The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) and Rupee Denominated Bonds (RDB) both, through Automatic Route and Approval Route, for the month of August 2025.

As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies on October 01, 2025, and as part of continuous efforts towards ‘facilitating external trade and payments’ the Reserve Bank has made the following amendments to the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending) Regulations, 2018 and Foreign Exchange Management (Foreign currency accounts by a person resident in India) Regulations, 2015.

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on Overseas Direct Investment, both under Automatic Route and the Approval Route, for the month of September 2025.

As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, it has been decided to rationalize regulations pertaining to External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) included in the Foreign Exchange Management (Borrowing and Lending) Regulations, 2018 issued under FEMA, 1999. Salient features of the proposed regulations are as under:

As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, the Reserve Bank had issued the Foreign Exchange Management (Establishment in India of a Branch Office or a Liaison Office or a Project Office or any other place of business) Regulations, 2016, vide Notification No. FEMA 22(R)/2016-RB. dated March 31, 2016. 2. On a review, it has been decided to amend the extant regulations along the following lines:

As announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, the following changes have been made in the extant directions to provide operational flexibility and ease compliance burden on Exporters, Importers and Merchanting Traders:

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 Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on Overseas Direct Investment, both under Automatic Route and the Approval Route, for the month of August 2025.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period August 04, 2025 – August 08, 2025 All Figures are in USD Millions Position Date MERCHANT INTER BANK FCY / INR FCY / FCY FCY / INR FCY / FCY Spot Forward Forward Cancel Spot Forward Forward Cancel Spot Swap Forward Spot Swap Forward Purchases 04-08-2025 3,663 1,733 1,192 400 476 280 20,555 28,795 2,144 7,044 2,560 251 05-08-2025 4,514 1,287 685 228 133 95 16,248 35,207 3,913 5,535 1,978 219 06-08-2025 4,128 1,804 1,504 391 305 240 16,399 27,319 2,940 6,346 2,369 239 07-08-2025 4,256 1,922 929 434 294 264 15,050 24,083 3,501 6,975 1,911 1,429 08-08-2025 4,129 1,138 970 350 184 110 14,822 26,181 2,037 5,844 2,873 526 Sales