In the just concluded three-day monetary policy committee meeting, the RBI decided to raise the repo rate, the rate at which the RBI lends money to all commercial banks, by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent.
While addressing the queries of the media during a press conference after the announcement of the Monetary Policy's outcome, he said RBI has taken a number of steps to strengthen the resilience of Indian banks and it has set guidelines on risk management committees and made it mandatory to a
The central bank's governor said, "As part of our gradual move towards normalising liquidity and market operations, it has now been decided to restore market hours for the government securities (G-secs) market to the pre-pandemic timing of 9 am to 5 pm."
The RBI governor said net foreign direct investment (FDI) flows remain strong at USD 22.3 billion during April-December 2022. It was USD 24.8 billion in the corresponding period last year, he added.
Reserve Bank of India said it has proposed to permit all inbound travellers to India to use UPI for their merchant payments while they are in the country.
SBI Research, in a report published moments before the RBI meeting started, said India's central bank is expected to pause the policy rate hike during the February 6-8 review meeting.
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