RBI MPC Meeting 2026: Sanjay Malhotra & Co hold rates steady at 5.25% as oil shock, weak rupee & West Asia war cloud outlookRBI Monetary Policy Meeting 2026: The Reserve Bank of India maintained the repo rate at 5.25%, balancing inflation risks from rising crude ...
05 Jun, 2026, 10.41 AM IST
Surplus liquidity fuels record parking in SDFBanks have parked a record ₹4.52 lakh crore in the RBI's Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) at 5% overnight. This strategy allows them to borr...
11 Feb, 2026, 05.59 AM IST
RBI auctions help bring average call rate closer to repoThe weighted average call rate remained below the repo rate. The Reserve Bank of India used variable rate repo and reverse-repo auctions. T...
06 Aug, 2025, 05.49 AM IST
Banks rush for VRR amid call rate spikeBanks rushed to borrow from the RBI's VRR auction as overnight money market rates exceeded the policy repo rate. This spike, driven by GST ...
24 Jul, 2025, 12.32 AM IST
RBI's SDF sees record high of Rs 2.6 lakh crore in June quarterThe Reserve Bank of India's Standard Deposit Facility saw a record high average quarterly balance of ₹2.6 lakh crore in June 2025, driven b...
14 Jul, 2025, 06.15 AM IST
India central bank's operations to keep overnight rates within policy corridor, analysts sayAnalysts suggest the RBI's strategy of liquidity withdrawal will likely maintain overnight interbank lending rates within the policy corrid...
04 Jul, 2025, 12.54 PM IST
RBI may soon step in to absorb excess liquidityThe Reserve Bank of India is anticipated to introduce variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auctions to manage surplus liquidity, aiming to kee...
16 Jun, 2025, 06.05 AM IST
From cutting cash Reserve ratio and repo rates to buying G-secs via open market operations, here is how RBI manages liquidity in India's banking systemSeveral measures were undertaken by the central bank to contain India’s banking liquidity deficit that hit a multi-year high in January thi...
17 Feb, 2025, 12.22 PM IST
Banks cautious about parking extra cash in RBI's variable rate windowThe reluctance to park funds for long comes despite a sharp increase in surplus liquidity over the past couple of weeks following governmen...
18 Jul, 2023, 12.20 AM IST
'AP, Telangana, Punjab among states that frequently use RBI's short-term liquidity windows: ReportAndhra, Telangana, Rajasthan and Punjab along with three north-eastern states are repeatedly using the Reserve Bank's special short-term li...
23 Oct, 2022, 02.24 PM IST
Standing Deposit Facility to be the new floor for policy ratesThe SDF rate has been set at 3.75%, higher than the 3.35% fixed reverse repo rate, which is the rate at which banks park their excess funds...
09 Apr, 2022, 08.00 AM IST
RBI restores LAF corridor, introduces SDF as floor at 3.75% as part of liquidity managementThe SDF facility will be a tool to absorb excess liquidity from the system and will have the ability to absorb longer term liquidity as and...
08 Apr, 2022, 05.12 PM IST
Railways to levy fee for boarding, alighting at redeveloped stations; suburban train passengers exemptedOfficials said the fee is likely to be added to the train tickets during booking. The fee will be levied only after such stations become op...
10 Jan, 2022, 11.00 AM IST
Govt may allot Rs 500 cr for sugar development fund in BudgetThe government may marginally raise the corpus for Sugar Development Fund (SDF) to Rs 500 crore in the upcoming Budget for 2018-19.
24 Jan, 2018, 04.31 PM IST
Government to oppose RBI's proposal of new cash toolThe RBI has recommended Standing Deposit Facility as the tool will allow it to mop up extra funds without having to provide lenders any col...
15 May, 2017, 10.40 PM IST
Better G-secs management can lower rates, help government save Rs 10K crore: Report"The RBI needs to avoid disruptive modes of liquidity absorption, instead it should ensure that there is favourable demand-supply balance f...
02 Apr, 2017, 03.21 PM IST
- Interest rate on SDF loans increases to 7.5% from earlier 4%
The Fund is utilised to provide loans at concessional rates to sugar factories for sugarcane development, modernisation, co-generation and ...
29 Mar, 2012, 05.34 PM IST