Financial stability is a public good, need to preserve it — Shaktikanta Das
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Financial stability is a public good, need to preserve it — Shaktikanta Das

Speaking at the 39th Nani Palkhivala memorial lecture, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das delivered a speech on the need for a stable financial system in India. Read the full text here:

   
File Photo of RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

File Photo of RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das | ANI Photo

New Delhi: Describing financial stability as a ‘public good’, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday stressed the need to preserve and nurture its resilience and robustness by all stakeholders.

Delivering the 39th Nani Palkhivala memorial lecture through a virtual platform, he said the central bank has directed its policy efforts to put in place a state-of-the-art national payments infrastructure, ensuring safe, secure, efficient and cost-effective robust payments ecosystem.

“Financial stability is a public good and its resilience and robustness need to be preserved and nurtured by all stakeholders. We need to support economic revival and growth, we need to preserve financial stability,” he said.

Read the full text of his speech here:


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