SEPTEMBER 2019 VOLUME-50 Banking e-Bulletin CONTENTS Top RBI Speeches ............................. 03 Top Banking News .............................07 India’s Foreign Trade ......................103 Merchandise Trade .........................105 Services Trade ............................... 106 Top Banking Development ...............107 Top Expert Reports ..........................110 Top RBI Circulars.............................113 THE ASSOCIatED CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF INDIA DEPARTMENT OF BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICES ASSOCHAM Corporate Office: 5, Sardar Patel Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi-110 021 Tel: 011-46550568 (Hunting Line) • Fax: 011-23017008, 23017009 • Web: www.assocham.org Dr. Rajesh Singh Kushagra Joshi Mob: +91-9871204880 Mob: +91-8447365357 E-mail:
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[email protected] TOP RBI SPEECHES Dimensions of India’s External Sector Resilience (Shri Shaktikanta Das, Gov- ernor, Reserve Bank of India - Thursday, September 19, 2019 - Delivered at the Bloomberg India Economic Forum 2019 in Mumbai) he international environment is clouded (Source: FDI Report, Financial Times, 2018). Net Twith very challenging conditions. Global foreign direct investment at US$ 18.3 billion in growth is slowing down and central banks April-July 2019 was higher than US$ 11.4 billion across the world are bracing up to counter in the corresponding period of 2018-19. it by easing monetary policy; but there is no Significant progress has been made in recession as yet. Trade wars have pushed external debt management since the external world trade into contraction and threaten to payment difficulties encountered in 1990 which morph into tech and currency wars, with no triggered wide-ranging structural adjustments evidence of any significant gains accruing to and reforms. The level of external debt at 19.7 anyone.