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RBI issues instructions on trading in Priority Sector Lending Certificates

11 Apr 2016 Evaluate

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued instructions on trading in Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLCs) and launched a platform to enable trading in the certificates through its Core Banking Solution (CBS) portal (e-Kuber). PSLCs have been framed on the lines of carbon credit trading, wherein banks can earn premium for exceeding targets.

As per the notification issued by the RBI all Scheduled Commercial Banks (including Regional Rural Banks), Urban Co-operative Banks, Small Finance Banks (when they become operational) and Local Area Banks are eligible to participate in the trading. Four kinds of PSLCs, namely, PSLC - Agriculture, PSLC - Small & Marginal Farmers, PSLC - Micro Enterprises and PSLC - General can be bought and sold via the platform. The certificates will have a standard lot size of Rs 25 lakh and multiples thereof. There will be no transfer of credit risk on the underlying and the settlement of funds will be done through the e-Kuber portal.

PSLCs provide a market-driven incentive for efficiency and enable banks to sell their surplus lending and thus earning a premium for their efficiency/geographical spread. Earlier, the RBI had comprehensively revised the priority sector guidelines in April 2015 which provided for the introduction of PSLCs as a mechanism to incentivise banks having surplus in their lending to different categories of priority sector. On lines of carbon credit trading, the goal of PSLCs is to allow market mechanism to drive priority sector lending by leveraging the comparative strength of different banks. Banks are required to lend 40 per cent of their advances to priority sectors, which also include agriculture, education and housing.

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