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Accordingly, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the central bank voted to maintain the repo rate, or short-term lending rate, for commercial banks, at 4 per cent. Likewise, the reverse repo rate was kept unchanged at 3.35 per cent, and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the 'Bank Rate' at 4.25 per cent.

It intends, to provide the essential requirements for a robust internal audit function, which include sufficient authority, stature, independence, resources and professional competence, so as to align these requirements in larger NBFCs, UCBs with those stipulated for scheduled commercial banks, said an RBI statement.

Last December, the RBI asked HDFC Bank to temporarily stop all launches of the digital business generating activities and sourcing of new credit card customers, after outages in the bank's online facilities or payment utilities occurred over the past 2 years, including the incident in the internet banking and payment system on November 21, due to a power failure in the primary data centre.

Experts contend that effects of large FIIs' inflows will be neutralised by the RBI as it aims to keep the country's exports competitiveness. The RBI is known to enter the markets via intermediaries to either sell or buy US dollars to keep the rupee in a stable orbit. Recently, the RBI was called out by the US Treasury Department to curtail its market activities.

The RBI, in a discussion paper, proposed to differentiate between NBFCs depending upon the layer they belong to, such as base and middle. As per the discussion paper, NBFCs in the lower layer will be known as 'NBFC-Base Layer' (NBFC-BL), and for the middle layer as 'NBFC-Middle Layer' (NBFC-ML).

India’s vaccine drive was backed by a sophisticated system designed to be as efficient as possible. Furthermore, the comparative advantage of having the biggest vaccine production facility in the world and rich experience in mass vaccination operations against Polio and measles have surely favoured India in the fight against coronavirus.

Delivering the Nani Palkhivala Memorial Lecture on Saturday, Das said that RBI's principal objective during the pandemic was to support economic activity and the policies have helped in easing the severity of the economic impact of the pandemic.

Delivering the Nani Palkhivala Memorial Lecture on Saturday, Das said: "While abundant capital inflows have been largely driven by accommodative global liquidity conditions and India's optimistic medium-term growth outlook, domestic financial markets must remain prepared for sudden stops and reversals, should the global risk aversion factors take hold."

An RBI statement said that the action is based on the deficiencies in regulatory compliance and is not intended to pronounce upon the validity of any transaction or agreement entered into by the bank with its customers.

Accordingly, the company was found to be in violation of directions issued "on Managing Risks and Code of Conduct in Outsourcing of Financial Services by NBFCs and Fair Practices Code (FPC) for applicable NBFCs... and a specific direction to the company to ensure full compliance with FPC in letter and spirit", said an RBI statement.