Press Releases

Over the years, the Reserve Bank of India has prioritised security of digital payments, in particular the requirement of Additional Factor of Authentication (AFA) for making payments. No specific factor was mandated for authentication, but the digital payments ecosystem has primarily adopted SMS-based OTP as AFA. While OTP is working satisfactorily, technological advancements have made available alternative authentication mechanisms.

The value of exports and imports of services during June 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) April – 2024 30,332 (17.7) 16,631 (19.1) May – 2024 29,764 (10.3) 16,744 (5.4) June – 2024 28,818 (3.7) 15,021 (-3.8) Notes: (i) Data are provisional; and (ii) Figures in parentheses are growth rates over the corresponding month of the previous year which have been revised on the basis of balance of payments statistics.

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) for the month of July 2024 are presented in Tables 1 to 7.

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 January - March of 2023-24.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended July 26, 2024. Ajit Prasad Deputy General Manager (Communications) Press Release: 2024-2025/805

As part of enhancing the robustness of Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS), it was announced in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated February 08, 2024, that the onboarding process of AePS Touchpoint Operators will be streamlined. In recent times, there have been instances of frauds perpetuated through AePS due to identity theft or compromise of customer credentials.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of June 20241 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, are set out in Statements I and II. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit2 registered a growth of 13.9 per cent in June 20243 as compared with 16.3 per cent a year ago due to unfavourable base effect. 

Auction Results 91 Days 182 Days 364 Days I. Notified Amount ₹8000 Crore ₹6000 Crore ₹6000 Crore II. Competitive Bids Received   (i)  Number 88 93 120 (ii) Amount ₹19775.550 Crore ₹17547 Crore ₹25880.030 Crore III. Cut-off price / Yield 98.3634 96.7259 93.6506 (YTM:6.6736%) (YTM:6.7885%) (YTM:6.7985%) IV. Competitive Bids Accepted   (i)  Number 40 47 45 (ii) Amount ₹7952.014 Crore ₹5964.270 Crore ₹5983.723 Crore V. Partial Allotment Percentage of Competitive Bids 55.29% 6.91% 24.68% (1 Bid) (1 Bid) (1 Bid)

I. T-Bill 91 days 182 days 364 days II. Total Face Value Notified ₹8,000 Crore ₹6,000 Crore ₹6,000 Crore III. Cut-off Price and Implicit Yield at Cut-Off Price 98.3634 (YTM:6.6736%) 96.7259 (YTM: 6.7885%) 93.6506 (YTM: 6.7985%)

Tenor 2-day Notified Amount (in ₹ crore) 75,000 Total amount of offers received (in ₹ crore) 7,000 Amount accepted (in ₹ crore) 7,000 Cut off Rate (%) 6.49 Weighted Average Rate (%) 6.49 Partial Acceptance Percentage of offers received at cut off rate NA