Friday, March 29, 2013

SBI wages rate war, undercuts competition

.A senior SBI executive, who is responsible for the “rate war” and does not want to be named, says there is no war and his bank can lend at a rate which is cheaper than many others for the simple reason that it has a lower base rate than others. SBI’s base rate is 9.7%, the same as that of HDFC Bank Ltd. India’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank Ltd’s base rate is 9.75%, but most other banks have pegged their base at 10% or even higher. For instance, the base rate of both Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda is 10.25%.....

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