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Meant For : All Agency Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2025-2026/06CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S2/31-12-010/2025-2026
Subject : Master Circular on Conduct of Government Business by Agency Banks - Payment of Agency Commission
Department : Department of Government and Bank Accounts
Date Of Issue : 01 April, 2025
Meant For : All Agency Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2025-2026/05CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S1/31.02.007/2025-26
Subject : Master Circular - Disbursement of Government Pension by Agency Banks
Department : Department of Government and Bank Accounts
Date Of Issue : 01 April, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman/Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer SLBC/UTLBC Convenor Banks/Lead Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2025-2026/04FIDD.CO.LBS.BC.No.03/02.01.001/2025-26
Subject : Master Circular – Lead Bank Scheme
Department : Financial Inclusion and Development Department
Date Of Issue : 01 April, 2025
Meant For : All banks authorised to operate in India
Circular Number : RBI/2025-26/134DOR.SOG(SPE).REC. 8/13.03.00/2025-26
Subject : Master Direction - Reserve Bank of India (Interest Rate on Deposits) Directions, 2025
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 01 April, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman/ Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks)
Circular Number : RBI/2025-2026/03FIDD.CO.GSSD.BC.No.02/09.09.001/2025-26
Subject : Master Circular - Credit facilities to Scheduled Castes (SCs) & Scheduled Tribes (STs)
Department : Financial Inclusion and Development Department
Date Of Issue : 01 April, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman/Managing Director & CEO Public Sector Banks, Private Sector Banks (including Small Finance Banks)
Circular Number : RBI/2025-2026/02FIDD.GSSD.CO.BC.No.01/09.01.003/2025-26
Subject : Master Circular – Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM)
Department : Financial Inclusion and Development Department
Date Of Issue : 01 April, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman/ Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer All Scheduled Commercial Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2025-2026/01FIDD.CO.FID.BC.No.4/12.01.033/2025-26
Subject : Master Circular on SHG-Bank Linkage Programme
Department : Financial Inclusion and Development Department
Date Of Issue : 01 April, 2025
Meant For : All Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks, Local Area Banks and Regional Rural Banks) All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks/ State Co-operative Banks/ Central Cooperative Banks All All-India Financial Institutions All Non-Banking Financial Companies (including Housing Finance Companies)
Circular Number : RBI/DOR/2024-2025/135DOR.STR.REC.72/21.04.048/2024-25
Subject : Revised norms for Government Guaranteed Security Receipts (SRs)
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 29 March, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman and Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer All Scheduled Commercial Banks including Regional Rural Banks / Urban Co-operative Banks / State Co-operative Banks / District Central Co-operative Banks / Local Area Banks / Payment Banks / Small Finance Banks / National Payments Corporation of India
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/134CO.DPSS.RPPD.No.S1278/03-01-002/2024-2025
Subject : Special Clearing Operations on March 31, 2025
Department : Department of Payment and Settlement Systems
Date Of Issue : 28 March, 2025
Meant For : All participants in the Government Securities market.
