The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated September 29, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹31.80 lakh (Rupees Thirty One Lakh Eighty Thousand only) on Indian Overseas Bank (the bank) for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Priority Sector Lending (PSL) – Targets and Classification’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Sections 46(4)(i) and 51(1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of September 2025 are set out in Tables 1 to 7.

Today, the Reserve Bank released data relating to India’s International Investment Position for end-June 2025[1]. Key Features of India’s IIP in end-June 2025: • Net claims of non-residents on India declined by US$ 16.4 billion during Q1:2025-26 and stood at US$ 312.8 billion as at end-June 2025. It was mainly due to higher rise in Indian residents’ overseas financial assets (US$ 47.8 billion) as compared to the foreign-owned assets in India (US$ 31.4 billion) (Table 1).

The stock of external debt at end-June 2025 as well as revised data for earlier quarters are set out in Statements I (IMF format ) and II (old format). The major developments relating to India’s external debt as at end-June 2025 are presented below. Highlights • At end-June 2025, India’s external debt was placed at US$ 747.2 billion, an increase of US$ 11.2 billion over its level at end-March 2025 (Table 1).

The value of exports and imports of services during August 2025 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) April – 2025 32,853 (8.9) 16,912 (0.9) May – 2025 32,461 (9.6) 16,697 (-1.1)

The Reserve Bank today released data on India’s invisibles as per the IMF’s Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) format for April-June of 2025-26.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended September 26, 2025.

The result of the auction of State Government Securities held on September 30, 2025, is as under: (Amount in ₹ Crore) ANDHRA PRADESH SGS 2045 ANDHRA PRADESH SGS 2046 BIHAR SGS 2043 BIHAR SGS 2049 Notified Amount 1000 1000 2000 2000 Tenor 20 -Years 21 -Years 18 -Years 24 -Years Competitive Bids Received (i) No. 32 26 83 34 (ii) Amount 3575 3725 7092.100 5495.100 Cut-off Yield (%) 7.50 7.50 7.58 7.57

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of August 2025 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks (SCBs), accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit by all SCBs, are set out in Statements I and II. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit grew by 9.9 per cent as on the fortnight ended August 22, 2025

The recent amendments to Section 3 of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (PSS Act, 2007) carried out, vide the Finance Act, 2017 came into effect from May 9, 2025, with issue of the Gazette Notification dated May 06, 2025, by Department of Financial Services, Government of India. With the notification, the erstwhile Board for Regulation and Supervision of Payment and Settlement Systems (BPSS), a committee of the Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India, has been replaced with the Payments Regulatory Board from May 9, 2025. 2. The Payments Regulatory Board has been constituted under Section 3 (2) of PSS Act, 2007 consisting of the following members: