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On a review of current and evolving liquidity conditions, it has been decided to conduct a Variable Rate Repo auction on January 12, 2024, Friday, as under:

The Reserve Bank on Jan 10, 2024 held a Conference in Mumbai for the Heads of Assurance Functions (i.e., Chief Compliance Officers, Chief Risk Officers and Heads of Internal Audit) of all Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs). The theme of the Conference was ‘Resilient Financial System – Role of Effective Assurance Functions’. This is part of the series of supervisory engagements kicked-off by the Governor in May 2023 with the Conference for the Directors of Public and Private Sector Banks on the theme of ‘Governance in Banks – Driving Sustainable Growth and Stability’. Deputy Governors Shri M. Rajeshwar Rao and Shri Swaminathan J. addressed the participants. Executive Directors representing the RBI’s Department of Supervision, Department of Regulation and Enforcement Department, and other senior officials, also participated in the Conference.

The following 5 Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) have surrendered the Certificate of Registration (CoR) granted to them by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The RBI, in exercise of powers conferred on it under Section 45-IA (6) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, has therefore cancelled their CoR.

(Amount in ₹ crore)  SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 16-Dec-22 01-Dec-2023* 15-Dec-2023* 16-Dec-22 01-Dec-2023* 15-Dec-2023* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 201266.75 249012.9 276840.69 203686.16 252853.53 280287.70 **  b) Borrowings from banks 59956.92 200300.52 192669.22 60125.92 200371.37 192698.11  c) Other demand & time liabilities 54667.28 71526.84 70471.57 55264.53 72234.31 71176.89 II LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A) a) Deposits (other than from banks) 17354379.08 19886495.7 (1,97,60,403.24) 19791556.74 (1,96,67,586.27) 17775361.5 20320773.77 (2,01,94,681.31) 20228915.17

The facility of deposit / exchange of ₹ 2000 banknotes at Mumbai Regional Office will not be available on Friday, January 12, 2024, due to operational reasons. The facility will resume on Monday, January 15, 2024, which is the next working day. 

Government of India has announced the sale (re-issue) of Government Securities, as detailed below, through auctions to be held on January 12, 2024. As per the extant scheme of underwriting notified on November 14, 2007, the amounts of Minimum Underwriting Commitment (MUC) and the minimum bidding commitment under Additional Competitive Underwriting (ACU) for the underwriting auction, applicable to each Primary Dealer (PD), are as under:

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate  Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 494,509.05 6.77 5.00-8.60 I. Call Money 10,485.10 6.75 5.00-6.85 II. Triparty Repo 348,971.10 6.76 6.75-6.80 III. Market Repo 134,902.85 6.80 5.11-6.89 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 150.00 7.64 7.20-8.60

Government of India announces the conversion/switch of its securities through auction for an aggregate amount of ₹18,000 crore (face value). The security-wise details of the conversion/switch are given as under: Date of Auction  Source Securities Amount (FV) of Source Securities (In ₹ crore) Destination Securities January 15, 2024 (Monday) 8.40% GS 2024 (Maturing on July 28, 2024) 1,000 8.97% GS 2030 (Maturing on Dec 05, 2030) 8.40% GS 2024 (Maturing on July 28, 2024) 1,000 6.76% GS 2061

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended January 05, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended December 29, 2023. Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) 

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period December 18 – December 22, 2023.