SBI hikes deposit rates up to 75 bps
Team Udayavani, Mar 1, 2018, 11:39 AM IST
Mumbai: Signalling a hardening interest rate regime across the banking system, State Bank of India, the leader in both the credit as well as deposit markets, on Wednesday steeply increased both the retail and bulk deposits rates for various maturities by up to 0.75% with immediate effect.
When it comes to the bulk term-deposit rates, this is the third pricing revision in the past four months by the nation’s largest lender.
Under the present loan pricing mechanism that is based on the marginal cost of funds-based lending rates (MCLR), any upward revision in the cost of funds, including deposits pricing automatically leads to a pricing revision in loans.
For retail deposits, below Rs 1 crore, rates have been increased by up to 0.50%, while for deposits maturing in one year to less than two years, the pricing has been raised by 0.15% to 6.40% from 6.25% earlier.
All the new rates come into force immediately, the bank said in a statement.
It can be noted that many banks have been increasing their deposit and lending rates since the last quarter.
While lending rates have been jacked up on an average of 5-10 bps by private sector lenders like HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Yes Bank since January, almost all the state-run lenders have been increasing their bulk deposit rates in the range of 15 bps to 125 bps.
SBI today revised upwards the retail deposit rates for the two years to under 10 years bracket by 0.50% to 6.50%. The existing rate is 6% at SBI.
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