Reserve Bank of India

    Market Infrastructure

    RBI to Review Framework for Core Investment Firms

    By Editors | 04/07/2019

    Concerned that oversight of increasingly complex core investment firms is now inadequate, the RBI has set up a working group to review its framework.

    Capital / Liquidity

    RBI Relaxes Leverage Ratio to Boost Lending

    By Editors | 02/07/2019

    The RBI has reduced the leverage ratio from 4.5% at present to 4% for D-SIBs (domestic systemically important banks) and 3.5% for other banks.

    Capital / Liquidity

    India’s Banks Are Becoming More Resilient: RBI

    By Editors | 01/07/2019

    The RBI says gross NPA ratios and loan provisioning are improving, but it warns that capital adequacy at some banks will fall below requirements without more government cash.

    Securities / Derivatives

    RBI Issues Consolidated Directions for Interest Rate Derivatives

    By Editors | 28/06/2019

    Under the new directions, stock exchanges and OTC market-makers have been given the flexibility to design and structure IRD products tailored to the needs of market participants.

    Market Infrastructure

    RBI Issues Guidelines for Financial Benchmark Administrators

    By Editors | 27/06/2019

    Existing financial benchmark administrators will be notified if their benchmark is considered a “significant benchmark”. They will then have three months to apply for RBI authorisation.

    Enforcement

    RBI Launches Online Platform for Financial Complaints

    By Editors | 25/06/2019

    The new Complaint Management System allows customers of regulated financial entities in India to lodge complaints against those entities online.

    Securities / Derivatives

    RBI Retail FX Trading Platform Set for 5 August Launch

    By Editors | 21/06/2019

    The RBI has said that FX-Retail, the electronic platform for retail foreign exchange trading, will be launched on 5 August.

    Capital / Liquidity

    RBI to Step Up Monitoring of Shadow Banking Sector

    By Editors | 11/06/2019

    Governor Shaktikanta Das says the RBI will increase its monitoring of NBFCs and issue final liquidity risk management rules for the sector “soon”.

    Securities / Derivatives

    RBI to Roll Out Retail FX Trading Platform in August

    By Editors | 10/06/2019

    The new trading platform is expected to improve pricing by unifying the existing fragmented market structure.

    Capital / Liquidity

    UPDATED – RBI Issues New Framework for Stressed Asset Resolution

    By Garima Chitkara | 10/06/2019

    The new norms replace the February 2018 rules on the resolution of stressed assets that were struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year.

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