Payment Revolution: Preparing for Participation

By R. Gandhi, Former Deputy Governor , RBI We have been focusing our attention on developing the payment systems in the country for the past thirty five years, starting from the computerization of clearing houses way back in early 1980s. Thanks to all these years? efforts, today we have a vibrant, innovating, efficient and secured […]

Village Level Entrepreneur Siddharathan overcomes disability to become an inspiration for society

ICTpost Media Action Vellore: April 21, 2019 Determination and resilience often overshadow any obstacle, including disabilities, paving the way for extraordinary achievements. Those who confront challenges head-on and persistently pursue their goals not only surmount barriers but also become beacons of inspiration for others. The story of individuals like Siddharathan Xavier vividly demonstrates that disabilities […]

Public Credit Registry can help in Micro Credit

Public Credit Registry can help in Micro Credit

By Dr Viral V Acharya, Deputy Governor, RBI To build credit models for individuals and small credits, the financier and its modelers are ideally required to know not just outstanding credit for the micro borrowers, but possibly also their entire repayment history and their cash flow fluctuations, so as to tailor the terms of credit […]

Current Policy Issues Facing the Indian Economy

By Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India Indian economy has witnessed an accelerated pace of domestic reforms in recent years. These reforms include, inter alia, the flexible inflation-targeting monetary policy framework, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and steps for enhancing foreign investments by liberalising the FDI regime […]

Global Economic Turmoil: Impact on Indian Economy

Global Economic Turmoil: Impact on Indian Economy

By Harun R Khan, Former Deputy Governor, RBI The inter-linkage of Indian economy with the rest of the world has been growing at a rapid pace, and therefore, global developments influence the domestic economy in a much bigger way than before. Though the spill over effect can take place through multiple channels, it mostly gets […]

India is far behind in adoption and deployment of Digital Information Systems

By Nivedan Sahani Is the digital information world good for us? The information exchange and availability are getting wireless and the information format is getting smaller in size day by day which enables us to get it anywhere & anytime. If we take the opinion about the digital information impact on our social life, we […]

Reaching the Unbanked and Underbanked: Going Mobile

20 May, 2018; New Delhi Look and you’ll see an exciting landscape emerging in the banking arena. One where there is a billion-strong market actively seeking financial services but remains largely unattended to. These globally distributed prospective customers represent enormous earning potential for banks, but constitute the unbanked. The unbanked are those who do not […]

Strengthening the Banking System for lending to MSMEs

Strengthening the Banking System for lending to MSMEs

By S. S. Mundra, Deputy Governor, RBI With a view to strengthen the reach and scope of credit delivery mechanism for small entrepreneurs and businesses, RBI has recently issued in-principle approvals for setting up of 10 Small Finance Banks (SFBs). The SFBs are mandated to extend 75 per cent of their Adjusted Net Bank Credit […]