Thursday, September 5, 2013

RBI mulls low-cost swap lines to lure deposits from overseas Indians

.........At a Monday meeting that included RBI Deputy Governor H R Khan and executives from foreign banks in India, a proposal was discussed under which the central bank would look into buying back the dollars by providing a forward swap line at a discount for three to five years, they said. That would reduce the hedging cost for banks to raise dollars overseas and convert them into rupees in India...............

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