New Delhi: The central government’s fiscal deficit, in absolute terms, could be slightly better than the revised estimates for FY24, on the back of better than expected revenue receipts, an official said. In the interim Budget in February, the government pegged its FY24 fiscal deficit at ₹17.35 lakh crore, against the budget estimate of ₹17.89 … Read more
Mumbai: Shares of state-owned banks, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and infrastructure firms plunged as much as 10% on Monday following the Reserve Bank of India‘s tougher draft guidelines on the financing and accounting of project loans. The proposed stricter lending criteria, with additional provisioning, are aimed at preventing accounting shocks but could potentially hurt balance … 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
Sovereign Gold Bonds premature redemption price: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on April 23 fixed the premature redemption price for Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGB) under the 2017-18 Series IV and 2018-19 Series II tranches. the central bank has set the premature price at Rs 7,325 per unit for the SGBs in these two series. … Read more
Amazon Pay is planning to kick off credit services on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform as part of a deal with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). This initiative aims to enhance customer experience and value propositions, Vikas Bansal of Amazon Pay India told The Financial Express (FE). In February of this year, … Read more
“There are a good number of senior management people we have already boarded to the bank and they are also setting up the bank and so it is the right time, given we have a very professional team,” says Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, MD & CEO, Bandhan Bank.What are your future plans?I need to retire and … Read more
Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday announced that it would launch of a dedicated mobile application for Retail Direct Scheme so that investors can make payments in a seamless way. Retail Direct scheme is a one-stop solution to facilitate investment in Government Securities by Individual Investors. It doesn’t require any intermediaries or … Read more
Mumbai: Overseas Indians sent home a record $29 billion by way of remittances in the December quarter as steadily climbing returns from FCNR (foreign currency – non resident) instruments have made such savings plans more lucrative than bank deposits in the West. To be sure, remittances are a source of permanent flows, unlike repatriable NRI … Read more
India has allowed its central bank to import gold without paying import levies, the government said in a notification issued late on Tuesday. Gold importers from the world’s second biggest gold consumer need to pay basic customs duty and Agriculture Infrastructure and Development Cess (AIDC). As of September 2023, the Reserve Bank of India held … Read more
Mumbai: European Union authorities have proposed amending norms on exposure to third-country clearing houses, a move that comes amid a protracted tussle between the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and regulators from the continent on treating the primary domestic sovereign bond platform. ET has seen a document dated February 13 that showed the General Secretariat … Read more