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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated January 20, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹65 lakh (Rupees Sixty Five Lakh only) on Equitas Small Finance Bank Limited (the bank) for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Levy of Foreclosure Charges/Pre-payment Penalty on Floating Rate Term Loans’ and ‘Credit Flow to Agriculture – Collateral free agricultural loans’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Section 46(4)(i) of the Banking

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during January 2025 are set out in Tables 1 to 7.

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 2024-25.

The value of exports and imports of services during December 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) October – 2024 34,309 (22.3) 17,215 (27.9) November – 2024 32,014 (13.9) 17,229 (26.0) December – 2024 36,857 (16.5) 17,781 (13.8) Notes: (i) 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 of India (RBI) has, by an order dated January 20, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹3.10 lakh (Rupees Three Lakh Ten Thousand only) on Aptus Finance India Private Limited (the company) for non-compliance with certain provisions of the ‘Non-Banking Financial Company - Systemically Important Non-Deposit taking Company and Deposit taking Company (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2016’ issued by RBI, relating to ‘Governance Issues’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 58G read with clause (aa) of sub-section (5) of Section 58B of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.

Reserve Bank of India announces the auction of Government of India Treasury Bills as per the following details: Sr. No. Treasury Bill Notified Amount (in ₹ Crore) Auction Date Settlement Date 1 91 Days 12,000 February 05, 2025 (Wednesday) February 06, 2025 (Thursday) 2 182 Days 8,000 3 364 Days 8,000 Total 28,000

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. 2. Based on assessment of the liquidity conditions, it is decided that the notified amount for the daily Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auction to be conducted on February 03, 2025, Monday, will be ₹75,000 crore.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2024 2025 Variation Jan. 26 Jan. 17 Jan. 24 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government - 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 12810 23623 20495 -3128 7685 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of December 20241 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, are set out in Statements I and II. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit2 as on the fortnight ended December 27, 20243 grew at 12.4 per cent as compared to 15.8 per cent for the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (December 29, 2023).

Auction Results 6.79% GS 2031 6.79% GOI SGrB 2034 7.34% GS 2064 I. Notified Amount ₹10,000 crore ₹5,000 crore ₹15,000 crore II. Underwriting Notified Amount ₹10,000 crore ₹5,000 crore ₹15,000 crore III. Competitive Bids Received (i) Number 145 59 219 (ii) Amount ₹ 26468.000 Crore ₹ 7718.895 Crore ₹ 31118.000 Crore IV. Cut-off price / Yield 100.46 100.67 103.73 (YTM:6.7042%) (YTM:6.6941%) (YTM:7.0570%) V. Competitive Bids Accepted

6.79% GS 2031 6.79% GOI SGrB 2034 7.34% GS 2064 I. Notified Amount ₹10,000 crore ₹5,000 crore ₹15,000 crore II. Cut off Price (₹) / Implicit Yield at cut-off 100.46/6.7042% 100.67/6.6941% 103.73/7.0570% III. Amount accepted in the auction ₹10,000 crore ₹1,054.491 crore ₹15,000 crore IV. Devolvement on Primary Dealers NIL ₹3,945.509 crore NIL

Today, the Reserve Bank conducted a USD/INR Buy Sell swap auction for a notified amount of USD 5 billion as announced vide press release dated January 28, 2025.

Tenor 3-day Notified Amount (in ₹ crore) 1,00,000 Total amount of bids received (in ₹ crore) 1,28,059 Amount allotted (in ₹ crore) 1,00,013 Cut off Rate (%) 6.51 Weighted Average Rate (%) 6.52 Partial Allotment Percentage of bids received at cut off rate (%) 51.04

In the underwriting auction conducted on January 31, 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:

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 5,45,691.61 6.56 4.00-6.95 I. Call Money 14,941.07 6.58 5.10-6.65 II. Triparty Repo 3,85,768.80 6.55 6.49-6.75 III. Market Repo 1,43,070.44 6.59 4.00-6.95 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 1,911.30 6.76 6.75-6.80

I. SUMMARY OMO PURCHASE RESULTS Aggregate Amount (Face value) notified by RBI : ₹20,000 crore Total amount offered (Face value) by participants : ₹1,20,626 crore Total amount accepted (Face value) by RBI : ₹20,020 crore

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated January 28, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2.00 lakh (Rupees Two Lakh only) on The Kosamba Mercantile Co-operative Bank Ltd., Dist. Surat, Gujarat (the bank) for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Placement of Deposits with Other Banks by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks’ and ‘Know Your Customer (KYC)’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred in RBI under 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 January 27, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2.10 lakh (Rupees Two Lakh Ten Thousand only) on Shree Savli Nagrik Sahakari Bank Ltd., Dist. Vadodara, Gujarat (the bank) for contravention of provisions of Section 26A read with Section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (BR Act) and for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Investment by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks’, ‘Know Your Customer (KYC)’ and ‘Membership of Credit Information Companies (CICs) by Co-operative Banks’. 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 BR Act and Section 25 of the Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act, 2005.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated January 28, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2.00 lakh (Rupees Two Lakh only) on The Vadali Nagarik Sahakari Bank Ltd., Dist. Sabarkantha, Gujarat (the bank) for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Loans and Advances to directors, relatives

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated January 28, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹4.00 lakh (Rupees Four Lakh only) on The Odisha State Co-operative Bank Ltd., (the bank) for non-compliance with the provisions of Section 9 and Section 26A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (BR Act). This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Section 46(4)(i) and 56 of BR Act.