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Source: Live Mint Did you borrow money from a bank but now realise that you got a rough deal from it? You have realised that there are too many hidden costs or the rate of interest was raised unreasonably soon after? Or is there something else, which the bank has done that violates the line of…
Source: Live Mint Mumbai: India’s capital markets regulator is set to ease the registration of foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) if they want to invest in government-backed securities, even as it proposed doubling the equity investment threshold set for granular disclosures by FPIs to ₹50,000 crore. The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) whole time…
Source: Live Mint As from January 1, 2025, one of the key regulations taken by the Reserve Bank of India will make it compulsory for lenders to update credit bureau records every 15 days. This may completely transform the way credit score is calculated and published, thus ensuring that the financial activity of the borrowers…
Source: Live Mint MUMBAI, Jan 3 (Reuters) – The Indian rupee ended at a record closing low on Friday, pressured by a decline in the Chinese yuan, and logged a ninth straight week of losses due to the relentless rise in the U.S. dollar. The rupee ended at 85.77 to the dollar, compared to its…
Source: Live Mint than one and a half years after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the withdrawal of ₹2,000 banknotes, only 1.88 per cent of the currency notes have yet to be returned, according to the latest RBI data released on January 1, 2025. The unreturned notes are worth ₹6,691 crore, reveals the…
Source: Live Mint Mumbai, Jan 1 (PTI) The Reserve Bank on Wednesday said 98.12 per cent of the ₹2000 banknotes have been returned to the banking system, and only ₹6,691 crore worth such notes are still with the public. On May 19, 2023, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the withdrawal of ₹2000 denomination…
Source: Live Mint MUMBAI – The Indian rupee was slightly stronger on Monday as most regional currencies rose, while very-near-tenor dollar-rupee swap rates surged to unusually high levels amid panic bids, according to traders. The rupee was at 85.4750 against the U.S. dollar as of 11 a.m. IST, up from its close of 85.5325 in…
Source: Live Mint MUMBAI, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Indian banks’ financial position has stayed robust, marked by the sustained expansion in loans and deposits, while their gross bad loan ratio has dropped to multi-year lows, a central bank report showed on Thursday. Banks’ gross non-performing assets ratio (NPA), or the proportion of bad assets to…
Source: Live Mint MUMBAI, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Indian government bond yields rose on Tuesday, with the benchmark yield inching above the key 6.75% level, after the rupee fell to yet another record low and as investors braced for the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting. The 10-year yield ended at 6.7588%, compared with its previous…
Source: Live Mint (Bloomberg) — The liquidity deficit in the Indian banking system hit the highest in nearly six months on advance tax payments by companies and likely dollar sales by the central bank to curb rupee volatility. The banking system cash deficit, as measured by banks’ borrowings from the Reserve Bank of India, was…
