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RBI To Reduce Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio Maintenance In Phases
The Reserve Bank of India will wind down, in phases, the incremental cash reserve ratio (I-CRR) requirement imposed on banks by October 7, it said on Friday.
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HDFC Bank Set To Meet Reserve Ratio Norms Post Merger: Report
HDFC Bank Ltd, India's biggest private lender, is comfortably placed to meet reserve ratio requirements post its merger with parent HDFC Ltd, even as it awaits a final view from the central bank on requests for forbearance, three sources said.
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China Should Take More Powerful Steps To Support Economy: State Media
China should prepare "more powerful" policy measures, possibly including a large-scale stimulus package, to prevent its economy from stalling as trade frictions with the United States persist, a state-backed tabloid said in a commentary on Thursday.
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RBI May Go Slow On Rate Hike, Has To Pace Tightening: Investor
On Thursday, banks were allowed to dip further into statutory reserves to help them meet their liquidity ratio requirement, a step that would boost cash available for lending.
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RBI Relaxes Cash Balance Requirements For Lenders
Analysts said the move would help banks adhere to the RBI's sharp hike in the CRR announced on Saturday.
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China Cuts Reserve Requirements in Bid to Boost Economy
China's central bank on Monday cut the proportion of funds banks must set aside as reserves, in Beijing's latest attempt to tackle slowing growth in the world's second largest economy.
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Low Inflation Offers Scope of RBI Rate Cut to Boost Growth: SBI
RBI, in June 2 monetary policy review, cut the repo rate (short-term lending rate) from 7.5 per cent to 7.25, but left all other policy tools like cash reserve requirement unchanged at 4 per cent and Statutory Liquidity Ratio at 21.5 per cent.
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Nikkei Hits 15-Year High, Oil Down as Yemen Bombing Ends
Asian equities have found support from Chinese measures to spur lending and combat a slowing economy. On Sunday, China's central bank cut the reserve requirement ratio for the country's lenders in the second reduction in two months.
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China Cuts Bank Reserve Requirement to Counter Slowdown
China's central bank cut the reserve requirement ratio for all banks by 100 basis points on Sunday, the second reduction in two months, as it steps up measures to boost bank lending and combat slowing growth.
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Don't Expect Any Rate Cuts This Year: Experts
The RBI also lowered banks' minimum bond holding requirements, known as the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR), by half a percentage point to 22.0 per cent to free up more money for lending, effective from Aug. 9.
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Bank, Infra Stocks Surge As RBI Eases Lending Norms
Bonds raised by banks would be exempt from the statutory liquidity ratio, cash reserve requirements and priority sector lending targets. This will help create new sources of long-term finance and will help remove the disadvantage banks had vis-a-vis housing finance companies (HFCs), who were not required to adhere to these reserve requirements.
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China lowers reserve requirement ratio for rural banks: report
China's central bank said it will cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for county-level rural commercial banks and rural credit cooperative unions from April 25 to help increase the flow of credit.
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RBI slashes held-to-maturity bond limit in SLR to 23 per cent
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday reduced the requirement of holding held-to-maturity (HTM) category bonds in the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) portfolio for the banks to 23 per cent from the existing 25 per cent.
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Bankers seek 0.5% CRR cut in RBI's May policy review, more OMOs to ease liquidity
The bankers are also seeking a review of the elevated provisioning requirements, bankers told reporters after a customary pre-policy meeting with the RBI top brass on Thursday.
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Draft Basel III provisions cushion liquidity shocks
"Banks will have to ensure that they maintain the required Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) at all times starting from January 2015 and January 2018, respectively," the Reserve Bank said in the draft guidelines.
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RBI To Reduce Incremental Cash Reserve Ratio Maintenance In Phases
The Reserve Bank of India will wind down, in phases, the incremental cash reserve ratio (I-CRR) requirement imposed on banks by October 7, it said on Friday.
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HDFC Bank Set To Meet Reserve Ratio Norms Post Merger: Report
HDFC Bank Ltd, India's biggest private lender, is comfortably placed to meet reserve ratio requirements post its merger with parent HDFC Ltd, even as it awaits a final view from the central bank on requests for forbearance, three sources said.
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China Should Take More Powerful Steps To Support Economy: State Media
China should prepare "more powerful" policy measures, possibly including a large-scale stimulus package, to prevent its economy from stalling as trade frictions with the United States persist, a state-backed tabloid said in a commentary on Thursday.
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RBI May Go Slow On Rate Hike, Has To Pace Tightening: Investor
On Thursday, banks were allowed to dip further into statutory reserves to help them meet their liquidity ratio requirement, a step that would boost cash available for lending.
-
RBI Relaxes Cash Balance Requirements For Lenders
Analysts said the move would help banks adhere to the RBI's sharp hike in the CRR announced on Saturday.
-
China Cuts Reserve Requirements in Bid to Boost Economy
China's central bank on Monday cut the proportion of funds banks must set aside as reserves, in Beijing's latest attempt to tackle slowing growth in the world's second largest economy.
-
Low Inflation Offers Scope of RBI Rate Cut to Boost Growth: SBI
RBI, in June 2 monetary policy review, cut the repo rate (short-term lending rate) from 7.5 per cent to 7.25, but left all other policy tools like cash reserve requirement unchanged at 4 per cent and Statutory Liquidity Ratio at 21.5 per cent.
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Nikkei Hits 15-Year High, Oil Down as Yemen Bombing Ends
Asian equities have found support from Chinese measures to spur lending and combat a slowing economy. On Sunday, China's central bank cut the reserve requirement ratio for the country's lenders in the second reduction in two months.
-
China Cuts Bank Reserve Requirement to Counter Slowdown
China's central bank cut the reserve requirement ratio for all banks by 100 basis points on Sunday, the second reduction in two months, as it steps up measures to boost bank lending and combat slowing growth.
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Don't Expect Any Rate Cuts This Year: Experts
The RBI also lowered banks' minimum bond holding requirements, known as the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR), by half a percentage point to 22.0 per cent to free up more money for lending, effective from Aug. 9.
-
Bank, Infra Stocks Surge As RBI Eases Lending Norms
Bonds raised by banks would be exempt from the statutory liquidity ratio, cash reserve requirements and priority sector lending targets. This will help create new sources of long-term finance and will help remove the disadvantage banks had vis-a-vis housing finance companies (HFCs), who were not required to adhere to these reserve requirements.
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China lowers reserve requirement ratio for rural banks: report
China's central bank said it will cut the reserve requirement ratio (RRR) for county-level rural commercial banks and rural credit cooperative unions from April 25 to help increase the flow of credit.
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RBI slashes held-to-maturity bond limit in SLR to 23 per cent
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday reduced the requirement of holding held-to-maturity (HTM) category bonds in the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) portfolio for the banks to 23 per cent from the existing 25 per cent.
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Bankers seek 0.5% CRR cut in RBI's May policy review, more OMOs to ease liquidity
The bankers are also seeking a review of the elevated provisioning requirements, bankers told reporters after a customary pre-policy meeting with the RBI top brass on Thursday.
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Draft Basel III provisions cushion liquidity shocks
"Banks will have to ensure that they maintain the required Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) at all times starting from January 2015 and January 2018, respectively," the Reserve Bank said in the draft guidelines.
