Cash Reserve Ratio(CRR) and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) - Bank Term Explained



Read all about the  Cash reserve ratio and Statutory Liquidity Ratio and how reserve bank of India uses the CRR and SLR as a tool to control the money floating in the market.


What is CRR Rate?

Cash reserve ratio is explained as the minimum fund a bank is needed to deposit with the RBI.

If CRR rate increase

If the RBI increases the CRR rate, then it means that the amount of money with the banks will come down as banks have to deposit more money with the reserve bank.

So RBI is using CRR as monetary tool to regulate the banking sector. If there is excess money in the system, reserve bank will increase the CRR rate which will need the banks to deposit more money with the reserve bank.

If CRR rate decreases

This is an indication that there si very less money in the market and hence RBI has reduced the CRR rate. So that banks need not deposit more money with the reserve bank.


What is SLR Rate?

SLR stands for Statutory Liquidity Ratio. Banks are supposed to keep a certain amount of money as reserve before providing credit to the customers. The reserve money can be in the form of cash, gold or government approved securities. This amount has to be maintained by the bank at all times.

SLR rate is determined by the percentage of total demand and net liabilities.RBI uses this tool to control the flow of money a s credit from the bank to the customers. So SLR rate is another monetary too used by the RBI to regulate the market.

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