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Banks at 'poverty line' of capital will stay poor: RBI executive director

The 12-minute speech by Sudarshan Sen focused on why all banks, not merely internationally active ones, should maintain a higher minimum capital than what is prescribed under the Basel framework

Bond yields soften, volumes jump after RBI signals more debt purchases

The benchmark yield slid to a new eight-month low of 7.42% as against previous day's close of 7.44

RBI monetary policy: The Indian central bank signals a prolonged pause

Growth momentum is expected to accelerate in FY20 compared to FY19 and bank credit growth has already started increasing

Here's a quick decoding of the RBI monetary policy review in December

The RBI has mandated a minimum level of 'loan component' in fund-based working capital finance for larger borrowers and issued final guidelines

RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.50%, seeks to prod banks to lend more

RBI Governor Urjit Patel indicated that the policy course could change soon, depending upon the movement in oil prices

RBI may continue OMO purchases at current pace till March: Viral Acharya

Over the past two months, the RBI has also infused liquidity through the term-repo window, in addition to the liquidity-adjustment facility

Here's what Urjit had to say about inflation, repo rate after policy meet

Urjit Patel chose not to answer any question on RBI's relationship with the government

Going beyond policy statement, RBI gives guidance

A change in stance (to neural) or even a rate cut is not ruled out next year, writes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.

RBI may go back to 'neutral' stance in February meet, say experts

RBI said it was willing to reconsider its stance if there were favourable macroeconomic indicators

RBI's policy stance required calibration, says Subhash Chandra Garg

The assessment of the MPC for growth and inflation outlook is consistent with that of the government Garg said

Monetary peace

RBI might have chosen to err on the side of caution

RBI says will cut SLR gradually to 18% by mid-2019

The calibrated reduction in statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) will continue till it reaches 18 per cent. The current SLR is 19.5 per cent

Why Urjit Patel chose for status quo and a possible rate cut is on cards

On the surprising dip in inflation lately, Patel said more dataprints are needed to ascertain its durability

RBI's status quo on expected lines, need to improve credit flow: India Inc

RBI kept interest rates unchanged but held out a promise to cut them if the upside risks to the inflation do not materialise

Unchanged repo rate to boost sales, encourage home buyers: Realty sector

will reinforce the confidence of homebuyers and they will be encouraged to go ahead with their plans to buy house

RBI maintains status quo: Key takeaways from fifth bi-monthly policy meet

In order to align the SLR with the LCR requirement, the MPC decided to reduce the SLR by 25 basis points every calendar quarter until the SLR reaches 18 per cent.

RBI retains FY19 GDP projection at 7.4%; pegs Apr-Sept FY20 growth at 7.5%

India's economic growth fell to 7.1 per cent in the second quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal, from 8.2 per cent in the April-June period

MPC meet: RBI lowers retail inflation projection to 2.7-3.2% for H2FY19

In policy review in October, RBI had projected retail inflation to be around 3.9-4.5%

Calibrated tightening stance a surprise; rate cut likely in February

The big surprise in the tone is that while risks have been highlighted in terms of inflation in general and other global factors, liquidity does not find any mention

RBI monetary policy review: Repo rate unchanged at 6.50%, SLR lowered

SLR cut by 25 basis points to 19.25 per cent from January 1, 2019. The central bank also said that SLR would be reduced by 25 basis points every quarter