Reserve Bank of India
Finance
Budget 2019: RBI to get more powers; NBFCs receive a lifeline
The government will give greater power to the central bank to regulate mortgage lenders and non-banking financial companies, as it ......
Finance
RBI may soon get power to regulate housing finance companies
The Indian government will soon give the nation's central bank power to regulate housing finance companies (HFCs), which will almost ......
General
India's services activity contracts in June for first time in a year
India’s dominant services activity contracted for the first time in more than a year in June, dragged down by slowing ......
Finance
Budget 2019: Will govt look beyond recapitalisation to overhaul state-run banks?
As finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman gives final touches to her first budget speech later this week, she’d be doing so ......
Economy
Govt considers granting RBI more powers to regulate NBFCs
The Indian government is considering giving more powers to the central bank to regulate the struggling shadow banking sector, Finance ......
Finance
RBI expects banks' bad loans to decline by March 2020
India’s central bank on Thursday said the proportion of commercial lenders’ non-performing assets (NPAs) may fall slightly to 9% by ......
Finance
RBI says foreign firms can process transactions abroad, but must store data in India
Foreign payment firms such as Mastercard and Visa can process transactions made in India outside of the country but the ......
Finance
RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya resigns six months before term ends
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Deputy Governor Viral Acharya has resigned six months before the scheduled end of his term in office, ......
TMT
RBI to review data storage rules that irked Visa, Mastercard
India will examine concerns raised by foreign technology companies around stringent rules to store data locally, the government said on ......
Economy
Retail inflation rises to 3.05% in May; industrial output grows 3.4% in April
India's retail inflation rate picked up in May on higher food prices, but stayed below the central bank's target, potentially ......