The Reserve Bank of India has identified State Bank of India (SBI) and ICICI Bank as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs) in 2016 and has retained their bucketing structure as it was last year. The additional Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) requirement for these banks has already been phased-in from April 1, 2016 and would become fully effective from April 1, 2019. The additional CET1 requirement will be in addition to the capital conservation buffer. The update

(Amount in Billions of ₹) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS(Including RRBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 07-AUG-2015 22-JUL-2016* 05-AUG-2016* 07-AUG-2015 22-JUL-2016* 05-AUG-2016* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from bks. 1276.17 1438.97 1449.79 1332.13 1506.54 1517.03** b) Borrowings from banks 516.46 622.75 621.83 517.82 623.76 622.61 c) Other demand & time liabilities 56.07 73.8 73.87 56.15 73.8 73.87 II LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A) a) Deposits

"The current times are interesting, profitable, and challenging for the financial sector. Interesting because the level of competition is going to increase manifold, both for customers as well as for talent, transforming even the sleepiest areas in financial services; profitable because new technologies, information, and new techniques will open up vastly new business opportunities and customers; and challenging because competition and novelty constitute a particularl

The Reserve Bank of India has today placed on its website the Draft Circular on “Customer Protection – Limiting Liability of Customers in Unauthorised Electronic Banking Transactions”, for feedback. Suggestions/comments, if any, on the Draft Circular may be sent by post to the Chief General Manager, Department of Banking Regulation, Reserve Bank of India, Central Office, 12th Floor, Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Mumbai-400 001, or Please click here to send email on or bef

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set up a committee to look at the various facets of household finance in India and to benchmark India’s position vis-à-vis both the peer countries and advanced countries. The Committee will be chaired by Dr. Tarun Ramadorai, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Oxford and will have representation from financial sector regulators, namely, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Insurance Regulatory and Development A

“Initiating quick follow up and taking cases to logical conclusion by punishing the guilty is paramount to deter entities in future from carrying out unlawful activity. I hope ‘Sachet’ would help regulators in doing this as much as it would help members of public in depositing their hard earned money with genuine entities by giving them timely information about these entities.” Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India said this today while launching ‘Sac

(Amount in Billions of ₹) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 24-JUL-2015 08-JUL-2016 * 22-JUL-2016 * 24-JUL-2015 08-JUL-2016 * 22-JUL-2016 * I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from bks. 1288.55 1372.96 1438.97 1343.86 1440.12 1506.54 ** b) Borrowings from banks 405.1 617.3 622.75 405.87 621.53 623.76 c) Other demand & time liabilities 93.29 53.16 73.8 93.38 53.16 73.8 II LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A) a) Depos

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website, “Guidelines for ‘on tap’ Licensing of Universal Banks in the Private Sector”. Some of the key aspects of the Guidelines include: (i) resident individuals and professionals having 10 years of experience in banking and finance at a senior level are also eligible to promote universal banks; (ii) large industrial houses are excluded as eligible entities but are permitted to invest in the banks up to 10 per cent; (ii

The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹ 10 Million on UCO Bank for contravention of its instructions relating to opening of current account and providing bill discounting facilities to account holders without having any borrowing facility with the bank resulting in siphoning of funds. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in the Reserve Bank under the provisions of Section 47(A)(1)(c) read with Section 46(4)(i) of the Banking

PhotographsMeetings of the Supervisory Colleges of Bank of Baroda and Bank of India were held at Mumbai on July 25 and 26, 2016 respectively. Shri S.S. Mundra, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India inaugurated the proceedings of the Colleges. Twenty three supervisors from thirteen overseas banking supervisory authorities participated in the Supervisory College of Bank of Baroda on July 25, 2016. Nineteen supervisors from eleven overseas banking supervisory authoritie