The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), set up under the RBI Act, 1934, commenced its operations on April 1, 1935. Today marks the 90th year from its establishment. To mark this momentous occasion, a commemorative event was organised by the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai with the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi as the Chief Guest and with the participation of Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra, Shri C. Ramesh Bais, Hon’ble Finance Minister, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Eknath Shinde, Hon’ble Ministers of State for Finance, Shri Pankaj Chaudhary and Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad, Hon’ble Deputy Chief Ministers of Maharashtra, Shri Devendra Fadnavis and Shri Ajit Pawar

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in collaboration with Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is organizing RBI-OECD High Level Global Symposium on Financial Education on 8-9 November 2017 New Delhi, India.

The conference aims to stimulate ideas, discussions and solutions around implementing effective financial literacy policies in a changing financial landscape and will focus on the following topics:

• Financial literacy in the digital age: challenges and opportunities
• Effective delivery of financial literacy in the digital age:
  • National strategies for financial education
  • The role of public, private and civil stakeholders

The Central Bank Risk managers’ Conference (CBRMC) is an annual event and provides a unique opportunity for central bank risk managers to build and maintain an informal network to discuss issues related to central banks’ financial risk management. After the first conference held in 2004 by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel in Switzerland, these annual conferences have been organised by various central banks around the world.

The 12th edition of the Central Bank Risk Managers’ Conference was hosted by the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai on November 17-18, 2016. It focused on economic capital and risk appetite frameworks at central banks, risks arising from unconventional monetary policy operations, integrated risk management, as well as model validation. The conference was attended by senior officials from leading central banks and the BIS who are responsible for developing and implementing risk management policies or processes relating to foreign exchange reserves and balance sheet exposures of central banks.