Reserve Bank of India

Finance

05 July, 2019

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

03 July, 2019

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

03 July, 2019

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 ......

Premium

Finance

02 July, 2019

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

01 July, 2019

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

28 June, 2019

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

27 June, 2019

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

24 June, 2019

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

18 June, 2019

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

12 June, 2019

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 ......