Reserve Bank of India's announcement to cut repo rates and extend moratorium is 'progressive' and focuses more on developmental and regulatory policy measures, the Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Friday.
Hours after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) extended the moratorium on repayment of loans for three months on Friday, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said this step will offer relief to aviation sector companies like airports, airlines and ground handlers and help them improve their cash flow position.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will extend a credit line of Rs 15,000 crore to the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India. The announcement is part of the RBI's latest measures to help businesses and the economy tide over the coronavirus crisis.
Suggestions from various quarters, including from Indian Banks' Association, have come for the further extension of moratorium and the RBI is actively considering them, according to sources.
The Reserve Bank of India has said that the amended trading hours (10:00 am to 2:00 pm) shall remain in place till further notice. Earlier, the period for which the trading hours were amended was capped at April 30. Now that period has been extended until further notice.
The Reserve Bank of India's liquidity support for mutual funds may struggle to be effective, as its success will hang on bank'' appetite to take up the risks involved, amid low capital headroom and a likely increase in fresh non-performing loans, according to Fitch.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday announced a special liquidity facility of ₹50,000 crore for mutual funds (SLF-MF), in a move to ease the iquidity pressures on mutual funds amid coronavirus crisis.
The reduction in reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 3.75 per cent by the Reserve Bank is a significant step but it is important that banks should increase their risk appetite, say economists and analysts.
The real estate industry on Friday hailed RBI's decision to boost liquidity into the system and provide relief to loans taken from NBFCs for commercial projects, but sought one-time restructuring of their loans and a stimulus package to help the sector in battling the crisis caused by the lockdown to control COVID-19.
The Reserve Bank on Friday announced a slew of regulatory and liquidity measures for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), including Rs 50,000 crore of targeted long-term repo operations (TLTRO 2.0) which will focus purely on providing funding to the sector.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut the reverse repo rate by 25 bps to 3.75% while there is no change in the repo rate, announced Governor Shaktikanta Das in a video conference on Friday.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said that the RBI is doing everything to fight the epidemiological challenge that the world is facing. "India's growth rate is expected to be highest among G20 nations, as per IMF estimates," said RBI governor.
Observing that it was difficult to make growth projections at this point of time, the Reserve Bank in its Monetary Policy Report said the lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 and expected contraction in global outlook would weigh heavily on the growth outlook.
The RBI has reduced the trading hours of debt as well as currency markets from Tuesday in view of the lockdown following the outbreak of coronavirus.
ICICI Bank is offering its customers option-based deferment of EMI payments on term loans for the next three months, on directions by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Some ICICI Bank customers will automatically be allowed a moratorium but can opt out if they wish to, while others will have to specifically ask for a deferment.
In a statement, the RBI said presently, the value of goods or software exports made by the exporters is required to be realised fully and repatriated to the country within a period of 9 months from the date of exports.
As novel coronavirus pandemic that has impacted our economy, there was a dilemma if the merger would be postponed for some time or not , the Reserve Bank of India cleared the air that the merger of 10 PSUs will still take place on the set date i.e. April 1, 2020.
The Reserve Bank on Tuesday reallocated portfolios of deputy governors, with the Department of Regulation being entrusted to M K Jain. The move was necessitated as N S Vishwanathan demitted office on Tuesday, an RBI communique said.
RBI on Friday said that all commercial banks, co-operative banks, all-India financial institutions, and NBFCs are being permitted to allow a moratorium of three months on payment of installments in respect of all term loans outstanding as on March 1, 2020. But, is credit cards outstanding covered under RBI's 3-month moratorium?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had taken giant steps to safeguard the economy from the impact of the coronavirus. The RBI cut the benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to 4.4 per cent on Friday to deal with the hardship caused due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
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