State Bank of Travancore (SBT) raises lending rate by 50 Basis Points

State Bank of Travancore
Mumbai: Two banks together with State Bank of Travancore (SBT) on Saturday raised lending tax by 50 basis points which will kind automobile, mother country and other loans from the lender costlier to existing as well as another borrowers.

The revised center rate or the most minuscule lending rate will be 9.50 apiece cent from May 9, up from 9 apiece cent in a jiffy, SBT thought in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

The rate hike comes inside days of the Reserve Bank hiking its document tax by 50 basis points, making cost of funds dearer in place of advertisement banks.

The stack has besides announced increase in intensity in its yardstick prime lending rate (BPLR) by 50 basis points to 14.25 apiece cent.

Besides, exclusive sector Development Credit Bank raised its both its center rate and BPLR by 50 basis points.

The senior lending tax would kind loans dearer in place of both another and existing automobile, mother country and corporate borrowers.

Yesterday, ICICI Bank and five shared sector banks raised their lending tax by up to 50 basis points.

Banks maintain been on a rate hike extravaganza since the Reserve Bank's decision to raise short-term type tax together with the repo and reverse repo by 50 basis points in its Annual Credit Policy on May 3.

The repo rate and reverse repo rate in a jiffy attitude by the side of 7.25 and 6.25 basis points, correspondingly.

Besides, the banking controller besides upped the savings stack deposit consequence rate to 4 apiece cent from 3.5 apiece cent.