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Reserve Bank of India announces the auction of Government of India Treasury Bills as per the following details: Sr. No. Treasury Bill Notified Amount (in ₹ Crore) Auction Date Settlement Date 1 91 Days 8,000 September 04, 2024 (Wednesday) September 05, 2024 (Thursday) 2 182 Days 6,000 3 364 Days 6,000 Total 20,000

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated August 26, 2024, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2,10,000/- (Rupees Two Lakh Ten Thousand only) on Cent Bank Home Finance Limited (the company) for non-compliance with certain provisions of ‘Reserve Bank of India (Know Your Customer (KYC)) Directions, 2016’ issued by RBI. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in RBI conferred under section 52A of the National Housing Bank Act, 1987

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 2024 are set out in Tables 1 to 7. Highlights: Lending Rates:

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated August 26, 2024, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2,68,30,000 (Rupees Two crore sixty eight lakh and thirty thousand only) on UCO Bank (the bank) for contravention of provisions of section 26A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (BR Act), and non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Interest Rate on Advances’, ‘Opening of Current Accounts by Banks - Need for Discipline’, ‘Interest Rate on Deposits’ and ‘Frauds classification and reporting by commercial banks and select FIs’.

The value of exports and imports of services during July 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports)

Today, the Reserve Bank released its quarterly house price index (HPI) (base: 2010-11=100) for Q1:2024-25, based on transaction-level data received from the registration authorities in ten major cities . Time series data on all-India and city-wise HPIs are available at the Bank’s database on Indian economy (DBIE) portal (https://cimsdbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/#/dbie/home> Statistics > Real Sector > Prices & Wages).Today, the Reserve Bank released its quarterly house price index (HPI) (base: 2010-11=100) for Q1:2024-25, based on transaction-level data received from the registration authorities in ten major cities . Time series data on all-India and city-wise HPIs are available at the Bank’s database on Indian economy (DBIE) portal (https://cimsdbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/#/dbie/home> Statistics > Real Sector > Prices & Wages).

Today, the Reserve Bank released data on the performance of the private corporate sector during the first quarter of 2024-25 drawn from abridged quarterly financial results of 2,934 listed non-government non-financial companies. These also include comparable data for Q1:2023-24 and Q4:2023-24 to enable study of sequential (q-o-q) and annual change (y-o-y)Today, the Reserve Bank released data on the performance of the private corporate sector during the first quarter of 2024-25 drawn from abridged quarterly                    financial results of 2,934 listed non-government non-financial companies.                These also                 include comparable data for Q1:2023-24 and Q4:2023-24 to enable study of sequential (q-o-q) and annual change (y-o-y)

Reserve Bank of India – Bulletin Weekly Statistical Supplement – Extract 1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Aug. 25 Aug. 16 Aug. 23 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 16470 26767 26802 36 10332 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Central Government has nominated Shri Nagaraju Maddirala, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India as a Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India vice Dr. Vivek Joshi. The nomination of Shri Nagaraju Maddirala is effective from August 30, 2024 and until further orders.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of July 2024 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 credit registered a growth of 15.1 per cent in July 2024 as compared with 14.7 per cent a year ago.