Financial Markets

RBI/2011-12/616 FMD.MSRG.No.69/02.05.002/2011-12 June 22, 2012 All Category – I Authorised Dealer Banks and Primary Dealers Madam/Sir, Reporting Platform for OTC Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Derivatives Reserve Bank, vide it’s circular No.FMD.MSRG.No.67/02.05.002/2011-12 dated March 9, 2012, had advised that all inter-bank OTC foreign exchange derivatives transactions should be reported on a platform to be developed by the CCIL. The CCIL has since completed deve

RBI/2011-12/433 FMD.MSRG.No.67/02.05.002/2011-12 March 9, 2012 All Category – I Authorised Dealer Banks and Primary Dealers Madam/Sir, Reporting Platform for OTC Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Derivatives As you are aware, the Reserve Bank of India has taken several steps in the past to improve the transparency of the OTC derivatives market in India. It may be recalled that in August 2007, the Bank had mandated reporting of inter-bank/PD Rupee Forward Rate Agreeme

RBI/2011-2012/370 FMD.MOAG. No. 66 /01.01.01/2011-12 January 27, 2012 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) and Primary Dealers Dear Sir, Additional Repo Operations under Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) on Reporting Fridays At present, Reserve Bank of India operates Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) to inject/absorb liquidity through daily Repo/Reverse Repo auctions. While the LAF Repo operations are conducted in the forenoon between 9.30 A.M. and 10.3

RBI/2011-12/300 A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 58 December 15, 2011 To, All Authorised Dealer Category - I Banks Madam / Sir, Risk Management and Inter Bank Dealings Attention of Authorized Dealers Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign Exchange Derivative Contracts) Regulations, 2000 dated May 3, 2000 [Notification No.FEMA/25/RB-2000 dated May 3, 2000] and A.P.(DIR Series) Circular No.32 dated December 28, 2010, as

RBI/2011-2012/149 FMD.MOAG. No.62/01.01.01/2011-12 August 9, 2011 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) and Primary Dealers Dear Sir, Reverse Repo Window under Liquidity Adjustment Facility and Marginal Standing Facility – Change of Timing Presently, Repo and Reverse Repo auctions under Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) are conducted between 9.30 am and 10.30 am and the Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) is available between 3.30 pm and 4.30 pm on all workin

RBI/2010-11/569 FMD.MOAG. No.60/01.01.01/2010-11 June 16, 2011 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) and Primary Dealers Dear Sir, Liquidity Adjustment Facility – Repo and Reverse Repo and Marginal Standing Facility Rates As announced in the Mid-Quarter Monetary Policy Review: June 2011, it has been decided to increase the repo rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) by 25 basis points from 7.25 per cent to 7.50 per cent with immediate effect. 2.

RBI/2010-11/497 A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 57 May 2, 2011 To All Authorised Dealer Category - I banks Madam / Sir, Pledge of shares for business purposes Under the extant FEMA regulations, powers have been delegated to the Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks to convey ‘no objection’ to the resident eligible borrowers under the extant External Commercial Borrowings (ECB) guidelines for pledge of shares held by the promoters, in accordance with t

RBI/2010-2011/266 FMD.MOAG. No.54/01.01.01/2010-11 November 9, 2010 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) and Primary Dealers Dear Sir, Liquidity Adjustment Facility – Liquidity Easing Measure In order to provide liquidity comfort and to ease the frictional liquidity pressure, it has been decided to conduct a special second LAF (SLAF) on a daily basis at 4.15 pm up to December 16, 2010 with effect from November 9, 2010. 2. All other terms and conditions of t

RBI/2010-11/250 FMD.MOAG. No.51/01.01.01/2010-11 October 29, 2010 All Scheduled Commercial Banks (excluding RRBs) and Primary Dealers Dear Sir, Liquidity Adjustment Facility – Liquidity Easing Measures The Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) window of the Reserve Bank has been in the injection mode in the recent period. In order to provide liquidity comfort, the Reserve Bank has today announced the following temporary measures: A special second LAF (SLAF) will be cond

RBI/2010-11/233 A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 15 October 13, 2010 To All Category - I Authorised Dealer Banks Madam / Sir, Exim Bank's Line of Credit of USD 21.80 million to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) has concluded an Agreement dated February 09, 2010 with the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania making available to the latter, a Line of Credit (LOC) of USD 21.80 million (USD twenty one mil