Regulating Commercial Banking

In pursuance of the announcement made in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today issued the following draft Directions for public comments:

In terms of para 7(b) of the captioned Directions dated July 29, 2025, it has been stipulated that the Reserve Bank may, in consultation with the Government of India, by a notification, exempt certain Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) from the scope of the above Directions (except for paragraph 5 – “General Requirement”), and the previous circulars dated December 19, 2023 and March 27, 2024 issued on the matter.

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 04-Oct-2024 19-Sep-2025* 03-Oct-2025* 04-Oct-2024 19-Sep-2025* 03-Oct-2025* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 287920.78 319607.38 318430.38 292252.74 327583.51 326733.06** b) Borrowings from banks 127899.61 84796.98 84733.28 127950.17 84841.98 84761.78 c) Other demand & time liabilities 22225.29 27486.35 28435.54 22565.39 27991.42 28945.86

The Reserve Bank has constantly endeavoured to optimise its regulatory framework with a focus inter alia on reducing the regulatory burden and compliance costs, apart from timely re-evaluation of the currency of existing instructions. Pursuant to the above, the Reserve Bank has undertaken a comprehensive exercise of consolidating the regulatory instructions currently administered by the Department of Regulation, on ‘as is’ basis. The existing universe of regulatory instructions issued up to October 9, 2025 have been consolidated into 238 Master Directions, across 11 types of regulated entities on up to 30 functions / areas. Consequently, approximately 9000 circulars (including Master Circulars / Master Directions) administered by the Department of Regulation will be repealed.

In pursuance of the announcement made in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated October 01, 2025, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today issued the following draft Directions: A. Draft Reserve Bank of India (Scheduled Commercial Banks - Capital Charge for Credit Risk – Standardised Approach) Directions, 2025 The proposed Directions seek to implement one of the key elements of the global reforms implemented by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), suitably tailored to the Indian context. The Directions amend the existing standardised approach fram

In pursuance of the announcement made in the Statement on Developmental and Regulatory Policies dated December 08, 2023, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today issued the draft regulatory framework, for public comments, on lending to related parties by various regulated entities (REs), as enumerated below: i. Reserve Bank of India (Commercial Banks – Lending to Related Parties) Directions, 2025 ii. Reserve Bank of India (Small Finance Banks – Lending to Related Parties) Directions, 2025 iii. Reserve Bank of India (Regional Rural Banks – Lending to Related Parties) Directions, 2025 iv. Reserve Bank of India (Local Area Banks – Lending to Related Parties) Directions, 2025 v. Reserve Bank of India (Urban Co-operative Banks – Lending to Related Parties) Directions, 2025

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 20-Sep-2024 05-Sep-2025* 19-Sep-2025* 20-Sep-2024 05-Sep-2025* 19-Sep-2025* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 305203.01 322323.47 319556.99 309831.75 329890.75 327533.12** b) Borrowings from banks 134095.86 96816.68 84796.98 134219.35 96885.30 84841.98 c) Other demand & time liabilities 22841.08 27734.75 26959.04 23153.09 28235.86 27464.11 II LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A) a) Deposits (other than from banks) 21505667.14 23668910.14 23545570.85 21956319.68 24164674.52 24042840.13 i) Demand 2498373.27 2891510.19 2847059.08 2546570.84 2942733.86 2896921.75 ii) Time 19007293.88 20777399.95 20698511.76 19409748.85 21221940.66 21145918.38 b) Borrowings @ 879625.90 816568.99 858518.19 883958.80 820898.80 863263.69 c) Other demand & time liabilities 1031197.11 1115400.14 1074848.64 1045153.26 1131382.59 1090461.02

Analysis of the performance under the Citizen’s Charter during the month of September 2025 has been carried out and the summary thereof is given below –

The Reserve Bank through its public awareness initiatives, has been encouraging members of public to activate their inoperative accounts and claim their unclaimed deposits from the banks. In this endeavour, to encourage the banks to actively pursue customers/ depositors for re-activation of their inoperative accounts and return of their unclaimed amounts lying with Depositor Education and Awareness (DEA) Fund, the Reserve Bank of India today announced a ‘Scheme for Facilitating Accelerated Payout - Inoperative Accounts and Unclaimed Deposits’. The Scheme aims to reduce both the stock of existing unclaimed deposits and fresh accretion of flows to the DEA Fund. It will run for a period of one year, viz., October 01, 2025 to September 30, 2026.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today issued seven Directions/Circulars, proposing to amend some of the extant Directions/Circulars applicable to banks and other regulated entities. While three of these amendments come into effect immediately (Part A), public comments are solicited on the other four (Part B).