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The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended April 26, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended April 19, 2024.

Auction Results 91 Days 182 Days 364 Days I. Notified Amount ₹12000 Crore ₹7000 Crore ₹8000 Crore II. Competitive Bids Received (i)  Number 70 104 116 (ii) Amount ₹19168 Crore ₹20425 Crore ₹22440 Crore

I. T-Bill 91 days 182 days 364 days II. Total Face Value Notified ₹12,000 Crore ₹7,000 Crore ₹8,000 Crore III. Cut-off Price and Implicit Yield at Cut-Off Price 98.2854 (YTM: 6.9972%) 96.6090 (YTM: 7.0393%) 93.4053 (YTM: 7.0797%) IV. Total Face Value Accepted ₹12,000 Crore ₹7,000 Crore ₹8,000 Crore

(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 - - B. Term Segment I. Notice Money**

Government of India has announced the sale (re-issue) of Government Securities, as detailed below, through auctions to be held on May 03, 2024.

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 4,86,587.79 6.63 1.00-7.25 I. Call Money 14,737.60 6.67 5.40-6.80 II. Triparty Repo 3,05,335.45 6.63 6.00-7.00 III. Market Repo 1,65,640.74 6.61 1.00-7.00 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 874.00 6.79 6.75-7.25

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of April 2024 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 October-December of 2023-24.

The Reserve Bank of India has today placed on its website “Guidance Note on Operational Risk Management and Operational Resilience’’ (hereafter ‘Guidance Note’). This Guidance Note aligns the Reserve Bank of India’s regulatory guidance with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) Principles, viz., (a) ‘Revisions to the Principles for the Sound Management of Operational Risk’ and (b) ‘Principles for Operational Resilience’ (both issued in March 2021), while adopting the global best practices including those on operational resilience.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of March 2024[1] 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 credit[2] registered a growth of 16.3 per cent in March 2024[3] as compared with 15.4 per cent a year ago. Highlights of the sectoral deployment of bank credit3 are given below: Credit growth to agriculture and allied activities was robust at 20.1 per cent (y-o-y) in March 2024 (15.4 per cent a year ago). Credit to industry grew by 8.5 per cent (y-o-y) in March 2024 as compared with 5.6 per cent in March 2023. Among major industries, growth in credit (y-o-y) to ‘chemicals & chemical products’, ‘food processing’, and ‘infrastructure’ accelerated in March 2024 as compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, while that to ‘basic metal & metal products’ moderated. Credit growth to services sector improved to 20.2 per cent (y-o-y) in March 2024 (from 19.6 per cent a year ago), with higher growth in credit to ‘transport operators’ and ‘commercial real estate’. Credit growth to ‘non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)’ and ‘trade’, however, decelerated in March 2024 as compared with March 2023.