RBI FX CLAMP IS ABOUT TO SQUEEZE $IO 📌
Indian banks are pressing for a three-month delay to the RBI’s new FX position cap after the central bank ordered daily onshore net open positions below $1000X million. The move is now a liquidity story, not just a compliance story, with forced unwinds in short-tenor arbitrage threatening one-sided flows and sharper mark-to-market pressure.
Watch the nearest-tenor positioning. Track dealer hedges and any extension language from the RBI. Stay alert for a liquidity vacuum if legacy books are pushed to unwind too fast. This is where the market usually reprices first and asks questions later.
I think this matters now because forced balance-sheet cleanup in a stressed currency can spill fast. When liquidity is already thin, even “small” rule changes can trigger outsized reactions.
Not financial advice. Manage your risk.
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