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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has hiked the interest rates nearly 12 times for over a period of 18 months wherein all the loan borrowers are being burdened. Satish Kumar, national credit manager, mortgages, at ICICI Bank reported saying, a well planned budget for the payment of regular pre-payment charges is the best way to [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has brought in new scheme to the residents to pay housing loans of Non-resident Indians (NRI) or People of Indian origin (PIO). The apex bank reported saying that this scheme has been decided in India to a non-resident Indian. Also the central bank allowed residents and individuals to pay [...] Continue Reading »
State Bank of India has gone through teaser loan scheme by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in early 2009 but now ruled out relaunching a dual rate scheme for home loans due to its paying a stiff price in the form of huge provisioning. ICICI Bank and HDFC have already come up with teaser [...] Continue Reading »
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said floating rate home loans will be spared penal charges in case of prepayments. Besides the decision on home loans, the action points include measures to protect customer interest in unauthorized ATM transactions, and a policy for compensation to customers for mental harassment. The regulator for housing finance companies like [...] Continue Reading »
Demand for property in major cities across the country have dipped and sharp increase in borrowing costs had kept buyers on the sidelines. Banks have raised their lending rates sharply in the past few months after Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates 11 times since March 2010. Bhopal leads the pack in rise [...] Continue Reading »
ICICI Bank on Tuesday said its recently launched fixed-rate home loan scheme would not attract the higher provisioning mandated for teaser-rate housing loan products and the rates are “fixed” only for an initial period of one and two years. According to the bank, the fixed rates will “shield customers from frequent changes in home loan [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had jacked up its key lending rate by a steep 425 basis points in the past 15 months to batten down inflation and the banks have passed on the increased cost to borrowers. Banks have been witnessing rising risks from small and medium scale industries and unsecured portfolios, which [...] Continue Reading »
The SBI had grabbed attention and market share in the competitive home loan space after it pioneered the teaser home loan scheme in February 2008 which offered a low, fixed interest rate at 8 per cent in the initial years of the loan. Later, it morphed into a floating rate at the prevailing market rate. [...] Continue Reading »
Several banks had reduced their yearly business growth targets following slowing in credit offtake on account of increasing interest rates. The Reserve Bank of India has raised policy rates 11 times in the past 16 months, making funds dearer. Banks are looking to boost credit growth, which has suffered due to high interest rates. Most [...] Continue Reading »
Differential rate of interest scheme (DRI) was formulated by the central government in 1972 for extending financial assistance at a concessional rate of interest (4%) to select low income groups for productive endeavours. These loans were to be given initially by public sector banks and then by private sector banks also. The Reserve Bank of [...] Continue Reading »
