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Banking is a risky business. Banks, or more generally the credit institutions, in their role as intermediaries take upon themselves significant credit risks, while interposing between lenders (depositors) and borrowers. Credit risk is, by far, the largest risk faced by banks. The risk transformation, where they become borrowers to lenders and lenders to borrowers, leads to warehousing of risks in credit institutions. In fact, this risk transformation offered by credit intermediaries is the cornerstone of credit intermediation which facilitates pooling of savings for being lent for various economic activities.
The Reserve Bank of India will release the next Mid-Quarter Review of Monetary Policy 2011-12 at 11 am on March 15, 2012. The Review will be by way of a press release and will be placed on the Reserve Bank’s website (www.rbi.org.in).
t has been decided to: reduce the cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks by 75 basis points from 5.5 per cent to 4.75 per cent of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) effective the fortnight beginning March 10, 2012. This reduction will inject around `480 billion of primary liquidity into the banking system.
As you are aware, the Reserve Bank of India has taken several steps in the past to improve the transparency of the OTC derivatives market in India. It may be recalled that in August 2007, the Bank had mandated reporting of inter-bank/PD Rupee Forward Rate Agreement (FRA) and Interest Rate Swap (IRS) trades to the reporting platform developed by Clearing Corporation of India Limited (CCIL) for the purpose. In this context, following an announcement in the Annual Policy for the year 2010-11, a Working Group was constituted in June 2010 to work out the modalities for an efficient, single point reporting mechanism for all OTC interest rate and forex derivative transactions. The report of the Working Group was placed on the Bank’s website on May 25, 2011.
Section 49 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 requires the Reserve Bank to make public (from time to time) the standard rate at which it is prepared to buy or re-discount bills of exchange or other commercial paper eligible for purchase under that Act.2. Being the discount rate, the Bank Rate should technically be higher than the policy repo rate. The Bank Rate has, however, been kept unchanged at 6 per cent since April 2003. This was mainly for the reason that monetary policy signalling was done through modulations in the reverse repo rate and the repo rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) (till May 3, 2011) and the policy repo rate under the revised operating procedure of monetary policy (from May 3, 2011 onwards). Moreover, under the revised operating procedure, marginal standing facility (MSF), instituted at 100 basis points above the policy repo rate, has been in operation, which in many ways serves the purpose of the Bank Rate.
The Core Group constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India had approved in March 2010, a road map for convergence of Indian Accounting Standards (IAS) with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). In the Annual Policy Statement 2010-2011 of the Reserve Bank issued on April 20, 2010, it was stated that UCBs having net worth in excess of Rs. 300 crore would, in the preparation of their accounts, converge with IFRS in tandem with the time schedule given for scheduled commercial banks and accordingly convert their opening balance sheet as on April 1, 2013 in compliance with IFRS converged IAS.
Liberalised Remittance Scheme for Resident Individuals – The facility is available to all resident individuals including minors. In case of remitter being a minor, the LRS declaration form should be countersigned by the minor’s natural guardian. Accordingly, the modified LRS application cum declaration form is enclosed; Remittances under the facility can be consolidated in respect of family members subject to individual family members complying with the terms and conditions of the scheme; and
Circular DBOD No. CID. BC.84/20.16.042/2011-12, dated 5-3-2012 We advise that, on March 5, 2012, we have issued ‘Certificate of Registration’ to Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited (CIBIL) to carry on the business of credit information. The address of the company is as follows: The Managing Director, Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd. Hoechst House, 6th Floor […]
Please refer to our Circular DBOD.No.Leg.BC.24 /09.07.005/2009-10 dated July 21, 2009 wherein banks were, inter alia, advised to display the names and other details of the officials at their Head Office / Zonal Offices / Regional Offices including the names of the Nodal Officers / Principal Nodal Officers appointed under the Banking Ombudsman Scheme, 2006 on their web-sites who can be contacted for redressal of complaints. Banks were also advised to display the names, addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers of their CMD / CEO, Line Functioning Heads for operations such as, Credit Cards, Loans and Advances, Retail Banking, Personal Banking, Rural / Agricultural Banking, SME Banking, etc on their web-sites to enable their customers to approach them, if necessary.
(Inaugural Address delivered by Mr. V.K. Sharma, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India, at the World Risk Workshop 2012, organized by R-square RiskLab at Mumbai, India, February 6-7, 2012) 1. For all the like-never-before-and-hopefully-never-after financial, fiscal, economic and social costs of the Global Financial Crisis, the one perverse benefit of it, nevertheless, has been that […]
