India Business News: Overseas Indians sent a record $29 billion back home in the December quarter through remittances, driven by increasing returns from FCNR instruments.
Fresh inflows under FCNR(B) which eliminates currency risk for NRIs, touched $2 billion in April-October, compared with an outflow of $841 million in the same period a year ago, showed the latest Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data published in its monthly Bulletin. Overall, fresh NRI deposits doubled to $6 billion during the April-October of 2023, from $3 billion in the same period a year ago.
Fresh inflows under various non-resident deposit schemes doubled to $6.1 billion in April-October 2023 from $3.05 billion in the same period of the last year, a recent Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed.