Loan Rates

As much as Rs 40,710 crore loan has been sanctioned to over 1.8 lakh accounts under the government's flagship Stand Up India Scheme, which is focussed on economic empowerment and job creation, according to official data. Of the funds sanctioned since the inception of the scheme in 2016, about 80 per cent of the loans have been given to women entrepreneurs. The scheme was launched on April 5, 2016 to promote entrepreneurship amongst women, Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories by providing them loans for starting a greenfield enterprise in manufacturing, services or the trading sector and activities allied to agriculture. In the first year, Rs 3,683 crore was sanctioned which has now swelled to Rs 40,710 crore as on March 31, 2023, the data showed. As much as Rs 33,152.43 crore was sanctioned to 1.44 lakh accounts of women while 26,889 loans worth Rs 5,625.5 crore were to SCs and 8,960 loans worth Rs 1,932 crore to STs under the scheme. The scheme has since bee

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Marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) is the minimum interest rate below which a bank cannot lend, except in certain cases

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Bank of Baroda and Indian Overseas Bank have raised their MCLR rates by up to 0.10 per cent, which will make most loans costlier for the customers. Indian Overseas Bank has revised upwards the MCLR rates by 0.10 per cent across tenors, making consumer loans costlier from Saturday. The benchmark 1-year tenor marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) has been revised to 7.75 per cent against the existing rate of 7.65 per cent. This will impact car, personal and home loans. The two and three-year MCLRs have been hiked by a similar margin to 7.80 per cent each. Among others, the overnight MCLR will cost 7.05 per cent, while one month at 7.15 per cent. The three and six-month MCLRs are up at 7.70 per cent each. The revised MCLRs will come into effect from September 10, 2022, Indian Overseas Bank said in a regulatory filing. Bank of Baroda's one-year MCLR will be priced at 7.80 per cent against 7.70 per cent, the bank said in a regulatory filing. The six-month MCLR will be up

Second rate hike in two months by lender after RBI's rate setting committee hiked benchmark repo rate by 50 bps to 5.4%; new MCLR at 7.90-8.40%

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Punjab National Bank has raised the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) by 0.05 per cent across tenors from September 1, making most of the consumer loans costlier. The benchmark one-year tenor MCLR, which is used to price most consumer loans such as car, auto and personal, will be at 7.70 per cent against the existing 7.65 per cent, PNB said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The three-year MCLR stands at 8 per cent, up by 0.05 per cent. Among others, the rate of one-month, three-month and six-month tenor will be in the range of 7.10-7.40 per cent. The MCLR on overnight tenor will be 7.05 per cent against 7 per cent. Earlier this month, the state-owned lender increased the repo-linked lending rate to 7.90 per cent, up by 0.50 per cent, with effect from August 6 following the increase in repo rate by the RBI.

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Amid lending rate hikes by several lenders, state-run Bank of Baroda's CMD Sanjiv Chadha on Thursday termed the increases as "normalisation" in borrowing costs which will not deter loan seekers.

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As of December 2021, a little over 39% of banking system loans are linked to the external benchmark, shows RBI data

A total of Rs 19.22 trillion loans have been sanctioned to 353 million borrowers under the scheme in seven years since inception