Mumbai: Overseas debt purchases via the voluntary long-term investment route have accelerated sharply, with foreign holdings so far in May marking their highest monthly level in two years and this year’s commitments crossing the billion-dollar threshold in the latest demonstration of India‘s emergence as a global debt investment option. FPI investment in the debt-voluntary retention … Read more
Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said that permanent deletion of transactions can make the e-rupee or central bank digital currency (CBDC) become anonymous and make it at par with paper currency. Speaking at the BIS Innovation Summit, Das said India is also working on making the CBDC transferable in the offline mode along with introducing … Read more
The World Bank is mulling local currency lending in countries like India to help borrowers save on costs, a senior official said on Friday. “How do we do local currency lending for a country like India is also something we are trying to think of at a price which is advantageous to this country,” Anshula … Read more