Role of RBI as a Banker to Government explained
Reserve Bank of India is the banker to Central Government as well as State governments. In terms of Section 20 and section 21 of the RBI Act 1934, RBI has the obligation to undertake the receipts and payments of the Central Government departments and to carry out the exchange, remittance and other banking operations, including…
Read article Franklin fallout: RBI Announces ₹ 50,000 crore Special Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds (SLF-MF)
Today (April 27, 2020) Reserve Bank of India announced ₹50,000 crores of special liquidity facility for mutual funds. This was in view of liquidity constraints faced by the Mutual Funds intensified in the wake of large redemptions and high exposure to low-rated illiquid debt securities. The move follows in a bid to support mutual funds…
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Now you get ‘Electronic Cards’ for your Overdraft Accounts
On Thursday (April 23, 2020) Reserve Bank of India permitted all scheduled commercial banks to issue electronic cards to natural persons having Overdraft Accounts. The cards will be issued to accounts in the nature of personal loan without any specific end-use restrictions. Hitherto, banks have been permitted to issue debit cards to customers having Saving…
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Repo operations: What is TRTRO?
TLTRO is acronym to Targeted Long Term Repo Operation (TLTRO). The scheme was introduced by Reserve bank of India as a tool to enhance the liquidity to sectors and entities experiencing liquidity constraints and/or hindrances to market access in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. For a second time on April 17, 2020, RBI has…
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Interest subvention on short term crop loan: RBI extends the time limit
RBI today (April 21, 2020) announced that “to ensure that farmers do not have to pay penal interest and at the same time continue getting the benefits of interest subvention scheme, Government has decided to continue the availability of 2% IS and 3% PRI to farmers for the extended period of repayment up to 31.05.2020…
Asset Classification and Provisioning under COVID19 Regulatory Package
On Friday (April 17), the Reserve Bank of India announced freezing of classification of non-performing assets for three months starting March 1, in view of the widespread impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent nationwide lockdown. “In respect of all accounts for which lending institutions decide to grant moratorium and which were standard as…
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