News:The Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.15% in its fifth bi-monthly monetary policy statement. Facts: Issues before RBI: The RBI’s most important mandate is to maintain price stability which means RBI is required by law to maintain retail inflation based on Consumer… Continue reading Explained: Why the RBI refused to cut interest rates
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Explained: Why RBI may cut interest rates tomorrow and why it may not be enough
News:The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee is set to announce its bi-monthly policy review on October 4,2019. Facts: What is likely to happen in the policy review? The RBI is likely to cut the repo rate by anywhere between 35 to 40 basis points due to following reasons- Inflation is under control.Hence,there is… Continue reading Explained: Why RBI may cut interest rates tomorrow and why it may not be enough
External benchmark-based lending must: RBI
News:The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made it mandatory for banks to link all new floating rate personal or retail loans and floating rate loans to MSMEs to an external benchmark rate from October 1st,2019. Facts: The RBI has given the options to banks for external benchmark rates which are (a) RBI repo rate… Continue reading External benchmark-based lending must: RBI
Explained: Reasons, implications of repo rate cut
The Reserve Bank of India’s(RBI) monetary policy committee (MPC) has lowered the repo rate by 35 basis points to 5.4%. Repo stands for ‘Repurchasing Option’.It refers to the rate at which commercial banks borrow money from the RBI. The Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) is a committee of the Reserve Bank of India.The MPC is made up… Continue reading Explained: Reasons, implications of repo rate cut
RBI plans to formalise linking of new loans to repo rate
The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) is considering asking banks to link loans to an external benchmark such as the repo rate to improve transmission of policy rates and foster economic growth. Repo stands for ‘Repurchasing Option’.It refers to the rate at which commercial banks borrow money from the RBI. Currently,bank loans are linked to marginal… Continue reading RBI plans to formalise linking of new loans to repo rate
RBI lowers repo rate by 35 basis points to 5.40%
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy committee (MPC) has lowered its repo rate by 35 basis points to 5.4%.Repo stands for ‘Repurchasing Option’.It refers to the rate at which commercial banks borrow money from the RBI. RBI has also kept the door open for lowering rates further by retaining an accommodative policy stance.… Continue reading RBI lowers repo rate by 35 basis points to 5.40%
RBI Governor, state-run bank CEOs discuss slow rate transmission
The Reserve Bank of India Governor has discussed the issues of banking sector with the officials of Public sector banks(PSBs) and Indian Banks Association(IBA). During the meeting,the issue of less than desired level of transmission of monetary policy rates was discussed with the banks.Even though the RBI has cut the Repo rate by 75 basis… Continue reading RBI Governor, state-run bank CEOs discuss slow rate transmission
Easy money can’t revive economy: SBI report
According to State Bank of India report,easy money policy will be ineffective to push the slow growth engine. An easy money policy is a monetary policy that increases the money supply usually by lowering interest rates.It occurs when a country’s central bank decides to allow new cash flows into the banking system. Recently,the Reserve Bank… Continue reading Easy money can’t revive economy: SBI report
SBI to offer home loan linked to repo rate
State Bank of India(SBI) has announced to introduce a repo rate-linked home loan product from July 1,2019.This move seems to be in line with the RBI ‘s direction to the banks to link home loans to an external benchmark. SBI had taken this decision even though RBI had deferred the plan to link the rate… Continue reading SBI to offer home loan linked to repo rate
RBI cuts interest rate by 25 bps
The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) Monetary Policy Committee has unanimously cut the repo rate by 25 basis points from 6% to 5.75%. Repo stands for ‘Repurchasing Option’. Repo rate refers to the rate at which commercial banks borrow money from the RBI. The reverse repo rate was also lowered to 5.50% from 5.75%.The reverse repo… Continue reading RBI cuts interest rate by 25 bps
