The “real-time payment linkage” between India’s Unified Payments Interface and Singapore’s PayNow is an initiative to push a UPI-based payment ecosystem. Photo: Twitter/@MAS_sg The story so far: On February 21, India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore’s PayNow were officially connected to allow for “real-time payment linkage”. Singapore is the first country with which cross-border […]
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The Reserve Bank of India need not keep raising rates until prices fall as it risks overshooting the inflation-adjusted real rate, which at around 1% now is appropriate for the economy, an external member of the country’s monetary policy committee said. The 250 basis points of rate hikes since May 2022 need to be allowed […]
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Deputy Governor Michael D. Patra Even though the global slowdown in 2023 may be milder than anticipated earlier, the trajectory still remains unpredictable, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials observed in a bulletin article on the ‘State of the Economy’, adding, however, that India’s economy would likely decouple from the rest of the world. In […]
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI). File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Reserve Bank of India on Friday came out with draft norms for lending and borrowing of government securities with wider participation in the securities lending market. Earlier this month, the RBI proposed introduction of securities lending and borrowing in government securities (G-secs) with […]
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The Reserve Bank has raised rates aggressively this year to tame inflation. | Photo Credit: Reuters Under the backdrop of a highly uncertain global environment caused by globalisation of inflation, energy and food shortages, and synchronised tightening of monetary policy worldwide, the Indian economy was exhibiting signs of a gradual strengthening of the growth momentum, […]
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Multiple headwinds at varied points of time impacted the Indian economy’s thorough economic revival in the calendar year 2022. The year started with the threat emanating from the Omicron variant which settled towards the later end of the succeeding month. This was followed by the Russian actions in Ukraine and the ensuing disturbances in global […]
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India’s economic growth is now ‘extremely fragile’ and needs all the support that it can get, as private consumption and capital investment are yet to pick up, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Jayanth R Varma said on December 23. Mr. Varma further said out of the four engines of growth for the economy, exports […]
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The Reserve Bank of India could ill afford to opt for a “premature pause in monetary policy action” as it would prove costly at a time when there was stickiness in core inflation, Governor Shaktikanta Das stressed at the Monetary Policy Committee’s […]
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Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 said underlying economic activity in India continues to be strong, but external factors will cause some “dent” to the economy. Speaking at the BFSI Insight Summit 2022 organised by Business […]
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“Banks have written off ₹11.17 lakh crore bad loans from their books in the last six years till financial year 2021-22,” Parliament was informed on December 20. The non-performing assets (NPAs), including those in respect of which full provisioning has been made on completion of four years, are removed from the balance sheet of the […]
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