Reserve Bank of India – Annual Report

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April 14, 2015




Dear All




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Reserve Bank of India – Press Releases

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The results of the auctions of 4.26% Government Stock 2023 (Re-Issue), 5.85% Government Stock 2030 (Re-Issue), 6.76% Government Stock 2061 (Re-Issue) held on June 11, 2021 are:

Auction Results 4.26 GS 2023* 5.85% GS 2030 6.76% GS 2061
I. Notified Amount ₹3000 Crore ₹14000 Crore ₹9000 Crore
II. Underwriting Notified Amount ₹3000 Crore ₹14000 Crore ₹9000 Crore
III. Competitive Bids Received      
(i) Number 147 291 250
(ii) Amount ₹16659.118 Crore ₹39125 Crore ₹25662 Crore
IV. Cut-off price / Yield 100.12 98.97 97.27
(YTM: 4.1929%) (YTM: 5.9938%) (YTM: 6.9625%)
V. Competitive Bids Accepted      
(i) Number 18 4 78
(ii) Amount ₹3747.823 Crore ₹4000 Crore ₹8990.879 Crore
VI. Partial Allotment Percentage of Competitive Bids 76.26%
(6 Bids)
0%
(0 Bids)
31.10%
(2 Bids)
VII. Weighted Average Price/Yield 100.14 98.99 97.34
(WAY: 4.1820%) (WAY: 5.9910%) (WAY: 6.9572%)
VIII. Non-Competitive Bids Received      
(i) Number 3 6 6
(ii) Amount ₹2.177 Crore ₹24.237 Crore ₹9.121 Crore
IX. Non-Competitive Bids Accepted      
(i) Number 3 6 6
(ii) Amount ₹2.177 Crore ₹24.237 Crore ₹9.121 Crore
(iii) Partial Allotment Percentage 100% (0 Bids) 100% (0 Bids) 100% (0 Bids)
X. Amount of Underwriting accepted from primary dealers ₹3000 Crore ₹14000 Crore ₹9000 Crore
XI. Devolvement on Primary Dealers 0 ₹9975.763 Crore 0
* Greenshoe amount of ₹750 crore has been accepted

Ajit Prasad
Director   

Press Release: 2021-2022/353

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Bank of Maharashtra tops PSU banks in terms of loan, deposit growth

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State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has emerged as the top performer among public sector lenders in terms of loan and deposit growth during financial year 2020-21.

The lender recorded 13.45 per cent increase in gross advances at ₹1.07 lakh crore in 2020-21, as per the published data of BoM.

It was followed by Punjab & Sind Bank which posted 8.39 per cent growth in advances with aggregate loans at ₹67,811 crore at the end of March 2021.

When it came to deposit mobilisation, BoM with nearly 16 per cent growth was ahead of even the country’s largest lender State Bank of India, which recorded 13.56 per cent rise.

However, in absolute terms SBI’s deposit base was 21 times higher at ₹36.81 lakh crore as against ₹1.74 lakh crore of BoM.

Current Account Savings Account (CASA) for BoM saw 24.47 per cent rise, the highest among the public sector lenders, during the year.

As a result, CASA was 54 per cent or ₹93,945 crore of the total liability of the bank.

According to the announced quarterly numbers, Central Bank of India achieved second spot by recording 11.46 per cent growth in CASA at ₹1.61 lakh crore.

Total business of BoM increased 14.98 per cent to ₹2.81 lakh crore.

For the full year 2020-21, BoM’s standalone net profit jumped nearly 42 per cent to ₹550.25 crore. In the previous year, the profit was ₹388.58 crore.

The bank’s asset quality improved significantly as the gross bad loans or gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) dipped to 7.23 per cent of gross advances by the end of March 2021 as against 12.81 per cent by the same period of 2020.

In absolute terms, gross bad loans stood at ₹7,779.68 crore at the end of March 2021, lower than ₹12,152.15 crore recorded in the year-ago period.

Net NPAs came down to 2.48 per cent (₹2,544.32 crore) from 4.77 per cent (₹4,145.38 crore).

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Policybazaar gets insurance broking licence from IRDAI

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Web-aggregator Policybazaar on Friday said it has got approval from regulator IRDAI to undertake insurance broking, a development that will help the company augment business and expand bouquet of services.

