{"id":36379,"date":"2021-02-08T05:13:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=36379"},"modified":"2021-02-08T05:13:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:13:26","slug":"what-are-government-securities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/what-are-government-securities\/","title":{"rendered":"What are government securities?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will give small investors direct access to its government securities trading platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz-2020\/daily-quiz-january-2021\/\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retail investors can directly open their gilt accounts with RBI, and trade in government securities. The RBI Governor described this as a \u201cmajor structural reform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government Securities (or g-secs) are debt instruments issued by the government to borrow money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two key categories are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Treasury bills \u2013 short-term instruments which mature in 91 days, 182 days, or 364 days, and<\/li><li>Dated securities \u2013 long-term instruments, which mature anywhere between 5 years and 40 years.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will give small investors direct access to its government securities trading platform. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Retail investors can directly open their gilt accounts with RBI, and trade in government securities. 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