In a farewell message, Das expressed gratitude for the opportunity to serve the nation and acknowledged the support he received during his term.
The RBI reduced the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 0.5% (50 basis points) to 4%.
In October, India's retail inflation surged to a 14-month high of 6.21 percent year-on-year (YoY).
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RBI MPC comprises of six members. These include three central bank officials and three external members.
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RBI MPC Meeting 2024 Live Updates: Das expresses concerns about certain banking entities' practices related to top-up home loans, noting that these concerns are being evaluated in the context of existing regulatory guidelines.
RBI Governor announced on June 7 that the benchmark interest rates remain unchanged at 6.5 percent
Das said the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) key objective is to get the inflation rate to the 4 per cent target set for it by the government on a durable basis, and the "last mile" is the most challenging.
The nation’s weather office on Monday predicted hotter-than-usual temperatures across the country in the three-month period through June, with a high probability of heat wave episodes lasting as long as 10 to 20 days in certain regions.
The Reserve Bank of India on January 31 barred Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) from accepting deposits, credit transactions, or top-ups in any customer accounts.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Paytm Payments Bank crisis: The Reserve Bank of India's restrictions on regulated entities are always proportionate to the gravity of the situation, said Das during the post monetary policy press conference
Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a directive to Paytm Payments Bank, prohibiting it from accepting new deposits starting February 29, 2024.
RBI projects 7% GDP growth for FY25 as the economy stays resilient. Recovery in rabi sowing, sustained profitability in manufacturing and underlying resilience of services should support economic activity in 2024-25, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said.
This marks the fifth time in a row when the rate-setting panel chose to keep the repo rate unchanged, on the back of easing inflation and higher-than-expected economic growth rate
RBI left the benchmark policy rate (repo) unchanged in its past four bi-monthly monetary policies.
According to a Moneycontrol survey of 17 economists, India's GDP may have grown by 6.8 percent in July-September, data for which will be released by the statistics ministry on November 30.
Das said he does not see new stress building up in the banking system currently, but wants lenders to continue with stress testing.
Banks needed to be watchful of exposure to NBFCs, while NBFCs need to diversify their funding sources to minimise risks, Das has said
The central bank had started the wholesale pilot of CBDC in November last year, and the retail CBDC pilot project in December 2022.
In September, India’s headline retail inflation rate fell to 5.02 percent in September, aided by a steep plunge in the vegetable prices.
Addressing the industry at the Global Fintech Fest here, Das said fintech players need to evolve industry best practices to avoid misselling, stress on ethical practices, pricing transparency and take care of privacy and data protection concerns.
On the inflation front, the RBI governor said the central bank will remain on guard to ensure that second-order effects in the form of generalisation and persistence are not allowed to take hold.
The incremental Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) will suck out a little over Rs 1 lakh crore of liquidity from the banking system, the central bank chief said in the post-policy press conference on August 10.
Typically, banks tend to be prompt in raising rates during a tightening phase but fail to display the same alacrity when interest rates are moving south