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CBDCs
India to Introduce Digital Rupee in Coming Fiscal Year
By Manesh Samtani | 03/02/2022
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the RBI will introduce a CBDC in the coming fiscal year and crypto profits will be taxed at 30 percent.
Trading & Investment
SEBI Temporarily Suspends Overseas Investments by Mutual Funds
By Editors | 02/02/2022
The mutual fund industry is reportedly close to breaching a USD 7 billion industry-wide limit on overseas investments.
Resolution & Recovery
India: Unity Small Finance Bank Takes Over PMC Bank Branches
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 01/02/2022
Unity Small Finance Bank is offering immediate repayment of PMC Bank deposits up to INR 500,000, which makes whole 96 percent of depositors.
Structural Regulation
RBI Allows More NBFCs to Undertake Factoring Business
By Editors | 23/01/2022
The change will increase the number of NBFCs eligible to undertake factoring business from 7 to 182.
Market Risk
RBI Proposes New Classification Norms for Bank Investments
By Editors | 14/01/2022
The RBI proposes to divide banks’ investment portfolios into three categories – held-to-maturity, available for sale, and fair value through profit and loss account.
Liquidity Risk
RBI Updates Liquidity Standards to Align with Basel Norms
By Editors | 11/01/2022
The RBI has raised the deposit threshold under which small business customers can be managed as retail deposits for the purposes of LCR and NSFR.
Cloud & Infrastructure
RBI Establishes Dedicated Fintech Unit to Promote Innovation
By Editors | 10/01/2022
The new department will seek to promote innovation in the financial sector including by exploring policy interventions by the RBI.
Data Privacy
RBI Issues Eligibility Criteria for Use of Credit Information Services
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 07/01/2022
More entities will become eligible to tap credit information disseminated by CICs, which observers say will benefit digital lenders and neobanks.
Trading & Investment
RBI Introduces New Market Making Scheme for G-sec Market
By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 06/01/2022
The market-making scheme will ensure quotes are available to retail investors using the RBI Retail Direct Scheme to buy and sell G-secs.
Capital Adequacy
RBI Publishes List of Indian D-SIBs for 2022
By Editors | 05/01/2022
SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank continue to be identified as D-SIBs, under the same bucketing structure as in the 2020 list.
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