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Private banks' net profit soars on healthy loan growth, higher margins

NIMs expanded as banks hiked rates on lending faster than those on deposits

MPC after-effect: SBI, ICICI Bank, YES Bank, BoI raise lending rates

The hike in lending rates shall be applicable to home loans and consequently, equated monthly instalment payments made by customers.

LIC Housing Finance, Bajaj Housing Finance hike lending rates by 0.5%

Mortgage lenders Bajaj Housing Finance and LIC Housing Finance on Monday announced a 0.50 per cent hike each in their lending rates. The revisions come amid a rising interest rates scenario, which has seen the RBI hiking its key lending rate by 1.40 per cent since May to tame inflation. Bajaj Housing Finance hiked its rate by 0.50 per cent, and the lowest priced product for the salaried and professional applicants will be 7.70 per cent now, as per an official statement. Despite the latest hike, the company claimed to be offering loans at competitive rates compared to most of its peers. LIC Housing Finance has increased its prime lending rate (LHPLR) by 0.50 per cent and the new interest rates on home loans will now start from 8 per cent as against 7.50 per cent previously. The company's chief executive and managing director Y Viswanatha Gowd said the RBI's decision to hike the repo rate by 0.50 per cent has caused "minimum fluctuation" in monthly instalments or tenure of home loan

Expecting to sustain loan growth of 15% in current fiscal: SBI chairman

The country's largest lender reported a 14.93 per cent rise in advances to Rs 29,00,636 crore in the first quarter ended June 30, 2022 as compared to Rs 25,23,793 cr during the same period a year ago

China hits 'liquidity trap' as low lending rates fail to spur bank loans

China's Central bank data showed a sharp slowdown in aggregate financing, a broad measure of credit, in July, as new loans and corporate bond issuance weakened

MCLR more effective in policy transmission than base rate regime: RBI paper

Using different models, the paper estimates the degree of pass-through of monetary policy to bank lending rates under both the base rate and the MCLR regimes using dynamic panel data regression.

Ahead of festive season, lenders have a new worry of sub-9% deposit growth

Credit to industry has also expanded 9.5 per cent during this period

ICICI Bank, Bank of India, Indiabulls hike rates ahead of MPC meeting

The revised rates for new borrowers range between 7.80 per cent and 8.30 per cent, depending on credit and loan amount

ICICI Bank raises lending rate by 15 bps ahead of RBI MPC meeting

ICICI Bank, the second-largest private sector lender, on Monday raised its lending rates by 0.15 per cent across all tenors in anticipation of a rate hike by the RBI later this week.

HDFC raises benchmark lending rate, RPLR by 25 bps with effect from Aug 1

Housing Development Finance Corp Ltd hiked its benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points, with effect from August 1, the company said in an exchange filing

Bank of Maharashtra bucks the trend, cuts MCLR by 20-35 basis points

The state-owned lender cut overnight and one-month MCLR by 25 bps to 6.90 per cent and 7 per cent

Don't see any adverse impact of US Fed Reserve rate hike: DEA secy Seth

The government does not see any adverse impact on the Indian economy post the US Federal Reserve's decision to raise interest rates by 75 basis points, Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth said

World shares resume slide on growth fears as Swiss, UK hike rates

Stocks around the world keep falling amid Swiss and UK's respective central banks' lending rate hikes along with fears that these moves may drive markets into recession.

Lending rate hikes will not deter borrowers, says Bank of Baroda MD

Amid lending rate hikes by several lenders, state-run Bank of Baroda's CMD Sanjiv Chadha on Thursday termed the increases as "normalisation" in borrowing costs which will not deter loan seekers.

HDFC raises Retail Prime Lending Rate on housing loans by 50 bps

Following the RBI MPC's decision to raise benchmark policy rate by 50 bps, many lenders, including ICICI Bank and BoB, have also raised their external benchmark linked loan rates by an equal amount

HDFC bank hikes MCLR by 35 bps across all tenures effective June 7

HDFC Bank has hiked its MCLR by 60 basis points since the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) hiked the benchmark policy rate by 40 basis points in early May

Canara Bank, Karur Vysya raise lending rates ahead of RBI's MPC review

State-owned Canara Bank has raised the marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) by 0.05 per cent of 5 basis points to 7.40 per cent for one year tenure

Punjab National Bank raises benchmark lending rate by 0.15%; EMIs to go up

State-owned PNB raised its marginal cost of funds-based lending rate by 15 basis points or 0.15 per cent across all tenures, a move that will lead to an increase in EMIs for borrowers

Punjab National Bank to hike repo-linked lending rate from next month

Punjab National Bank (PNB) chief Atul Kumar Goel on Thursday said the bank will raise the repo-linked lending rates from next month. The move comes against the backdrop of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiking the repo rate by 40 basis points (bps) last week amid rising inflation. Goel, the state-owned lender's MD and CEO, told reporters that interest rates are certain to rise a tad going further. "With 40 bps rise in repo rate... so according to our policy, from June 1, the same quantum raise in lending rates will be there. So there will be some increase in the loan rate for sure," Goel said. Repo rate is the rate at which banks borrow short term money from RBI. With effect from May 7, the city-headquartered lender had raised interest rates on term deposits in select buckets up to 0.60 per cent. A number of banks have already raise the repo-linked lending rates for their customers after the RBI rate hike. Some have also increased their deposit rates. About the bank's performance i

Rate hike, rise in bond yields, rupee fall to hit India Inc margins

The rate hike and the consequent rise in bond yields and upward revisions in lending rates by banks will raise companies' funding costs