State-owned Bank of Maharashtra on Wednesday said it has increased its marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) for select tenor loans. The benchmark one-year MCLR, used to price most of consumer loans such as auto, personal and home, has been revised upwards to 7.90 per cent from 7.80 per cent, the lender said in a regulatory filing. The revised MCLR has come to effect from November 7, 2022. The one-month MCLR has been raised by 5 basis points to 7.50 per cent. Rates for other tenor loans like overnight, three and six months have been kept unchanged. Bank of Maharashtra stock traded at Rs 24.25 apiece on BSE, up by 4.08 per cent.
Strong loan growth, rising lending rates give the boost
Private sector DCB Bank has revised upwards the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate by 27 basis points across tenors. The revised rates will come to effect from November 5, 2022, DCB Bank said in a regulatory filing on Friday. The benchmark one-year MCLR rate will be priced at 10.23 per cent from Saturday against the existing rate of 9.96 per cent. The one-year tenor MCLR is used to price most of the consumer loans, such as housing, auto and personal. The one, three and six-month tenor MCLRs will be 9.63 per cent, 9.79 per cent and 10.02 per cent, respectively. While the overnight tenor MCLR will be 9.58 per cent.
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Banks change lending policy to keep up with monetary policy committee's raising repo rate
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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.
The interest rate hike comes after the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) six-member monetary policy committee (MPC) raised the benchmark repo rate by another 50 bps to 5.40 per cent last week
Most banks have revised their external benchmark linked loan rates by 50 bps
The revised rates for new borrowers range between 7.80 per cent and 8.30 per cent, depending on credit and loan amount
The state-owned lender cut overnight and one-month MCLR by 25 bps to 6.90 per cent and 7 per cent
Analysts warn that housing finance companies (HFCs), which cater largely to affordable housing segment, may see some margin erosion
The banks have a balm for their pain. Probably, shifting to floating rate deposits can work as an anaesthetic gel for some of the customers
The Reserve Bank on Friday said it has imposed a penalty of Rs 27.5 lakh on Punjab & Sind Bank for non-compliance with certain directions issued by it on 'external benchmark-based lending'. A statutory examination of Punjab & Sind Bank revealed non-compliance with the directions, inter-alia, to the extent the bank linked certain floating rate retail loans and floating rate loans to micro and small enterprises, extended by it after October 1, 2019, to MCLR instead of an external benchmark, RBI said. A show cause notice was issued to the bank. "After considering the bank's reply to the notice, oral submissions made in the personal hearing and examination of additional submissions made by it, RBI came to the conclusion that the charge of non-compliance ... was substantiated and warranted imposition of monetary penalty...," RBI said. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), however, added that the penalty is based on the deficiencies in regulatory compliance and is not intended to ...
As of December 2021, a little over 39% of banking system loans are linked to the external benchmark, shows RBI data
Recently, country's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), also increased its MCLR by 10 bps. SBI has hiked its MCLR by 20 bps in two months