TNPSC Thervupettagam

LAF to RRB

December 11 , 2020 1438 days 951 0
  • Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to extend liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) to Regional Rural Banks (RRB) to make liquidity management more efficient.
  • At present, RRBs are not permitted to access the liquidity windows of the RBI
  • The LAF was introduced in RBI in 1998 based on the recommendations of Narasimham Committee on Banking Sector Reforms.
  • It is a monetary policy tool that enables banks to resolve temporary cash shortages through repurchase agreements or repos.
  • RBI uses four tools to control the flow of liquidity in the country. They are
    • Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR),
    • Liquidity Adjustment Facilities (includes repo rate and reverse repo rate),
    • Statutory Liquidity Ratio and
    • Open Market Operations.
  • The two main components of the Liquidity Adjustment Facility are Repo rate and Reverse Repo Rate.

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