Reserve Bank of India) are “to regulate the issue of Bank Notes and keeping of reserves to secure monetary stability in India and generally to operate the currency and credit system of the country to its advantage.”In addition, to control the supply of portable money circulation, Reserve Bank of India…