Prepayment penalty
The RBI may issue orders to scrap penalty on pre-payment of all retail and small corporate loans. The central bank disputes the practice of charging pre-payment penalty on any loan since the entire system has moved to floating rates — be it deposits or loans — where rates are charged based on the prevailing markets, [...] Continue Reading »
The rate of interest may not have fallen significantly this year, but due to the difference in new and old home loan interest, the borrowers are shifting their loan from existing lenders to cheap lenders. The State Bank of India (SBI) is offering Rs 30 lakh home loan for the new borrowers at the most [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank of India ordered all the banks to stop charging penalty on prepayment of home loans taken on floating interest rates. The order is circulated after the Damodaran Committee had observed that foreclosure charges levied by banks on prepayment of home loans were resented by home loan borrowers. The removal of the charges [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank of India barred banks from charging any fee from a customer who wants to repay an outstanding loan and close the account. This will give the home loan customers a greater flexibility to opt for other banks for better interest rates. Housing finance regulator National Housing Bank (NHB) has already barred home [...] Continue Reading »
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently had set up a committee to taken initiative of ensuring proper flow of finance in India. This was also aimed to ensure transparent and non-discriminatory pricing of credit. Meanwhile the Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, K C Chakrabarty reported saying that the housing finance companies and the [...] Continue Reading »
