FINANCIAL STABILITY REPORT

SBI asset quality remains healthy: Chairman Khara

It can be noted that in the bi-annual Financial Stability Report (FSR) released last month, the RBI had expected banks' non-performing asse...

Fed to avoid early exit or bond-taper signal: Decision-day guide

The Federal Open Market Committee is all but certain to hold interest rates near zero at the conclusion of its two-day policy meeting on We...

Budget 2021 may keep aside Rs 25,000 crore for capital infusion in public sector banks

In its latest Financial Stability Report released earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said public sector banks’ gross non-p...

Tech tonic for growth: Will FM's bahi-khata this year have what's been missing from Budgets so far?

All developed countries, including the US and in Europe, are stagnating. There is no galloping tech horse that India can jump on. The Chine...

Bank credit grows 3.2% in first nine months of FY21

Bank deposits rose 8.5% to Rs 147.27 lakh crore in the April-December 2020 period as against an increase of 5.1% a year ago.

Real bank stress may be hidden by easy liquidity: RBI's Shaktikanta Das

The extraordinary easy liquidity policies of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have helped banks report strong financial parameters but these...

Financial Stability Report: Pandemic hits credit growth of banks, NBFCs

After a 43.1% fall in enquiry volume in the Q1FY21, the enquiry volumes bounced back to a year on year growth of 12.1% in the subsequent qu...

Disconnect between real economy and financial markets only getting worse

The regulator also said that while the active intervention by central banks and fiscal authorities has been able to stabilise financial mar...

Risks to liquidity and bond returns if rates harden

“Any hardening of interest rates would depress investment gains under the AFS (Available For Sale) and HFT (Held To Maturity) categories (d...

Financial Stability Report: Pandemic hits credit growth of banks, NBFCs

After a 43.1% fall in enquiry volume in the Q1FY21, the enquiry volumes bounced back to a year on year growth of 12.1% in the subsequent qu...

Takeaways from RBI’s FSR: Worst of Covid-19 is over, but asset quality may deteriorate

The governor also implored banks to make more investments in information technology to build robust platforms and for operational purposes ...

RBI raises concern over stretched valuation of financial assets, higher govt debt in its Financial Stability report

Raising concerns over a disconnect between the financial markets and the real economy, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said that str...

Disconnect between financial markets & real economy poses risk to financial sector

To be sure this is not the first time the RBI has flagged this off as a risk. In August last year Das had hinted that there could be an imm...

Merger with LVB to strengthen DBS Bank's India biz: Moody's

Moody's said India and Indonesia are DBS' core foreign markets where it is actively growing its digital banking services, and had more than...

Digital shift has made banks even more vulnerable: SWIFT India CEO Kiran Shetty

SWIFT India CEO and regional head Kiran Shetty talks about the impact of the pandemic on banking technology and the need to enhance securit...

RBI's financial stability report curiously silent on banking frauds this time

Since Shaktikanta Das took over as governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in December 2018, all issues of FSR, one of the key publications...

Bad-loan ratio set to worsen to 12.5%, warns RBI in its Financial Stability report

The ratio was already one of the highest among major economies at 8.5% at the end of March, as a two-year shadow banking crisis in India so...