Treasury Bills<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713Treasury bills are short term (up to one year) borrowing instruments of the Government of India or by a central authority of any country which enable investors to park their short term surplus funds while reducing their market risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713They are auctioned by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) at regular intervals and issued at a discount to face value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713The bill market is a sub-market of the money market in India. There are two types of bills viz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713Treasury Bills and commercial bills. While Treasury Bills or T-Bills are issued by the Central Government; Commercial Bills are issued by financial institutions.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713T-bills have an advantage over the other bills such as zero risk weightage associated with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713They are issued by the government and sovereign papers have zero risks assigned to them, High liquidity because 91 days and 36 days are short term maturity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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