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Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India addressed the participants of a Symposium on Transformation of Indian Banking and Financial System in 50 Years of India's Independence. The two-day Symposium was organised by the Bankers Training College of the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai on March 20-21 to celebrate the 50th year of India's Independence. The Symposium was attended by senior officers from banks, financial institutions and the Reserve Bank of India. A

Chairman, distinguished participants and friends,I am thankful to the organisers for inviting me to deliver this address. It is good to see that the focus on paradigm shift did not extend to shifting the traditional speaker at the Valedictory Address. Today’s address will be divided into five sections. The first section would capture the paradigm shift in the environment in the Indian banking as presented in the Conference and the deliberations as captured by the Rapp

Ninth V.T. Krishnamachari Memorial Lecture on 'The Role of Monetary Policy' delivered by C. Rangarajan Governor, Reserve Bank of India at The Institute of Economic Growth Delhi on Tuesday, 11th November 1997 It is a great honour to be invited to deliver the 9th V.T.Krishnamachari Memorial Lecture. As you all know, Mr.Krishnamachari was a distinguished civil servant who left his imprint on many walks of India's life. The princely States of Baroda and Jaipur gained imme

Monetary and Credit Policy: Issues and Perspectives by Dr. Y.V.Reddy, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India at Discussion Meeting organised by Indian Merchants' Chamber Economic Research and Training Foundation Mumbai on November 17, 1997 Issues and Perspectives Chairman and friends, it gives me great pleasure to be with you today for this discussion. Dr.Jhaveri, for whom I have high personal regard, has been insisting for quite some time that I address this forum. W

Principal Sivaraman and Friends, I am thankful to Shri Sivaraman for inviting me and giving me an opportunity to meet you and interact with you. He gave me the freedom to choose a topic and I chose public debt because of its great importance to not only the Reserve Bank of India and Governments concerned but also to macro-economic policy in general and to financial sector in particular. In the context of broader economic reform as also financial sector reform, a numbe

Address by Dr.Y.V.Reddy, Deputy Governor, at Reserve Bank of India, Chennai, on May 2, 1998. Monetary and credit policy has, recently been attracting serious public attention and interest. The media, the intellectuals, the business community and in fact, people in almost all walks of life in India have been showing interest in understanding the policy and its implications and the manner in which it affects them. There is also a close observation of the stance of polic

Address at the Inaugural Conference of Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (FIMMDA) by Dr.Y.V.Reddy, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, on June 3, 1998 at Mumbai. Interest Rates in India : Status and Issues Friends, I am happy to be here at the inaugural conference to commemorate the incorporation of Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (FIMMDA). Let me, at the outset, congratulate the organisers who have taken

Indian Financial Markets : New Initiatives by Dr. Y.V. Reddy Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade at Delhi on November 5, 1997 Indian Financial Markets: New Initiatives It gives me great pleasure to be in this institute today. I have many friends here since I had the privilege of being the Director General of this esteemed institution in 1995. However, the main reason for my being here today is the insistence of my dear an

Key note address by Dr. Y V Reddy, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India, at the CII seminar on `Emerging Scenario in Foreign Currency Management' on February 20, 1998 in Mumbai. Emerging Concerns and State of Indian Economy Chairman and friends, On this occasion, I propose to address the limited issue of identifying the emerging concerns on the state of economies of emerging markets with particular reference to recent developments and place before you a factual acco

Dr C Rangarajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India inaugurated the Seminar on Bank Supervision today at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. The five-day Seminar has been organised by the Reserve Bank of India in coordination with the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Representatives of the central banks from several SAARC countries such as, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka as well as