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Banks to fight RBI’s move on savings rate deregulation

Banks are fighting Reserve Bank of India’s move on deregulation of the interest rate on savings bank accounts, the final frontier of regulated rates. Banks gain from low-cost savings deposits. The apex bank wants to liberate the savings deposit rate to smoothen monetary policy spread, which it considers is affected by the present fixed-rate regime.… Read More »

BMW to launch X1 in India in 2011; motorcycles to follow

At the launch of the new BMW X5 on Tuesday Dr.Andreas Schaff, President, BMW India outlined the growth strategy for the company over the next year. An initial overview of the strategy clearly shows BMW’s aggressive approach towards the Indian market.

Car loan lender UBI planning to raise deposit rates

Post another policy rate increase by Reserve Bank of India in its monetary policy review for the 2nd quarter, car loan lender United Bank of India is yet to decide if it should increase interest rates or not.

O P Bhatt says interest rates not to increase immediately

With the Reserve Bank of India increasing major policy rates in the 2nd quarter of monetary policy review, the biggest lender in the country, State Bank of India has said that it will not increase interest rates before 3-6 months.

Interest rates not to increase before October

The latest policy rate increase by the Reserve Bank of India in monetary policy review has produced a confusion whether the interest rates on deposits and loans would also go up or not.

Credit card transactions increase by 5%

During the month of July credit card transactions valued at Rs 5,817.46 crore took place which is an increase of 5% over the transactions posted a month previously.

NHB to assist in refinancing NBFCs

National Housing Bank has said that it would like to help in refinancing the non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) offering home loans to borrowers.