With this development, the company will surrender its web-aggregator licence to Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) and undertake business including insurance aggregation under the broking umbrella.

“We received our licence to be a broker for which we have been in touch with the regulator for the last three years,” PolicyBazaar.com CEO Yashish Dahiya told PTI.

Venturing into new segments

The broking licence will allow the company to venture into segments which it could not do in the past like claims assistance, offline services, and establish Points of Presence network.

From a revenue perspective, he said, “as a web aggregator we were not paid for life insurance renewals.” As a broker, he said, the company will be entitled for commission as well as fee for web aggregation.

Also read: Serum Institute of India picks up stake in PolicyBazaar

With the help of broking licence, he said, “we will be able to do claims settlement and many other things and we will use this opportunity very wisely.” Policybazaar has a market share of 25 per cent in the life insurance segment while 10 per cent in health insurance.

The parent company PB Fintech also promotes Paisabazaar.com, which is an online credit comparison portal.

PB Fintech had attained the status of a unicorn in 2018 when it raised $200 million in a Series-F round led by Japan’s SoftBank. A company valued at over $1 billion is called a unicorn.

Other investors include the likes of Info Edge, Premji Invest, Temasek, Ribbit Capital, Chiratae, Inventus Capital Partners, True North, Tiger Global, Wellington and Steadview.

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Axis Mutual Fund Launches ‘Axis Quant Fund’, Should You Invest?

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Features of Axis Quant Fund

The scheme’s benchmark would be the S&P BSE 200 TRI, with a minimum investment amount of Rs 5,000 and subsequent investments in multiples of Rs 1. The scheme’s specifics are as follows.

  • The fund employs a fundamental data-driven bottom-up approach stock selection strategy that is backed with a systematic investment method. The fund’s goal is to build a portfolio of 40-60 stocks by selecting equities using quantitative criteria and rebalancing the portfolio regularly.
  • The fund will choose stocks based on core metrics such as growth, value, momentum, and quality, which will be screened using rule-based standards.
  • The fund will distribute 80-100 per cent of its assets to equity and equity-related instruments of identified firms using a quantitative methodology, 0-20 per cent to other equity and equity-related securities, 0-20 per cent to debt and money market instruments, and 0-10 per cent to REIT and InvIT units.
  • With a 5-year investment horizon, the product is appropriate for investors seeking long-term wealth gain.
  • This fund can be purchased through Axis Mutual Fund Online, Axis Mutual Fund Mobile App, Mutual Fund Utility, Channel Distributors, Stock Exchange Channels, and other Online Mode or Mutual Fund Investment apps.
  • Investors interested in SIPs can begin with a minimum SIP of Rs. 1,000/- and in multiples of Rs. 1/- every month. There is no upper limit to invest during or after the NFO period. For further purchases on an ongoing basis, the minimum amount would be Rs. 100 and in multiples of Rs. 1/- thereafter.
  • During the NFO period and thereafter, the minimum initial investment for purchase/switch-in would be Rs. 5,000, and in multiples of Rs 1.
  • The scheme, according to the fund house, would strive to develop an all seasons portfolio that includes the best of fundamental styles: quality, growth, and valuation. The scheme will enable the fund manager to build a portfolio that balances risk and return goals. The scheme also seeks to choose a portfolio of high-quality stocks with outstanding upside potential but low pricing.
  • The fund will have a diverse portfolio spanning sectors and market size.
  • The NFO will be open from June 11 till June 25.

Exit Load and Fund Managers

Exit Load and Fund Managers

Deepak Agrawal and Hitesh Das will manage the fund. Mr Deepak Agrawal is an Equity Research Analyst with over 15 years of experience in the financial markets. Mr Hitesh Das, on the other hand, has over 9 years of expertise in financial markets. If the investment is redeemed or transferred after 12 months from the date of allocation, there will be no exit load. However, if the investment is redeemed or transferred within 12 months, there will be no exit load on the first 10% of the investment and a 1% exit load on the outstanding investment.

Should you invest?

Should you invest?

