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RBI is missing the larger point

AIMPWAMarch 2, 2025

It is true that the annual inflation rate has now come down meaningfully from 5.22 per cent in December 2024 to 4.31 per cent in January 2025. This seemingly justifies a cut in the repo rate from 6.50 to 6.25 per cent by the Reserve Bank of India on February 7. However, the big picture...

RBI announces longer-tenor USD/Rupee swap auction to infuse $10 bn equivalent Rupee liquidity

AIMPWAMarch 2, 2025

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may be killing two birds – attracting Dollars and infusing Rupee liquidity — with a single stone via the US Dollar/Rupee Buy/Sell auction of three-years tenor for $10 billion it will conduct on on February 28. The longer tenor swap could encourage Banks to mobilise longer tenor Foreign Currency...

Accept responsibility of NPA build-up in my tenure: Former RBI Guv Subbarao says

AIMPWAMarch 2, 2025

Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor D Subbarao on Friday said he accepts the responsibility of building up of non-performing assets (NPAs) during his term as the RBI chief between 2008-13, a period coinciding with the global financial crises (GFC). “It is very difficult to identify a bubble in real time, not just in...

Lenders cannot levy floating rate loan foreclosure charges on customers, MSEs: RBI

AIMPWAMarch 2, 2025

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in its draft circular issued today, said lenders shall not levy any charges or penalties in case of foreclosure or pre-payment of floating rate loans granted to individuals and micro and small entities (MSE) for business purposes. However, in case of MSE borrowers, these instructions would be applicable up...

Bajaj Allianz Life goes live with BIMA-ASBA

AIMPWAMarch 1, 2025

Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company (BALIC) has gone live with the BIMA – Application Supported by Blocked Amount facility (Bima-ASBA), which will bring operational ease, enhance policyholder convenience, ensure greater transparency, and simplify the insurance premium payment process. BALIC is the first insurer to go live with the aforementioned facility, per the company’s statement. Under...

Tata AIA launches new Multicap Pension Fund

AIMPWAMarch 1, 2025

Tata AIA Life Insurance Co Ltd has introduced a new Multicap Momentum Quality Index Pension Fund, opening for subscription from February 21 to February 28, 2025. The fund aims to tap into India’s equity markets while providing retirement planning solutions. The pension fund will invest 80-100 per cent in equity and equity-related instruments aligned with...

Gold gains sheen as RBI dips into forex reserves

AIMPWAMarch 1, 2025

The RBI’s move to add more gold to its kitty and the recent rally in prices of the yellow metal to a new high allowed it the wiggle room to dip into forex reserves to smoothen volatility in the rupee’s movement against the dollar. The country’s forex reserves have fallen 10 per cent from $704...

‘Rising temperature may increase probability of default in 30% of agri loan portfolio by 2030’

AIMPWAMarch 1, 2025

Rising temperature and growing threat of climate change may increase default risk in 30 per cent of agri and housing loans portfolio in the next five years, according to an analysis by BCG. According to the report, the average global temperature has already increased approximately 1.2 degree Celsius versus pre-industrial levels leading to flooding in...

Bank of Maharashtra reduces retail loan interest rates by up to 25 bps

AIMPWAMarch 1, 2025

Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Sunday announced reduction by up to 25 basis points (bps) in interest rates on retail loans, including home, car, education and other loans linked with Repo Rate Linked Lending Rate (RLLR). The Pune-headquartered public sector bank, in a statement, said it has already waived processing fees on home and car...

PF interest rate to continue at 8.25% for FY25

AIMPWAMarch 1, 2025

The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s Central Board of Trustees (CBT) has decided to retain interest rate of 8.25 per cent for provident fund deposits for FY 2024-25 but has enhanced social security benefits under its insurance scheme. The CBT recommended 8.25 per cent annual rate of interest will be credited to members’ accounts for the...

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‘In their last days, our parents changed their will’: They left me $250,000, but gave my sister $1 million. What should I do?

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

“How many people maintain a relationship with their siblings after their parents died?” Source link

Atmanirbhar Budget for consumption and development: The ABCD of Budget 2025

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

Here’s a handy alphabetized list of the key themes that shaped the most important financial document of the year: It can’t be a Budget without annadatas and agriculture, can it? Identifying agriculture as one of the four powerful engines in India’s journey of development (the other three being MSMEs, investment and exports), the Budget unveiled...

Goodbye old tax regime; new regime now more attractive

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

Before you pop the champagne, though, there are two points to consider. First, zero tax up to ₹12 lakh as well as the attractive new tax slabs are only applicable to the new tax regime. At the same time, the old tax regime does remain relevant in some cases. Second, if your taxable income is...

Centre sets new five-year target to cut debt to half of GDP; signals robust capital spending, support to states

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

The Union budget has set a new five-year target to cut the central government’s debt to 50% of gross domestic product, give or take 1%, by 31 March, 2031. The budget, presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday, also sought to signal the Narendra Modi administration’s commitment to fiscal prudence and infrastructure creation, including...

Blackstone to increase stake in THIS small-cap realty firm for ₹1,166 crore, sale triggers open offer

AIMPWAMarch 14, 2025

New York-based investment giant Blackstone Inc. will acquire a 40 per cent stakeholding in Kolte-Patil Developers Limited, an Indian real-estate firm, for a value of ₹1,167.03 crore, according to an exchange filing. According to the BSE filing, the realty firm will allocate 14.29 per cent preferential shares to the investment giant, a deal worth ₹417.03...

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‘In their last days, our parents changed their will’: They left me $250,000, but gave my sister $1 million. What should I do?

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