Union Bank of India said that it has completely aligned its EBLR and RLLR with the recent RBI rate cut which will be beneficial to new and existing retail (home, vehicle, personal, etc.) and MSME borrowers.
State Bank of India has hiked the benchmark Marginal Cost of Lending Rates by 5-10 basis points across tenures. It had last raised the rates in mid-June.
Indian Bank also hiked the treasury bills linked lending rates by 25 basis points across all tenors. The revised rates will come into effect from April 3.
The new rates of HDFC will be effective from January 7, while that of IOB from January 10.
The revised rates would be effective from Tuesday.
The announcement would make loan repayment linked to BPLR costlier. The current BPLR rate is 12.75 per cent. It was revised last in June.
The increase in lending rate comes days after the Reserve Bank of India hiked its benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to tame inflation.
The paper said that for every 1 percentage point increase by the RBI in its repo rate, the weighted average lending rate by banks for fresh rupee loans moves up by 0.26-0.47 per cent per cent under the MCLR regime as against 0.11-0.19 per cent under the base rate regime.
HDFC has raised the key lending rate for home loans six times since May this year, with the previous hike being announced on August 1.
The new rates are effective from June 1, PNB said in a regulatory filing. The revision follows an off-cycle rate increase by the Reserve Bank in May.
The lending rate revision by SBI is likely to be followed by other banks in the days to come.
Both the rates have been slashed by 0.45 per cent each.
Banks in the country are likely to witness a spike in their non-performing assets ratio by 1.9 percent and credit cost ratios by 130 basis point in 2020, following the economic slowdown on account of Covid-19 crisis, S&P Global Ratings said in a report
In a move that will hurt retirees and those depending on interest income for their livelihood, India’s largest public sector bank has cut interest rates on retail term deposits by 20 bps for tenors up to 3 years.
"If you look at the bond yields, they have gone up in the recent past. So, I think the headroom available for cutting down the interest rates, both deposit and lending (seems limited). Deposit rate unless you cut you cannot cut lending rate ... for time being we are in for much more stable interest rate," he said.
While three members highlighted the need to change the stance from accommodative to neutral, four mentioned that inflation excluding food and fuel remains “sticky†at close to 5 percent
CNBC-TV18 had reported, quoting news agency Cogencis, that the bank will merge as many a 450-500 loss making branches as well as cut zonal offices in the next financial year
Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel said that given the quantum of reduction in repo rates that have taken place over the past two years, there is some more scope for reduction in lending rates.
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