Mumbai: Overseas Indians sent home a record $29 billion by way of remittances in the December quarter as steadily climbing returns from FCNR (foreign currency – non resident) instruments have made such savings plans more lucrative than bank deposits in the West. To be sure, remittances are a source of permanent flows, unlike repatriable NRI … Read more
Mumbai: Government bond yields are set to ease, lowering the cost of debt for Indian firms, as the Centre’s decision to borrow less than usual in the first half of the next fiscal has improved the demand-supply dynamics for the sovereign bond market. On Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the Centre would … Read more
Shares of banks and NBFC shares like Bajaj Finance on Thursday rose up to 4% after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) relaxed rules regarding provisions for investments in Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) by all regulated entities. Led by healthy buying seen in banks and other financial stocks, Nifty rallied over 200 points today and … Read more
Mumbai: India’s capital markets regulator has ordered local mutual fund managers to stop accepting money in plans that invest in overseas exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a $1-billion cumulative sectoral limit for such investments is close to being breached. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulates the fund inflows and outflows involving locally pooled investments … Read more
Mumbai: A recent reduction in cooking gas prices is likely to exert a softening effect on inflation that’s also being aided by declining non-food prices, but monetary policy must remain in “risk-minimisation” mode to firmly bring consumer prices back to the legally mandated target, central bank economists said. “Fuel prices remain in deflation, and this … Read more
Mumbai: Sovereign bond yields, the benchmark for pricing debt, may harden this week as several states have announced record-high borrowings ahead of the general election, surprising investors with a deluge of securities. On Tuesday, 17 state governments will sell bonds worth ₹50,206 crore, a record for a week, and 80% higher than the ₹27,810 crore … Read more
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may have to take a fresh look at its long-standing caps for foreign ownership of government debt as lumpy inflows expected over the next couple of years due to global bond index inclusion alter a critical landscape for the Centre’s debt manager. In March 2020, the RBI introduced … Read more
Retail inflation in India eased a tad in February to 5.09 per cent from 5.10 per cent the prior month. It was at a four-month high of 5.69 per cent in December. The retail inflation in India though is in RBI’s 2-6 per cent comfort level but is above the ideal 4 per cent scenario. … Read more
AK Purwar, Chairman & Independent Director, IIFL Finance, says RBI pointed out certain gaps in our systems. Let me put it that the gold loan business which we are having, the practices, systems, processes is all as per present industry standards and present industry norms. RBI suggested certain changes which we have in a way … Read more
Mumbai: European Union authorities have proposed amending norms on exposure to third-country clearing houses, a move that comes amid a protracted tussle between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and regulators from the continent on treating the primary domestic sovereign bond platform. ET has seen a document dated February 13 that showed the General Secretariat … Read more
