Business • Jun 25, 2025

RBI lengthens trading hours to enhance market efficiency

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is giving the call money and repo markets a timing upgrade.
Starting July 1, you can trade call money from 9am to 7 PM—a full two hours longer than before.
The idea? Make it simpler for banks and financial players to move money around and find better prices.

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Repo and tri-party repo markets to get similar treatment

Longer hours mean more flexibility for banks, fewer last-minute funding scrambles, and a smoother market overall.
From August 1, repo and tri-party repo (TREP) markets will also get extended trading till 4pm.
While other markets like government bonds or forex stay the same for now, this is the first big timing change since COVID shook things up in 2019.