Research and Data

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of January 2026 are set out in Tables 1 to 7. Highlights: Lending Rates: • The weighted average lending rate (WALR) on fresh rupee loans of SCBs stood at 8.28 per cent in December 2025 (8.71 per cent in November 2025). • The WALR on outstanding rupee loans of SCBs declined to 9.06 per cent in December 2025 from 9.21 per cent in November 2025. • 1-Year median Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR) of SCBs moderated to 8.40 per cent in January 2026 from 8.45 per cent in December 2025.

The value of exports and imports of services during December 2025 are presented in the following table.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2025 2026 Variation Jan. 24 Jan. 16 Jan. 23 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 20495 20162 16817 -3345 -3678 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of December 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 14.4 per cent as on the fortnight ended December 31, 2025, compared to 11.1 per cent during the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (i.e., December 27, 2024). Highlights of the sectoral deployment of bank credit as on the fortnight ended December 31, 2025, are given below: • Credit to agriculture and allied activities registered a y-o-y growth of 12.1 per cent (12.5 per cent in the corresponding fortnight of the previous year).

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 10-Jan-2025# 31-Dec-2025 15-Jan-2026 10-Jan-2025# 31-Dec-2025 15-Jan-2026 I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 271703.78 340111.14 334594.98 276454.35 347493.56 342296.21** b) Borrowings from banks 143463.79 84009.60 80440.83 143532.02 84135.04 80507.15 c) Other demand & time 

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2025 2026 Variation Jan. 17 Jan. 09 Jan. 16 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 23623 13012 20162 7150 -3461 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Today, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the Report ‘State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2025-26’. The theme of this year’s Report is ‘Demographic Transition in India - Implications for State Finances’. It provides a comprehensive assessment of the finances of State governments for 2025-26 against the backdrop of actual and revised/provisional accounts for 2023-24 and 2024-25, respectively.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the fortnight ended January 15, 2026.

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) and Rupee Denominated Bonds (RDB) both, through Automatic Route and Approval Route, for the month of November 2025.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2025 2026 Variation Jan. 10 Jan. 02 Jan. 09 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 14620 35042 13012 -22030 -1608 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.