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/133Ref.No.IDMD.2320/08.01.01/2024-25
Subject : General Notification for Sale and Issue of Government of India Securities (including Treasury Bills and Cash Management Bills)
Department : Internal Debt Management Department
Date Of Issue : 27 March, 2025
Meant For : All Scheduled Commercial Banks (other than Regional Rural Banks)
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/132DoR.AUT.REC.71/23.67.001/2024-25
Subject : Gold Monetization Scheme (GMS), 2015 - Amendment
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 25 March, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman / Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer [All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including Regional Rural Banks)/ Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks/ Local Area Banks]
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/131FIDD.CO.PSD.BC.No.12/04.09.001/2024-25
Subject : Priority Sector Lending Certificates
Department : Financial Inclusion and Development Department
Date Of Issue : 24 March, 2025
Meant For : Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks other than Salary Earners’ Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/130DOR.CRE.REC.69/07.10.002/2024-25
Subject : Review of Priority Sector Lending (PSL) Target – Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs)
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 24 March, 2025
Meant For : All Currency Chest (CC) holding banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/129DCM (CC) No.S3811/03.51.001/2024-25
Subject : Currency Chest operations on March 31, 2025
Department : Department of Currency Management
Date Of Issue : 24 March, 2025
Meant For : All NBFCs (including HFCs) and Asset Reconstruction Companies implementing Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/128DOR.CAP.REC.No.68/21.01.002/2024-25
Subject : Treatment of Right-of-Use (ROU) Asset for Regulatory Capital Purposes
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 21 March, 2025
Meant For : All the Regional Rural Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/127DOR.ACC.REC.No.67/21.04.018/2024-25
Subject : Amortisation of additional pension liability - Implementation of Pension Scheme in Regional Rural Banks with effect from November 1, 1993 - Prudential Regulatory Treatment
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 20 March, 2025
Meant For : All Commercial and Cooperative Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/126DOR.ACC.REC.No.66/21.04.018/2024-25
Subject : Reserve Bank of India (Financial Statements - Presentation and Disclosures) Directions, 2021: Clarifications
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 20 March, 2025
Meant For : All Category-I Authorised Dealer Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/125A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 22
Subject : Asian Clearing Union (ACU) Mechanism – Indo-Maldives trade
Department : Foreign Exchange Department
Date Of Issue : 17 March, 2025
Meant For : All Agency Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/124CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S1003/42-01-029/2024-2025
Subject : Annual Closing of Government Accounts – Transactions of Central / State Governments – Special Measures for the Current Financial Year (2024-25)
Department : Department of Government and Bank Accounts
Date Of Issue : 17 March, 2025
Meant For : The Chairpersons/ CEOs of all the Regulated Entities
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/123DOR. AML.REC.65/14.06.001/2024-25
Subject : Implementation of Section 51A of UAPA, 1967: Updates to UNSC’s 1267/1989 ISIL (Da'esh) & Al-Qaida Sanctions List: Amendments in 12 Entries
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 15 March, 2025
Meant For : All Agency Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/122CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S954/42-01-029/2024-2025
Subject : Reporting and Accounting of Central Government transactions for March 2025
Department : Department of Government and Bank Accounts
Date Of Issue : 28 February, 2025
Meant For : The Chairpersons/CEOs of all the Regulated Entities
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/121DOR.AML.REC.64/14.06.001/2024-25
Subject : Implementation of Section 51A of UAPA, 1967: Updates to UNSC’s 1267/ 1989 ISIL (Da'esh) & Al-Qaida Sanctions List: Amendments in 01 Entry
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 27 February, 2025
Meant For : All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks but excluding Regional Rural Banks and Payments Banks)
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/120DOR.STR.REC.61/21.06.001/2024-25
Subject : Exposures of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) to Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) – Review of Risk Weights
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 25 February, 2025
Meant For : All Commercial Banks (including Small Finance Banks, Local Area Banks and Regional Rural Banks) excluding Payments Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/119DOR.CRE.REC.63/21.06.001/2024-25
Subject : Review of Risk Weights on Microfinance Loans
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 25 February, 2025
Meant For : All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/118DOR.CRE.REC.62/07.10.002/2024-25
Subject : Review and rationalization of prudential norms - UCBs
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 24 February, 2025
Meant For : All Eligible Market Participants
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/117FMRD.DIRD.16/14.03.042/2024-25
Subject : Reserve Bank of India (Forward Contracts in Government Securities) Directions, 2025
Department : Financial Markets Regulation Department
Date Of Issue : 21 February, 2025
Meant For : Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank), the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID), the National Housing Bank (NHB) and the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/116DOR.MRG.REC.60/00-00-017/2024-25
