Press Releases

Government of India (GOI) has announced the sale (re-issue) of four dated securities for a notified amount of ₹30,000 crore as per the following details: Sr No Security Date of Repayment Notified Amount (₹ crore) GoI specific Notification Auction Date Settlement Date 1 6.69% GS 2024 June 27, 2024 4,000 F.No.4(3)-B(W&M)/2022 datedOctober 31, 2022 November 04, 2022 (Friday) November 07, 2022 (Monday) 2 7.10% GS 2029 Apr 18, 2029 6,000 3 7.54% GS 2036 May 23, 2036 11

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, by an order dated October 20, 2022, a monetary penalty of ₹2.00 lakh (Rupees Two lakh only) on The City Co-operative Bank Ltd., Mysore, Karnataka (the bank) for non-adherence / violation of directions issued under Management of Advances-UCBs. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in RBI under the provisions of Section 47 A (1) (c) read with Section 46 (4) (i) and Section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, by an order dated October 20, 2022, a monetary penalty of ₹5.00 lakh (Rupees Five lakh only) on The Mysore Merchants Co-operative Bank Ltd., Mysore, Karnataka (the bank) for non-adherence / violation of directions issued under Management of Advances-UCBs. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in RBI under the provisions of Section 47 A (1) (c) read with Section 46 (4) (i) and Section 56 of the Banking R

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1,76,00,000 (Rupees One Crore and Seventy Six Lakh only) on Vakrangee Limited (the entity) for non-compliance with certain provisions of the White Label ATM (WLA) directions. The penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in RBI under Section 30 of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (PSS Act). This action is based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance and is not intended to pron

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated October 21, 2022, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹5.00 lakh (Rupees Five lakh only) on LIC Housing Finance Limited, Mumbai (the company) for non-compliance with certain provisions of “The Housing Finance Companies (NHB) Directions, 2010” issued by the National Housing Bank (NHB) on July 02, 2018 read with the press release dated August 13, 2019 issued by the Reserve Bank of India (the Bank) on “Transfer of Regulati

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated October 17, 2022, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹6 lakh (Rupees Six lakh only) on The Pratap Co-operative Bank Ltd., Mumbai (the bank) for non-compliance with certain provisions of the ‘Reserve Bank of India – (Know Your Customer (KYC)) Direction, 2016’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in RBI under the provisions of section 47 A (1) (c) read with section 46 (4) (i) of the Banking Regulat

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) for the month of October 2022. Highlights: Lending Rates: The weighted average lending rate (WALR) on fresh rupee loans of SCBs increased by 26 basis points (bps) from 8.33 per cent in August 2022 to 8.59 per cent in September 2022. The WALR on outstanding rupee loans of SCBs increased by 10 bps from 9.13 per cent in August 2022 to 9.23 per c

RBI vide Press Release dated October 7, 2022 had announced that the Reserve Bank will soon commence pilot launches of Digital Rupee (e₹) for specific use cases. Accordingly, the first pilot in the Digital Rupee - Wholesale segment (e₹-W) shall commence on November 1, 2022. 2. The use case for this pilot is settlement of secondary market transactions in government securities. Use of e₹-W is expected to make the inter-bank market more efficient. Settlement in central ba

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of September 20221 collected from 40 select scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 93 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, are set out in Statements I and II.On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit2 registered a growth of 16.9 per cent in September 2022 as compared with 6.8 per cent a year ago. Highlights of the sectoral deployment of bank cred

The 598th meeting of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India was held today in Mumbai under the Chairmanship of Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor. The Board in its meeting reviewed the current economic situation, global and domestic challenges including the overall impact of current global geopolitical crises. The Board also discussed the functioning of various Sub-Committees of the Central Board, Ombudsman Scheme and activities of select Central Office D