The Supervisory Data Quality Index (sDQI) score of small finance banks (SFBs) and private sector banks (PVBs) dropped by 1.5 and 1.3, respectively, while that of foreign banks (FBs) rose by 0.7 in March 2026 as compared to December 2025, according to the Reserve Bank of India.

sDQI measures data quality in terms of the Accuracy, Timeliness, Completeness and Consistency in the submission of returns and microdata by Banks for supervisory assessments.

The SDQI score of public sector banks (PSBs) declined marginally by 0.3 in March 2026 as compared to December 2025. Overall, the SDQI score of scheduled commercial banks declined marginally by 0.2 in March 2026.

As at March-end 2026, the SDQI score of SFBs, PVBs and PSBs declined to 90.4 (from 91.9 as at December-end 2025), 89.3 (90.6) and 90.7 (91.0), respectively. Only FBs reported an improvement in the score to 91.4 (90.7).

Overall, the SDQI score of scheduled commercial banks declined marginally to 90.7 in March 2026 from 90.9 in December 2025.

Banks are required to report data (Supervisory Returns: all periodic / ad-hoc data submitted to RBI in formats prescribed from time to time, irrespective of the technology platform, periodicity and the mode of submission) on their domestic and overseas operations, including the operations of IFSC Banking Units (IBUs) and Overseas Banking Units (OBUs), wherever applicable, to RBI.

Published on June 20, 2026