Returns from rules-based strategies are mostly influenced by disclosure to equity risk variables, particularly price, volatility, quality, and numerous others. Rules-based approaches are particularly appealing to investors who have price limitations, an intolerance to huge risk in concentrated portfolios, or a wish to minimise market vulnerability over the long term with low-volatility assets. A concentrated portfolio includes a few different assets to achieve a certain degree of diversity. A concentrated portfolio may raise your risk, but it also increases your return. On the other side, a fund house uses an NFO to generate funds from the investors in order to acquire market instruments such as equity shares, bonds, and so on. NFOs, like stock market IPOs, are meant to raise funds for the instrument or scheme to engage new and more investors. Historically, NFO investors have seen considerable raise upon listing because investors can purchase these funds at the fund’s existing net asset value (NAV) after the expiry of the NFO period. A new mutual fund or new fund offer may undoubtedly allow you to diversify your portfolio, but on the other hand, an NFO has no past history of performance or loss, which is a significant risk. So, before investing in an NFO, we recommend that investors should look at the AMC’s track record, the purchase price, and the fund’s terms and conditions.



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Addendum – Expression of Interest – Consultant for Manpower Assessment/Planning

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Please refer to the advertisement dated May 11, 2021 regarding submission of EOI for engagement of External Consultant to undertake Manpower Assessment/Planning exercise for the Department of Supervision. In this connection, it may be noted that the EOI documents received till 12pm on June 15, 2021 shall be opened on June 17, 2021 at 11am at RBI, WTC, 3rd Floor, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai. Due to situation of pandemic, physical presence of outsiders is being avoided in line with Government guidelines. Consultants desirous of attending the EOI opening process through virtual mode may send in a request at the following email id – tagmpe@rbi.org.in. All other terms and conditions mentioned in the EOI remain unchanged.

Chief General Manager-in-Charge
Department of Supervision, Central Office

Mumbai

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Bitcoin ruling roils crypto world seeking regulatory clarity, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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By Vildana Hajric and Yakob Peterseil

International banking regulators’ decision to classify Bitcoin as the riskiest of assets dragged cryptocurrencies further into the mainstream financial world.

It also made it extremely costly for banks to hold digital tokens on their balance sheets, potentially delaying crypto’s wider adoption.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposed that a 1,250 per cent risk weight be applied to a bank’s exposure to Bitcoin and certain other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin jumped on the announcement, then erased the gains. It was trading around $36,200 as of 10:30 a.m. in Hong Kong on Friday.

“The only consistency has been the volatility — it’s been big spikes, tons of enthusiasm, followed by big selloffs,” Ross Mayfield, investment strategy analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co., said of Bitcoin’s moves. “If you believe in it you’re probably to stomach the volatility, but if you’re just in it because it seems like the hot way to get a quick buck, that volatility is going to be hard to deal with.”

The ruling sparked a bevy of reactions across Wall Street and other financial centers worldwide. Here’s a sampling:

Luke Sully, CEO at treasury technology specialist Ledgermatic:
“It’s a piece of news that both advocates and critics of Bitcoin will declare as a win. It demonstrates that Bitcoin is now a recognized asset class with risk management parameters for the banks, but these same parameters could be a potential deterrent given the onerous capital requirements that may make it an unpalatable business,” he said. “There are a few underlying assumptions in this risk weighting, the most obvious being that the price may go to zero and investors could lose their full allocation. The capital requirements don’t protect the banks clients from transaction, settlement and FX volatility either.”

David Tawil, president of ProChain Capital, a crypto hedge fund:
To me, this whole thing, along with the IMF, is just a way for those entities to get involved in the conversation. In terms of putting these requirements it’s going to go ahead, and at least for now, take traditional banks that are traditional regulated by these regulatory entities essentially out of this game and that will allow for more and more alternative players, who are not regulated, to go ahead and to pull further ahead,” he said. “A regulator has very little upside and enormous downside — it’s like being a policeman. You want to protect people. So the furthest you can go in terms of lodging measures that stop activity, the better. And so, I think that they are for the first time inserting themselves. This certainly does not mean the end of cryptocurrency, the end of Bitcoin.”

Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex:
“I don’t think these things are good or bad themselves — it depends on what the objective is,” he said. “It’s not decentralized, it’s highly concentrated. Crypto was born in an age in which we had very extreme disparities of wealth and income — how can it not reflect that? The bulk of Bitcoin that’s owned by wallets have more than 100 Bitcoins, that’s more than $300,000 — how many Americans have $300,000 to put into crypto as opposed to retirement money?”

