The increase in the use of e-money in India in future could have far reaching effect on payments habit as also on the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. In order to examine these issues, the Reserve Bank of India had set-up a working group comprising officials from market participants and the Reserve Bank of India. The Chairman of the working group was Mr. Zarir J. Cama, Chief Executive Officer, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The working group subm

The Negotiated Dealing System (NDS) will become operational from January 15, 2002. The system will operationalise, to begin with, by allowing members of Negotiated Dealing System (NDS) to put their bids electronically for repos and reverse repos under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF). In other words, from this date, the NDS members will not have to put in their bids/ applications in physical form for LAF auctions held daily by the Reserve Bank of India. This wa

In the Monetary & Credit Policy 2001-02, it was proposed that from June 2, 2001, all transactions in Government securities settled through the Subsidiary General Ledger (SGL)/Delivery versus Payment (DVP) system would be on T + 1 basis. The feedback from the market participants with whom Reserve Bank has had several rounds of consultation is that the date from which T + 1 settlement will be introduced for Subsidiary General Ledger settled transactions should be co

It may be recalled that Standing Committee on International Financial Standards and Codes was constituted in December 1999 in order to identify and monitor developments in global standards and codes, consider aspects of applicability of these standards to Indian financial system, periodically review the status and make available its reports to all concerned organisations in public or private sector. The Standing Committee chaired by Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of In

It may be recalled that the Governor, Reserve Bank of India constituted a Standing Committee on International Financial Standards and Codes in December 1999 in order to identify and monitor developments in global standards and codes, consider aspects of applicability of these standards to Indian financial system, periodically review the status and make available its reports to all concerned organisations in public or private sector. The Standing Committee chaired by D

The National Payments Council under the Chairmanship of Deputy Governor, Shri S.P.Talwar met on June 09, 2000 to discuss the latest developments in the Payments System and the future possibilities. The Council members welcomed the passing of the Information Technology (IT) Bill and the grant of one transponder on INSAT 3-B which will augment the capacity of the Indian Financial Network (INFINET). The Council reviewed the ongoing initiatives for implementing the Centra

The Information Technology applications in the banking and financial sector in India have grown sharply in recent years. IT can be leveraged to bring about significant improvements in a number of areas including decision making, house keeping, customer service, payment flows, etc., in the banking and financial sector. To ensure the accrual of optimal benefits, necessary human resources development measures and requisite steps to beef up security in IT use have to be t

On January 3, 2000, the first full working day of the year, the Reserve Bank of India, banks and financial institutions have been found to be working satisfactorily on the basis of the reports received.Reserve Bank of India The MICR Cheque processing centre at Mumbai using the state-of-the-art Mainframe has completed processing of at par items clearing successfully today. MICR cheque processing at National Clearing Centres of the RBI at Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and

On December 31, 1999 the state-of-the-art MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) cheque processing systems at Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and Calcutta continued to operate normally. The centres commenced the normal operations at around 19:00 hours and successfully rolled over to the Year 2000 without any disruption. During the rollover, the hardware, the operating system, the cheque processing application software and associated peripherals like the console, the ter

The MICR Cheque Processing Systems at the four National Clearing Cells of the Reserve Bank of India at the metropolitan centres at Calcutta, Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi have been replaced with Y2K compliant state-of-the-art IBM S/390 mainframe system based cheque processing solutions. The MICR cheque processing has become operational at the four National Clearing Cells. The cheques, presented at these four National Clearing Cells, are being processed on the new syst