SBI, 4 more banks cut interest rates

New Delhi: Led by SBI, five more banks today cut interest rates on loans and deposits upto one per cent, following reduction in the short-term policy rates by Reserve Bank last week. While banks have tweaked rates differently, the net effect is that depositors lose more than the gains accruing to borrowers resulting in widening […]

Odishatv Bureau
  • Published: Monday, 23 April 2012
  • Last updated: 23 April 2012, 08:36 PM IST

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New Delhi: Led by SBI, five more banks today cut interest rates on loans and deposits upto one per cent, following reduction in the short-term policy rates by Reserve Bank last week. While banks have tweaked rates differently, the net effect is that depositors lose more than the gains accruing to borrowers resulting in widening of the banks` margins.

Country`s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) slashed interest rates upto one per cent on fixed deposits of all but one maturity. With these changes, the peak rate on SBI fixed deposits would come down to 9 per cent per annum, from tomorrow. On the other hand, it has reduced interest rates marginally by about 0.25 per cent, that too only on car loans.

SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said that the bank may not go in for cut in the minimum (base) lending rate. "Our base rate is already one of the lowest in the industry," he told CNBC TV18. Other banks, including Allahabad Bank, United Bank of India and Kotak Mahindra Bank have reduced the base rate by upto 0.25 per cent.

SBI`s base rate stands at 10 per cent. It is the benchmark rate below which a bank cannot lend. Lakshmi Vilas Bank reduced its FD rates on select maturities by 0.25 per cent. Following the RBI`s decision to cut key interest rate by 0.5 per cent to 8 per cent in its annual credit policy ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank and Punjab National Bank have already announced reduction in both lending and deposit rates.

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