Matt Maley, chief market strategist for Miller Tabak + Co.:
“Obviously tougher capital requirements cause banks to have more capital on hand — that can have an impact on their earnings. The committee is saying because of risks involved — cryptocurrencies are very volatile — you have to have more capital on hand to protect against declines,” he said. “If it’s going to cost banks more to hold these cryptocurrencies on their books, they’re theoretically going to be less likely to hold the same kind of size as they otherwise would.”

Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo said in a Bloomberg TV interview with Matt Miller:
“It is getting hammered, but you know what? It’s getting treated like any other higher-risk asset like subprime loans, or CDOs, or derivatives, or structured products. And it is a new product. It’s untested through economic cycles. It’s untested through liquidity.”



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Bank of Maharashtra tops PSU banks in terms of loan, deposit growth, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has emerged as the top performer among public sector lenders in terms of loan and deposit growth during financial year 2020-21. The lender recorded 13.45 per cent increase in gross advances at Rs 1.07 lakh crore in 2020-21, as per the published data of BoM.

It was followed by Punjab & Sind Bank which posted 8.39 per cent growth in advances with aggregate loans at Rs 67,811 crore at the end of March 2021.

When it came to deposit mobilisation, BoM with nearly 16 per cent growth was ahead of even the country’s largest lender State Bank of India, which recorded 13.56 per cent rise.

However, in absolute terms SBI’s deposit base was 21 times higher at Rs 36.81 lakh crore as against Rs 1.74 lakh crore of BoM.

Current Account Savings Account (CASA) for BoM saw 24.47 per cent rise, the highest among the public sector lenders, during the year.

As a result, CASA was 54 per cent or Rs 93,945 crore of the total liability of the bank.

According to the announced quarterly numbers, Central Bank of India achieved second spot by recording 11.46 per cent growth in CASA at Rs 1.61 lakh crore.

Total business of BoM increased 14.98 per cent to Rs 2.81 lakh crore.

For the full year 2020-21, BoM’s standalone net profit jumped nearly 42 per cent to Rs 550.25 crore. In the previous year, the profit was Rs 388.58 crore.

The bank’s asset quality improved significantly as the gross bad loans or gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) dipped to 7.23 per cent of gross advances by the end of March 2021 as against 12.81 per cent by the same period of 2020.

In absolute terms, gross bad loans stood at Rs 7,779.68 crore at the end of March 2021, lower than Rs 12,152.15 crore recorded in the year-ago period.

Net NPAs came down to 2.48 per cent (Rs 2,544.32 crore) from 4.77 per cent (Rs 4,145.38 crore).



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WazirX says didn’t receive any ED notice yet, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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India‘s largest cryptocurrency exchange, WazirX co-founder Nischal Shetty said that it is yet to receive any show cause notice from the Enforcement Directorate.

Enforcement Directorate in a release had said it has issued a show cause notice to the crytpocurrency exchange and its directors Nischal Shetty and Sameer Mhartre under Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) transactions involving cryptocurrencies worth Rs 2790.74 crore.

ED had initiated an investigation under FEMA 1999, on the basis of the ongoing money-laundering probe into Chinese-owned illegal online betting applications.

During the course of the investigation ED observed that the accused Chinese nationals had laundered proceeds of crime worth Rs 57 crore approximately by converting the INR deposits into crypto-currency Tether (USDT) and then transferring the same to Binance (exchange registered in Cayman Islands) Wallets based on instructions received from abroad.

Nischal Shetty said, “WazirX is in compliance with all applicable laws. We go beyond our legal obligations by following Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) processes and have always provided information to law enforcement authorities whenever required. We are able to trace all users on our platform with official identity information. Should we receive a formal communication or notice from the ED, we’ll fully cooperate in the investigation.”



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Reserve Bank of India – Press Releases

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    4.26% GS 2023* 5.85% GS 2030 6.76% GS 2061
I. Notified Amount ₹3,000 cr ₹14,000 cr ₹9,000 cr
II. Cut off Price / Implicit Yield at cut-off 100.12/4.1929% 98.97/5.9938% 97.27/6.9625%
III. Amount accepted in the auction ₹3,750 cr ₹4024.237 cr ₹9,000 cr
IV. Devolvement on Primary Dealers Nil ₹9,975.763 cr Nil
* Green shoe amount of ₹750 crore has been accepted

Ajit Prasad
Director   

Press Release: 2021-2022/352

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