Press Releases

In the underwriting auction conducted on May 02, 2025, for Additional Competitive Underwriting (ACU) of the undernoted Government securities, the Reserve Bank of India has set the cut-off rates for underwriting commission payable to Primary Dealers as given below: Nomenclature of the Security Notified Amount (₹ crore) Minimum Underwriting Commitment (MUC) Amount (₹ crore) Additional

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 6,03,530.26 5.96 0.01-6.30 I. Call Money 17,990.81 5.94 5.00-6.05 II. Triparty Repo 3,94,904.10 5.95 5.70-6.05 III. Market Repo 1,89,156.35 5.99 0.01-6.30 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 1,479.00 6.15 5.95-6.25

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of April 2025 are set out in Tables 1 to 7. Highlights: Lending Rates:

The value of exports and imports of services during March 2025 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) January – 2025 34,726 (12.0) 16,706 (12.6) February – 2025 31,625 (11.6) 14,506 (-4.8) March – 2025 35,600 (18.6) 17,475 (5.3) Notes: (i) Data for January-March are provisional; and (ii) Figures in parentheses are growth rates over the corresponding month of the previous year which have been revised on the basis of balance of payments statistics.

The Reserve Bank today released data on India’s invisibles as per the IMF’s Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) format for October-December of 2024-25.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended April 25, 2025 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended April 18, 2025.

As announced vide the Press Release 2024-2025/1933 dated January 15, 2025, the Reserve Bank will be conducting daily Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auctions on all working days in Mumbai with reversal taking place on the next working day, until further notice.

On a review of current and evolving liquidity conditions, it has been decided to conduct a Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auction on May 02, 2025, Friday, as under: Sl. No. Notified Amount (₹ crore) Tenor (day) Window Timing Date of Reversal 1 25,000 14 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM May 16, 2025 (Friday) 2. The operational guidelines for the auction will be same as given in Reserve Bank’s Press Release 2021-2022/1572 dated January 20, 2022.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of March 2025 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks (SCBs), accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all SCBs, are set out in Statements I and II. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit as on the fortnight ended March 21, 2025, grew by 12.0 per cent as compared to 16.3 per cent during the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (i.e., March 22, 2024).

Auction Results 91 Days 182 Days 364 Days I. Notified Amount ₹9,000 Crore ₹5,000 Crore ₹5,000 Crore II. Competitive Bids Received (i) Number 68 78 87 (ii) Amount ₹21082.255 Crore ₹19716.700 Crore ₹23359.200 Crore III. Cut-off price / Yield 98.5495 97.1300 94.4301