Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of August 2025 are set out in Tables 1 to 7. Highlights: Lending Rates: • The weighted average lending rate (WALR) on fresh rupee loans of SCBs stood at 8.80 per cent in July 2025 (8.62 per cent in June 2025). • The WALR on outstanding rupee

The value of exports and imports of services during July 2025 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) April – 2025 - 16,909 (0.9) May – 2025 32,452 (9.6) 16,694 (-1.1) June – 2025 32,105 (12.0) 15,897 (5.0)

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2024 2025 Variation Aug. 23 Aug. 15 Aug. 22 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government - 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 26802 34130 27463 -6667 661 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Today, the Reserve Bank published its annual publication “Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy, 2024–25 (HBS)”. The 27th edition in the series offers detailed time-series data on the Indian economy. It includes 244 statistical tables on macroeconomic and financial data such as national income, prices, money, banking, markets, public finances, foreign trade, balance of payments, and select socio-economic indicators. This edition has been released earlier than the scheduled date.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of July 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 July 25, 2025, compared to 13.6 per cent during the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (i.e., July 26, 2024).

Today, the Reserve Bank released its web publication entitled ‘Quarterly Basic Statistical Return (BSR)-1 on Credit by Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) June 2025 on its ‘Database on Indian Economy’ portal (https://data.rbi.org.in Homepage > Publications). It captures various characteristics of bank credit such as occupation/activity and organisational sector of the borrower, type of account and interest rates based on account-level reporting. Data reported by SCBs {excluding Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)} are presented for bank groups, population groups and states. Highlights: • Bank credit growth (y-o-y) decelerated to 9.9 per cent in June 2025 from 15.0 per cent (net of merger ) in June 2024 (Chart - I).

Today, the Reserve Bank released the web publication ‘Quarterly Basic Statistical Return (BSR)-2 on Deposits with Scheduled Commercial Banks – June 2025 ’ on its ‘Database on Indian Economy’ portal (https://data.rbi.org.in Homepage > Publications). Scheduled commercial banks (SCBs), excluding regional rural banks, report quarterly branch-wise data on type of deposits (current, savings and term), its institutional sector wise ownership, age wise distribution of deposits pertaining to individuals,

Today, the Reserve Bank released the August 2025 issue of its monthly Bulletin. The Bulletin includes monetary policy statement, three speeches, five articles and current statistics. The five articles are: I. State of the Economy; II. Private Corporate Investment: Growth in 2024-25 and Outlook for 2025-26; III. Equity Mutual Funds: Transforming India’s Savings Landscape; IV. EV Policies and Two-Wheeler EV Adoption: Evidence from Indian States; and V. Horticultural Diversification: A Pathway to Agricultural Resilience.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week

Today, the Reserve Bank released the data on performance of the private corporate sector during the first quarter of 2025-26, drawn from abridged quarterly financial results of 3,079 listed non-government non-financial