Should you prepay your home loan?

Saving on the net interest is the significant advantage of prepaying the home loan, other than the fact that you will retain the complete ownership of the house earlier than planned. The longer the loan tenure, the more the interest repaid, hence its best to repay your home loan in the shortest loan tenure possible,… Read More »

SBI introduces ‘SBI Gift Card’ in Hyderabad

State Bank of India (SBI) today introduced a new product called ‘SBI Gift Card’ in Hyderabad. The gift card was formally introduced by the mayor of  Hyderabad city, B Karthika Reddy. The function was attended by the bank’s Chief General Manager for AP region Shiv Kumar.

Standard Chartered Bank looking to hire smaller IT companies

Standard Chartered Bank, a leading Singapore-based bank predicts India will play a leading role in the technological aspect and introducing new products. It is also ready to work with smaller IT companies in order to offer economical services to its customers.

Indian investors lap up real estate in Dubai

During the year 2009, Indian investors ended up lapping the largest chunk real estate sales in Dubai. This was discovered in a new study conducted by FutureBrand’s Gulf Real Estate Study.

Car makers report record sales in January

With the dawn of new year, leading car makers like Suzuki, Hyundai Motors, Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, General Motors and also Fiat have recorded their highest monthly sales since their commencement. Sale of different types of cars went up by 33% to 175,526 units in January as compared to 131,636 units sold in January… Read More »

Prepayment penalty to continue

Banks are worried about the competition commission’s interference on homeloan prepayment penalty subject as they are worried that it would force their costs, hike risk and also increase the lending rates.