Today, the Reserve Bank released its web publication entitled ‘Quarterly Basic Statistical Returns (BSR)-1: Outstanding Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) - September 2023’ on its Database on Indian Economy (DBIE) portal1 (web-link: https://dbieold.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=BsrPublications#!12). It captures various characteristics of bank credit such as occupation/activity and organisational sector of the borrower, type of account and interest rates based on account-level reporting2. Data reported by 90 SCBs (excluding Regional Rural Banks) are presented for bank groups, population groups and states3.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item    2022    2023    Variation Nov. 25    Nov. 17    Nov. 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    2944    17338    16275    -1062    13331 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The value of exports and imports of services during October 2023 is given in the following table.  International Trade in Services (US$ Million) Month    Receipts (Exports)    Payments (Imports) July – 2023    26,228 (8.1)    13,754 (-2.2) August – 2023    28,719 (8.4)    15,103

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs)    ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 18-Nov-22 03-NOV-2023* 17-NOV-2023* 18-Nov-22    03-NOV-2023* 17-NOV-2023* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 197683.51 242686.81 241123.31 200234.72 246100.18 244489.89 **  b) Borrowings from banks 59717.51 195603.02 186866.5 59825.5 195669.28 186961.73 c) Other demand & time liabilities 52717.05 72833.37 72004.03 53280.8    73572.49 72619.52

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of November 2023 are set out in Tables 1 to 7.

Today, the Reserve Bank released its quarterly house price index (HPI)1 (base: 2010-11=100) for Q2:2023-24, 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://dbieold.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=statistics > Real Sector > Price & Wages> Quarterly).

Today, the Reserve Bank released data on the performance of the private corporate sector during the second quarter of 2023-24 drawn from abridged quarterly financial results of 2,835 listed non-government non-financial companies. These include data for Q2:2022-23 and Q1:2023-24 to enable comparison (web-link

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Money Supply for the fortnight ended November 17, 2023 Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) Press Release: 2023-2024/664

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended November 24, 2023. Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) Press Release: 2023-2024/1368

Today, the Reserve Bank of India releases Volume 43, No.2, 2022 of its Occasional Papers, a research journal containing contributions from its staff. This issue contains three articles and two book reviews.  Articles:  1. Cash versus Digital Payment Transactions in India: Decoding the Currency Demand Paradox