JUL 24, 2025
The June edition of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s Financial Stability Report is not just another regulatory update. It presents a decisive view of how both global and domestic regulatory frameworks are recalibrating to match the complexity of our times and how they are responding to a rapidly digitalising economy, increasing systemic risks, and growing market complexity.
Basel Committee's latest monitoring reveals the increasing gap in resilience between globally active and smaller banks. While Net Stable Funding Ratios (NSFR) remained stable, Liquidity Coverage Ratios (LCR) saw a slight decline in Group 1 banks. Group 2 banks recorded an increase in both metrics.
After more than two decades, the Basel Committee has revised its guidelines for credit risk management. This new framework integrates risk governance, measurement, and moving beyond capital adequacy into qualitative indicators of credit discipline.
The FSB's review of securitisation reforms highlights that while transparency has improved, certain markets, especially CLOs, remain untested through a full credit cycle. National authorities are being urged to monitor synthetic risk transfers and exposures that sit outside the current regulatory perimeter.
The FSB introduced a formal analytical toolkit to track transition and physical climate risks. Metrics such as CRISK (climate stress-driven capital shortfall), carbon earnings-at-risk, and climate beta are now part of central banks' macro-prudential vocabulary. We expect these tools to inform disclosure expectations and investor capital flows.
A common framework for cyber incident reporting, titled FIRE (Format for Incident Reporting Exchange), has been released.
RBI's push for INR settlement via Special Rupee Vostro Accounts (SRVAs), coupled with FEMA amendments and bilateral MoUs with countries like UAE, Indonesia, and Mauritius, marks a structural move towards local currency internationalisation.
SEBI has launched the MITRA platform in collaboration with DigiLocker and other public infrastructure systems. Investors can now trace unclaimed mutual fund folios and demat accounts through a central interface. This aligns with the broader objective of giving retail investors full control and visibility over legacy assets.
The RBI has consolidated digital lending guidelines into a more robust framework. Two key developments stand out:
A total of ₹3.89 lakh crore has been recovered via approved resolution plans, representing approximately 170% of liquidation value and 93.4% of fair value.
As of March 2025, 97.6% of deposit accounts in India are fully insured under the ₹5 lakh limit. The deposit insurance fund has grown by over 15% YoY, improving the reserve ratio to 2.29%. This enhances retail confidence in both traditional and digital deposit-taking institutions.
The International Financial Services Centre has seen significant scale:
IFSC is transitioning from experimental to strategic in India's global financial integration. The report makes one thing clear: regulatory clarity is no longer reactive; it is preemptive. The future belongs to institutions that can design for resilience and transparency at scale.
Whether you are building credit, payments, investing, or B2B financial infrastructure, the signal is consistent. The future of finance will be shaped by those who build trust into the blueprint.