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On a review of the current and evolving liquidity conditions, it has been decided to conduct a Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR) auction on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, as under:

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been publishing a composite Reserve Bank of India – Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) since January 1, 2021 with March 2018 as base to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country. The index for March 2025 stands

Government of India (GoI) has announced the sale (re-issue) of two dated securities for a notified amount of ₹32,000 crore as per the following details:

The Reserve Bank of India (RBl) has, by an order dated July 23, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2.50 lakh (Rupees Two Lakh Fifty Thousand only) on Smriti Nagrik Sahakari Bank Maryadit, Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh) (the bank), for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Comprehensive Cyber Security Framework for Primary (Urban) Cooperative Banks (UCBs) – A Graded Approach’ and ‘Know Your Customer (KYC)’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Sections 46(4)(i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated July 21, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1 lakh (Rupees One Lakh only) on The Batlagundu Co-operative Urban Bank Limited, Tamil Nadu (the bank) for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy – Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks (UCBs)’ and specific directions issued by RBI under ‘Supervisory Action Framework (SAF)’

The Reserve Bank has released the draft Master Direction on Business Authorization for Co-operative Banks. The comments on the draft Directions are invited from public/stakeholders till August 25, 2025. Comments/feedback may be submitted through the respective link under the ‘Connect 2 Regulate’ Section available on the RBI’s website or may alternatively be forwarded to:

MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 0.00 - - I. Call Money 0.00 - - II. Triparty Repo 0.00 - - III. Market Repo 0.00 - - IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 0.00 - -

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 0.00 - - I. Call Money 0.00 - - II. Triparty Repo 0.00 - - III. Market Repo 0.00 - - IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 0.00 - -

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 6,00,423.27 5.35 4.75-6.40 I. Call Money 17,742.32 5.39 4.75-5.45 II. Triparty Repo 3,88,181.05 5.32 5.20-5.40 III. Market Repo 1,92,068.35 5.39 5.00-5.50 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 2,431.55 5.58 5.50-6.40

The Central Government has nominated Ms. Anuradha Thakur, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India as a Director on the Central Board of Reserve Bank of India vice Shri Ajay Seth. The nomination of Ms. Anuradha Thakur is effective from July 24, 2025 and until further orders.

In terms of GOI Notification F.No.4(20)-W&M/2017 dated July 06, 2017 (SGB 2017-18 Series-II - Issue date July 28, 2017) on Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme, the Gold Bond shall be repayable on the expiration of eight years from the date of issue of the Gold Bonds. Accordingly, the final redemption date of the above tranche shall be July 28, 2025.

The following State Governments have offered to sell stock by way of auction, for an aggregate amount of ₹30,000 Crore (Face Value). Sr. No. State Amount to be raised (₹ Crore) Tenor (Year) Type of Auction 1. Assam 500 07 Yield 2. Haryana 1000 14 Yield 1000 15 Yield 3. Himachal Pradesh 1000 22 Yield

The Government of India has announced the buyback of its Securities through auction for an aggregate amount of ₹30,000 crore (face value). The security-wise details of the buyback are as under:

Reserve Bank of India announces the auction of Government of India Treasury Bills as per the following details: Sr. No. Treasury Bill Notified Amount (₹ crore) Auction Date Settlement Date 1 91-Day 10,000 July 30, 2025 (Wednesday) July 31, 2025 (Thursday) 2 182-Day 6,000 3 364-Day 5,000 Total 21,000

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2024 2025 Variation Jul. 19 Jul. 11 Jul. 18 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government - 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 19805 20431 26294 5864 6489 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

(Amount in ₹ Crore) Auction Results 5.91% GS 2028 6.33% GS 2035 I. Notified Amount 6,000 30,000 II. Competitive Bids Received (i) Number 98 402 (ii) Amount 24,453.000 74,694.004 III. Cut-off price / Yield 100.27 99.95 (YTM: 5.8061%) (YTM: 6.3352%) IV. Competitive Bids Accepted

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 12-Jul-2024 27-Jun-2025* 11-Jul-2025* 12-Jul-2024 27-Jun-2025* 11-Jul-2025* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 277173.40 371106.12 341404.91 281152.83 376973.30 347254.50** b) Borrowings from banks 137361.61 100640.87 95555.56 137371.11 100646.66 95560.46 c) Other demand & time liabilities 75090.42 24746.46 22524.43 75387.79 25198.77 23038.31

5.91% GS 2028 6.33% GS 2035 I. Notified Amount ₹6,000 crore ₹30,000 crore II. Cut off Price (₹) / Implicit Yield at cut-off 100.27/5.8061% 99.95/6.3352% III. Amount accepted in the auction ₹6,000 crore ₹30,000 crore IV. Devolvement on Primary Dealers NIL NIL

Tenor 7-day Notified Amount (in ₹ crore) 1,25,000 Total amount of offers received (in ₹ crore) 1,42,264 Amount accepted (in ₹ crore) 1,25,008 Cut off Rate (%) 5.49 Weighted Average Rate (%) 5.48 Partial Acceptance Percentage of offers received at cut off rate 73.60

In the underwriting auction conducted on July 25, 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 Competitive Underwriting Amount Accepted (₹ crore) Total Amount underwritten (₹ crore) ACU Commission Cut-off rate (Paise per ₹100) 5.91% GS 2028 6,000 3,003 2,997 6,000 0.05 6.33% GS 2035 30,000 15,015 14,985 30,000 0.12