apital adequacy ratio (CAR), also called Capital to Risk (Weighted) Assets Ratio (CRAR), is a ratio of a bank's capital to its risk. National regulators track a bank's CAR to ensure that it can absorb a reasonable amount of loss [2] and are complying with their statutory Capital requirement
Cash Reserve ratio
As banks need capital for their operations & they may undergo some financial crisis. At that time banks borows money from RBI at certain rate that rate of borowing in known as REPO RATE. In some cases if bank have excess amount they deposit their amount with RBI. the rate of intrest banks get paid by RBI is REVERSE REPO RATE. Reporate Plays important role in liquidity & Inflation.
The CRR rate is 3% to 15% fixed by RBI.
the rbi governer should ans this que first tht wht is monetory power of rbi
through this rbi controls inflation and deflation.
reverse repo rate..
RBI lends to the commercial banks through its discount window to help the banks meet depositor's demands and reserve requirements. The interest rate the RBI charges the banks for this purpose is called bank rate. If the RBI wants to increase the liquidity and money supply in the market, it will decrease the bank rate and if it wants to reduce the liquidity and money supply in the system, it will increase the bank rate. As of 5 May, 2011 the bank rate was 6%.Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): Every commercial bank has to keep certain minimum cash reserves with RBI. RBI can vary this rate between 3% and 15%. RBI uses this tool to increase or decrease the reserve requirement depending on whether it wants to affect a decrease or an increase in the money supply. An increase in Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) will make it mandatory on the part of the banks to hold a large proportion of their deposits in the form of deposits with the RBI. This will reduce the size of their deposits and they will lend less. This will in turn decrease the money supply. The current rate is 6%.Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR): Apart from the CRR, banks are required to maintain liquid assets in the form of gold, cash and approved securities. Higher liquidity ratio forces commercial banks to maintain a larger proportion of their resources in liquid form and thus reduces their capacity to grant loans and advances, thus it is an anti-inflationary impact. A higher liquidity ratio diverts the bank funds from loans and advances to investment in government and approved securities.
RBI
Repo rate is the rate at which RBI lends money to scheduled banks. Its also called Repurchase rate. Reverse Repo Rate is the rate at which RBI borrows money from banks.
REPURCHASE RATE IS ALSO KNOWN AS REPO RATE Whenever the banks have any shortage of funds they can borrow it from RBI. Repo rate is the rate at which our banks borrow rupees from RBI. A reduction in the repo rate will help banks to get money at a cheaper rate. When the repo rate increases borrowing from RBI becomes more expensive.
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the Repo rate, Reserve repo rate and CRR as of 03 January 2009 are as follows: Repo Rate: 5.6% CRR: 5% Reverse Repo rate: 4.1% Source: RBI