Category: RBI–Banks

Corporate leaders on Tuesday said the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) move to bar all corporate debt-recast programmes and send them to the National Company

The RBI’s new debt resolution framework could result in an increase in non-performing assets of banks, and consequently, in a heavier provisioning burden. The reason:

The sizeable and growing problem of non-performing assets in the banking books is a national concern. Policy makers, banking regulators and the banking system have

If the financial performance of India’s largest lender is anything to go by, an end to the severe bad loans crisis may be much farther

The Reserve Bank will soon have greater flexibility in terms of managing its liquidity operations with the addition of one more tool ‘Standing Deposit Facility

The Reserve Bank of India today came out with a revised framework for expeditious resolution of bad loans, harmonising the existing guidelines with the norms

Last Friday, the State Bank of India, the country’s largest bank, reported its first quarterly loss in 17 years, shocking analysts who were busy predicting

In a Credit Policy that came in the backdrop of a gathering perfect storm — mini-mayhem in global asset markets, a widely-panned Budget, and a

The Reserve Bank of India governor Urjit Patel on Saturday defended maintaining tight monetary policy even when retail inflation remained low. Addressing reporters along with

The Budget 2018 speech has several welcome suggestions to deepen and widen the corporate bond market, although setting a target for resources to be raised

Several options are being considered to address the NPA problem of public sector banks, sometimes on a standalone basis and, sometimes in conjunction with other

RBI today kept interest rates unchanged for the third time in a row saying that higher govt spending would accelerate inflation. Rating agencies said today

The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Wednesday pegged retail inflation (CPI) in 5.1-5.6 per cent range for the first half of the coming financial

Housing loans aren’t likely to get cheaper anytime soon and deposit rates aren’t expected to rise as banks claim they have already raised deposit rates.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept its key interest rate unchanged at 6 per cent for the fourth time in succession at its final

The sixth and final monetary policy statement of the Reserve Bank of India for fiscal 2017-18 held no surprises, as expected. Though the stance continues

The market expected RBI to keep the policy rate unchanged in the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting yesterday, but with some tightly worded caution about

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has opted to hold the repo rate at 6%, with one member voting to raise it by a quarter of

It is possible, as some have argued, that bond markets shouldn’t focus just on the central government’s fiscal slippage—in both FY18 and that estimated for