The Reserve Bank has launched the 2023-24 round of its annual survey on ‘Foreign Liabilities and Assets of Mutual Funds and Asset Management Companies’. The survey collects the information from mutual fund companies and asset management companies on their external financial liabilities and assets as at end-March of the latest financial year. The survey results are disseminated in the public domain besides being used in compilation of India’s external sector statistics.

The value of exports and imports of services during April 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) January – 2024 31,023 (10.8) 14,850 (0.2)

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of May 2024 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 9.55 per cent in April 2024 (9.37 per cent in March 2024). The WALR on outstanding rupee loans of SCBs was at 9.83 per cent in April 2024 (9.85 per cent in March 2024).[1] 1-Year median Marginal Cost of fund-based Lending Rate (MCLR) of SCBs moved to 8.79 per cent in May 2024 from 8.85 per cen

Today, the Reserve Bank released its quarterly house price index (HPI)1(base: 2010-11=100) for Q4:2023-24, based on transaction-level data received from the registration authorities in ten major cities2. 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).

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation May 26 May 17 May 24 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 13742 17624 18822 1199 5080 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of April 2024[1] 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[2] registered a growth of 15.3 per cent in April 2024[3] as compared with 16.2 per cent a year ago.

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 19-May-23    03-MAY-2024 *    17-MAY-2024 *    19-May-23    03-MAY-2024 *    17-MAY-2024 * I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 243149.05    291055.4    289684.94    245652.1    292732.12    293567.66 ** b) Borrowings from banks 56459.38    167685.78    162652.29    56588.09    170176.71    162655.65 c) Other demand & time liabilities 59167.93    76526.45    74441.56    59826.67    76795.5    74668.36 II LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A) a) Deposits (other than from banks) 18376356.29    20938381 (20835743.37)    20814091.81 (20714644.03)    18815257.1    21400918.13 (21298280.50)    21272866.45 (21173418.67) 

Today, the Reserve Bank of India released its Annual Report for 2023-24, a statutory report of its Central Board of Directors. The Report covers the working and functions of the Reserve Bank of India for the period April 2023 - March 2024.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended May 24, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended May 17, 2024.

Today, the Reserve Bank released the data[1] relating to financial performance of non-government non-financial (NGNF) foreign direct investment (FDI) companies in India during 2022-23 (https://cimsdbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/#/dbie/reports/Statistics/Corporate%20Sector/Finances%20of%20FDI%20Companies) based on audited annual accounts of 2,272 companies, which reported in the Indian Accounting Standards (Ind-AS) format for three accounting years from 2020-21 to 2022-23. Their economic sector classification is based on their principal business activity reported in MGT-7 form (https://www.mca.gov.in/MinistryV2/companyformsdownload.html) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, which is the primary source of these data. The paid-up capital (PUC) of these companies amounted to ₹5,44,014 crore, which accounted for 56.9 per cent of the total PUC of FDI companies that had reported in the 2022-23 round of the Reserve Bank’s annual census of foreign liabilities and assets of Indian direct investment companies.