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India's external debt rose to $620.7 bn in FY22, up 8% YoY: RBI data

India's external debt increased by USD 47.1 billion to USD 620.7 billion in the financial year ended March 2022, the Reserve Bank said on Thursday. However, the external debt to GDP ratio declined to 19.9 per cent at the end of March from 21.2 per cent at the end of March 2021. Valuation gains due to the appreciation of the US dollar as against Indian rupee and major currencies such as yen, euro and SDR were placed at USD 11.7 billion. "Excluding the valuation effect, external debt would have increased by USD 58.8 billion instead of USD 47.1 billion at end-March 2022 over end-March 2021," Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a statement. At the end of March, long-term debt (with original maturity of above one year) was placed at USD 499.1 billion, recording an increase of USD 26.5 billion over its level at the end of March 2021. During the same period, the share of short-term debt in total external debt increased to 19.6 per cent from 17.6 per cent. Similarly, the ratio of short-t

Visa creates 100 mn card-on-file tokens following RBI norms last week

The landmark has been achieved in line with RBI's guidelines focusing on security and enhanced checkout experience, said Visa

The art and science of managing inflation

The conduct of monetary policy is not based on simplistic binaries, particularly during times of extraordinary uncertainty

The RBI MPC serves no purpose other than cosmetic and should be dismantled

There are two insurmountable hurdles in the path of RBI's independence on monetary policy. These hurdles make committees redundant

Who doesn't want growth?

The RBI, however, cannot use the growth argument to justify inflation

MPC members indicate more rate hikes to tackle rising inflation

The rate-setting committee has increased the policy repo rate by 90 basis points in May and June, to 4.9 per cent

Will buy Indian stocks if Nifty drops to around 14,000 levels: Chris Wood

In the short-term, Wood suggests that investors should sell stocks on a rally. The bet for a sustained equity market rally before 2022 end is a possible change in the US Fed's language, he said

Regulatory engagement: A sine qua non

It is time for an engagement strategy document incorporating best practices of other central banks in key markets

RBI's regulation review authority moots periodic review of existing rules

Also suggests that regulatory instructions should contain a statement of objective underlying the rationale for their issuance, supplemented with FAQs/guidance notes and illustrations

Chris Wood rejigs India equity exposure; replaces HDFC with HDFC Bank

In the financial sector, Wood now holds SBI, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Prudential Life, ICICI Lombard and CAMS besides HDFC Bank in his India long-only equity portfolio.

RBI policy effect: Loans to get more expensive as banks hike lending rates

ICICI, BoB take the lead; Kotak Bank ups deposit rates

Oil shock: What the RBI can do

The absolute oil price rises at a very high rate and the absolute prices of other goods and services rise somewhat at their usual rates

Over 11.8 mn payment devices deployed across country till April : RBI data

More than 4.11 lakh PoS, mobile PoS and other physical devices were deployed across the country under the Payments Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF) scheme as on April 30, 2022, the RBI said

RBI's decision to raise policy rate to help Indian economy, says Assocham

Industry body Assocham on Thursday said the Reserve Bank's decision to raise the benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 4.9 per cent will help the Indian economy in the medium term.

RBI to come out with regulatory architecture on digital lending platforms

The Reserve Bank of India will soon come out with regulatory architecture for digital lending platforms, many of which are unauthorised and illegal, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Thursday. There have been increasing cases of alleged suicides of borrowers due to harassment by a few of the operators of digital lending apps. "I think very soon we will be coming out with a broad regulatory architecture, which should be able to address the challenges that we are confronted with regard to lending through digital platforms, many of which are unauthorised, unregistered and, should I say, illegal," Das said while delivering a lecture on - Indian Businesses (Past, Present and Future). He was speaking at the Iconic Week celebration as part of the 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav' to mark the 75th anniversary of Independence, organised by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC). Das on Wednesday suggested that customers borrowing from unregistered digital lending apps should approach

Sensex snaps 4-day losing run, rises 428 pts; Nifty holds 16,450; RIL up 3%

CLOSING BELL: Dr Reddy's Labs, Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma, Tech M, and Infosys were the top large-cap gainers

With month to go for card-on-file tokenisation, firms set up solutions

Merchants and other entities that have stored card details of customers will have to purge the data and apply tokenisation

Stocks to Watch: Banks, Lupin, YES Bank, CG Electricals, Ujjivan SFB, Sugar

Stocks to Watch Today: Sugar industry has requested the government that the additional 1 MT export order be given the mills, and not trader or exporters.

RBI joins global central banks, more hikes to follow

The Indian central bank has now gone back to the familiar script, in line with the global central banks

RBI's rate hike to push up costs: Realty, capital goods companies

Ramani Sastri, chairman and managing director (MD) of real estate firm Sterling Developers, said interest rates impact the cost of doing business