The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated August 14, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1 lakh (Rupees One Lakh only) on Ayodhya Finlease Limited (the company) for non-compliance with certain provisions of 'Master Direction - Non-Banking Financial Company – Non-Systemically Important Non-Deposit taking Company (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2016' read with ‘Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Company - Scale Based Regulation) Directions, 2023’ issued by RBI. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 58G(1)(b) read with Section 58B(5)(aa) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on Overseas Direct Investment, both under Automatic Route and the Approval Route, for the month of July 2025.

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 09-Aug-2024 25-Jul-2025* 08-Aug-2025* 09-Aug-2024 25-Jul-2025* 08-Aug-2025* LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 291422.53 342422.14 341955.78 295618.64 347963.84 349533.04** b) Borrowings from banks 130962.87 105206.09 100840.03 130982.37 105216.43 100849.93 c) Other demand & time liabilities 76963.73 22326.92 25575.97 77260.46 22827.68 26107.24 LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A) a) Deposits (other than from banks) 21329643.09 23349826.99 23473888.12 21780903.56 23843714.65 23970007.08

Government of India has announced the sale (re-issue) of Government Securities, as detailed below, through auctions to be held on August 22, 2025 (Friday). As per the extant scheme of underwriting commitment notified on November 14, 2007, the amounts of Minimum Underwriting Commitment (MUC) and the minimum bidding commitment under Additional Competitive Underwriting (ACU) auction,

Tenor 1-day Notified Amount (in ₹ crore) 50,000 Total amount of bids received (in ₹ crore) 31,025 Amount allotted (in ₹ crore) 31,025 Cut off Rate (%) 5.51 Weighted Average Rate (%) 5.51 Partial Allotment Percentage of bids received at cut off rate (%) NA

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 6,19,310.65 5.26 0.01-6.45 I. Call Money 16,699.90 5.47 4.75-5.55 II. Triparty Repo 4,00,321.15 5.40 5.34-5.75 III. Market Repo 1,98,968.05 4.96 0.01-5.80 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 3,321.55 5.56 5.50-6.45

On a review of current and evolving liquidity conditions, it has been decided to conduct a Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auction on Thursday, August 21, 2025, as under:

Please refer to instructions on Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) as contained in paragraph 5.15.3 of the Master Circular DOR.CAP.REC.2/21.06.201/2025-26 dated April 1, 2025 on ‘Basel III Capital Regulations’. Reserve Bank has released today the draft circular on Counterparty Credit Risk: Add-on factors for computation of Potential Future Exposure – Revised Instructions which modifies the aforementioned instructions.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended August 15, 2025 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended August 08, 2025.

[Under Section 45ZL of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934] The fifty-sixth meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), constituted under Section 45ZB of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, was held during August 4 to 6, 2025. 2. The meeting was chaired by Shri Sanjay Malhotra, Governor and was attended by all the members – Dr. Nagesh Kumar, Director and Chief Executive, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi; Shri Saugata Bhattacharya, Economist, Mumbai; Professor Ram Singh, Director, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi; Dr. Poonam Gupta, Deputy Governor in charge of monetary policy and Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Executive Director (the officer of the Reserve Bank nominated by the Central Board under Section 45ZB(2)(c) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934).