The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that call money market hours will be extended by two hours. It will change from the current 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM to 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM starting 1st July 2025.

This decision follows a detailed review conducted by a Working Group chaired by Radha Shyam Ratho. The group was established to evaluate trading and settlement hours across RBI-regulated financial markets.

Based on the committee’s recommendations and market feedback, the RBI has now decided to extend call money timings. This change will take effect from 1st July.

Additionally, trading hours for the market repo and Tri-Party Repo (TREP) segments will be extended to 4:00 PM from 1st August 2025. At present, the market repo segment closes at 2:30 PM. Meanwhile, TREP ends at 3:00 PM.

With the update, market repo and TREP will operate from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Call money markets are primarily used by banks and standalone primary dealers (SPDs) to meet short-term liquidity needs. They operate as part of the overnight money market. This market includes both uncollateralised (call money) and collateralised (market repo and TREP) segments.

The RBI clarified that trading hours for the government securities market, foreign exchange market, and interest rate derivatives market will remain unchanged.

It added that other suggestions by the working group are still being reviewed. Decisions on them will follow in due course.

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