The latest amendment by the Reserve Bank of India to bank lending norms hits a critical cog: cheap leverage. The RBI has barred banks from deploying depositor money to fund proprietary trading and has mandated stricter collateral rules for capital market intermediaries (CMIs), including brokers and exchanges. This comes on top of the government’s upcoming…
Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom RBI MuleHunter AI: The rapidly increasing cyber fraud in the country has given sleepless nights to the common people. With the increasing use of digital payments, cases of fraud have also increased and incidents of fraud worth crores of rupees are coming to light….
Manappuram Finance, on Saturday, said that the company has received Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approval for the proposed acquisition of up to 41.66% of the company’s paid-up equity capital or convertible instruments by Bain Capital affiliates — BC Asia Investments XXV Ltd and BC Asia Investments XIV Ltd. Manappuram Finance said in a statement…
Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Amidst the increasing cases of digital fraud, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced some relief for the people. The central bank has said that customers will be given compensation up to Rs 25,000 to compensate for the losses incurred due to fraudulent…
RBI MPC decision: Much along expected line the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) six-panel rate-setting committee decided to hold the gunpowder dry as it kept the key repo rate unchanged at 5.25% on Friday. Announcing the February Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) outcome earlier today, Governor Sanjay Malhotra said the decision to keep the repo rate…
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India plans to remove the limit of ₹2.5 trillion applicable to investments under the Voluntary Retention Route (VRR), a move seen to draw greater overseas investments. “Investment through the VRR in each category of securities will be subject to the investment ceiling for the respective category under the general route,”…
RBI MPC Meet 2026 LIVE: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will announce its monetary policy decision today, 6 February 2026, Friday. The RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra-led Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held its sixth and the last bi-monthly policy meeting for FY26 from February 4 to February 6, and the repo rate decision will be…
India’s fixed-income market is adjusting to a new policy setting following the Union Budget 2026–27, with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) expected to remain on hold. For bond investors, the conversation has quickly shifted from “how low can yields go” to a more nuanced question — how to earn steady returns in a world…
As India-US deal finalises, The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is widely expected to keep the repo rate – the key policy rate – unchanged in its upcoming policy meeting scheduled from February 4 to 6. The MPC may also retain a neutral policy stance. Brokerage house Bank of America (BofA)…
Questions have once again been raised in Parliament regarding large-scale loan write-offs by banks in the country. Lok Sabha MPs Babu Singh Kushwaha, Devesh Shakya and Neeraj Maurya asked the government why loans worth about Rs 12.3 lakh crore were written off by public and private sector commercial banks between the financial year 2015 to…
