Banks in no hurry to benefit customers, even as RBI decreases lending rates
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India’s state-run banks, which are burdened with huge bad loans, need even more decrease in RBI’s lending rate before they reduce their own rates.
"Banks' market borrowings are low, so deposit rates will need to come off further for meaningful transmission," SBI chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya told ET.
"This is important because it means an actual rate cut to the borrower of 25 to 50 bps even before today's rate cut. Put differently policy action is significantly greater today than just another 25 bps rate cut. Borrowing is now significantly cheaper and it will continue to get so," RBI governor
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