Research and Data

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                      July-September of 2025-26.

The value of exports and imports of services during November 2025 are presented in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) July – 2025 33,745 (10.5) 17,296 (8.5) August – 2025 31,196 (2.9) 15,593 (-5.3) September – 2025 36,680 (12.7) 17,845 (7.9) October – 2025 35,167 (2.2) 17,729 (2.9)

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Urban Consumer Confidence Survey (UCCS). The January 2026 round of the survey is being launched. The survey seeks qualitative responses from households, regarding their sentiments on general economic situation, employment scenario, price level, households’ income and spending. The survey is conducted regularly in 19 cities, viz., Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). The January 2026 round of the survey is being launched. The survey aims at capturing subjective assessments on price movements and inflation, based on their individual consumption baskets, across 19 cities, viz., Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata

Today, the Reserve Bank released data relating to India’s International Investment Position for end-September 2025[1]. Key Features of India’s IIP in end-September 2025: • Net claims of non-residents on India declined by US$ 38.4 billion during Q2:2025-26 and stood at US$ 274.3 billion as at end-September 2025. It was a combined impact of decrease in foreign-owned assets in India (US$ 29.8 billion) and increase in Indian residents’ overseas financial assets (US$ 8.6 billion) during the quarter (Table 1).

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of November 2025, collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) which together account for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit by all SCBs, are set out in Statements I and II. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit grew by 11.4 per cent as on the fortnight ended November 28, 2025, compared to 10.6 per cent during the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (i.e., November 29, 2024).

Today, the Reserve Bank released the December 2025 edition of the Financial Stability Report (FSR), which reflects the collective assessment of the Sub-Committee of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) on the resilience of the Indian financial system and risks to financial stability.

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 13-DEC-2024# 28-NOV-2025 15-DEC-2025 13-DEC-2024# 28-NOV-2025 15-DEC-2025 LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 310793.89 322855.52 308549.36 315564.52 330192.04 315719.18** b) Borrowings from banks 131991.65 78658.89 83821.58 132026.65 78790.89 83903.92 c) Other demand & time liabilities 24423.19 31092.93 34245.87 24724.99 31559.27 34761.43

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Money Supply for the fortnight ended December 15, 2025.

Today, the Reserve Bank of India released its web publication entitled ‘Statistical Tables relating to Banks in India: 2024-25’ covering the activities of the Indian banking sector. 2. The publication presents entity-wise information on major items of liabilities and assets along with their maturity profile; income and expenses; select financial ratios, number of employees and details of priority sector advances for scheduled commercial banks (excluding regional rural banks). In addition, capital to risk weighted asset ratios (CRARs), non-performing assets (NPAs), exposure to sensitive sectors, contingent liabilities and unclaimed deposits are included. State wise distribution of consolidated balance sheet of rural co-operative banks are also presented.