Subject : Reserve Bank of India (Prudential Regulations on Basel III Capital Framework, Exposure Norms, Significant Investments, Classification, Valuation and Operation of Investment Portfolio Norms an
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 17 February, 2025
Meant For : All participants in Government Securities market
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/115FMRD.MIOD.No.15/11.01.051/2024-25
Subject : Government securities transactions between a Primary Member (PM) of NDS-OM and its own Gilt Account Holder (GAH) or between two GAHs of the same PM
Department : Financial Markets Regulation Department
Date Of Issue : 17 February, 2025
Meant For : All Category – I Authorised Dealer Banks
Circular Number : RBI//2024-2025/114A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 21
Subject : Export-Import Bank of India’s GOI-supported Line of Credit of USD 120 mn to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (GO-VNM) for procurement of High-Speed Guard Boats in the Borro
Department : Foreign Exchange Department
Date Of Issue : 13 February, 2025
Meant For : All Category – I Authorised Dealer Banks
Circular Number : RBI//2024-2025/113A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 20
Subject : Export-Import Bank of India’s GOI-supported Line of Credit of USD 180 mn to the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for procurement of 4 Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) in the Borro
Department : Foreign Exchange Department
Date Of Issue : 13 February, 2025
Meant For : All Agency Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/112DOR.CO.SOG(Leg) No.59/09.08.024/2024-25
Subject : All Agency Banks to remain open for public on March 31, 2025 (Monday)
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 11 February, 2025
Meant For : All Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/111DoR.RET.REC.57/12.01.001/2024-25
Subject : Change in Bank Rate
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 07 February, 2025
Meant For : All Primary Dealers,
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/110REF.No.MPD.BC.398/07.01.279/2024-25
Subject : Standing Liquidity Facility for Primary Dealers
Department : Monetary Policy Department
Date Of Issue : 07 February, 2025
Meant For : All Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) participants
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/109FMOD.MAOG.No.150/01.01.001/2024-25
Subject : Liquidity Adjustment Facility - Change in rates
Department : Financial Markets Operation Department
Date Of Issue : 07 February, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman / Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer, Authorised Payment System Operators / Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/108EFD.CO.No.1/02.08.001/2024-25
Subject : Framework for imposing monetary penalty and compounding of offences under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007
Department : Enforcement Department
Date Of Issue : 30 January, 2025
Meant For : All Housing Finance Companies (HFCs)
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/107DOR.FIN.REC.No.58/03.10.136/2024-25
Subject : Private Placement of Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs) with maturity period of more than one year by HFCs – Review of guidelines
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 29 January, 2025
Meant For : All Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs)
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/106DoR.SIG.FIN.REC.56/26.03.001/2024-25
Subject : Guidelines on Settlement of Dues of borrowers by ARCs
Department : Department of Regulation
Date Of Issue : 20 January, 2025
Meant For : Chairman/Managing Director/CEOs All Commercial Banks (including Regional Rural Banks, Small Finance Banks, Payment Banks, and Local Area Banks) All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks, State Co-operative Banks, District Central Co-operative Banks All Prepaid Payment Instrument Issuers All Non-Banking Financial Companies (including Housing Finance Companies) All Credit Information Companies All Payment Aggregators All Payment Systems Participants & Payment System Providers
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/105CEPD.CO.OBD.No.S1270/50-01-001/2024-25
Subject : Prevention of financial frauds perpetrated using voice calls and SMS – Regulatory prescriptions and Institutional Safeguards
Department : Customer Service Department
Date Of Issue : 17 January, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman / Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Excluding RRBs) All Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks All Deposit Taking NBFCs (Excluding HFCs) [Supervised Entities (SEs)]
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/104Ref.No.DoS.CO.PPG/SEC.13/11.01.005/2024-25
Subject : Coverage of customers under the nomination facility
Department : Department of Supervision
Date Of Issue : 17 January, 2025
Meant For : All Agency Banks
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/103CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S770/42-01-029/2024-2025
Subject : Status of March 30, 2025 for Government transactions through integration with e-Kuber
Department : Department of Government and Bank Accounts
Date Of Issue : 03 January, 2025
Meant For : The Chairman / Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer Lead Banks Concerned
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/102FIDD.CO.LBS.BC.No.11/02.08.001/2024-25
Subject : Formation of new district in the State of Nagaland – Assignment of Lead Bank Responsibility
Department : Financial Inclusion and Development Department
Date Of Issue : 02 January, 2025
Meant For : All eligible market participants
Circular Number : RBI/2024-2025/101FMRD.DIRD.No.09/14.03.004/2024-25
Subject : Participation of NaBFID as an AIFI in financial markets
Department : Financial Markets Regulation Department
Date Of Issue : 01 January, 2025
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