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Brand Connect Post 07 February 2020
A personal loan is an unsecured loan, which means that you do not need to provide any collateral to borrow. Unlike other loans, a personal loan does not require you to keep any collateral or security with the lender. Banks and financial institutions can lend this loan at a lower interest...

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The State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday said it would offer repo rate-linked home loans from July 1, 2019.   It also announced the reduce interest rate on cash credit account and over draft customers with limits of over Rs 1 lakh, from July. The current repo-linked lending Arate...

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Private sector Federal Bank is looking at a 20 per cent growth in business in the current fiscal, an official said on Wednesday.   "We are pursuing a 20 per cent year-on-year growth in business, including deposits and credit, in 2019-20," Federal Bank MD and CEO Shyam Srinivasan...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 May 2019
The State Commission for Consumer Redressal, Chandigarh, has suggested that RBI conduct a forensic audit of Fullerton Credit Company, a non-banking finance company (NBFC), providing finance to households and small and medium enterprises. This extraordinary suggestion was made following the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 November 2018
UPDATED on 10 November 2018 at 1550 to include response from CapitaWorld and SIDBI-led consortium   The Diwali gift from prime minister Narendra Modi to the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector, may well turn out to be a privacy and security nightmare for small businesses...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 June 2018
Political and social activists, academics and financial analysts included, a large number of people gathered at the inaugural of Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructure Financing in Mumbai, ahead of the Annual Meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), decried investments of AIIB...

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday enhanced the housing loan limits under priority sector lending (PSL) to Rs 35 lakh in metropolitan centres under the affordable housing scheme.   The RBI in its Second Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement 2018-19 had decide to enhance the...

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Giving significant relief to home buyers, President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday gave assent to the ordinance amending the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to recognise their status as financial creditors.   Being treated as financial creditors would bring home buyers at par...

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For long, parents have been saving for the primary and secondary education of their children, as well as any higher studies. The past 10-15 years have seen a change with more students willing to take on the responsibility to fund their education, and this is where student loans play an...

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Clinton Fernandes 29 May 2018
Where there is an asset, can the lender be far behind? After loan against property, here comes loan against mutual funds (MFs). HDFC Bank has launched an online overdraft (OD) facility that can be set up in under three minutes, for lending money against your mutual fund holdings. The Bank has...

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Abhay Datar 04 May 2018
The duration of a loan, especially a mortgage, tends to be so long that one tends to forget details about what went into the process of procuring the loan. This, sometimes, leads to carelessness in ensuring that the loan is correctly closed.    Every Thursday, I guide people facing...

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IANS 02 November 2017
India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday announced reduction of interest rates on home and automobile loans by five basis points (bps).   In a statement issued here the bank said, it has reduced home loan interest rates to 8.30 per cent.   Similarly,...

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The State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday announced reduction in home loan interest rates by 10 basis points (bps) for salaried women who take a loan of above Rs 75 lakh, effective from June 15.   "Home loans above Rs 75 lakh will now be cheaper by 10 bps with effect from June 15. The...

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Outlining its plan to deal with the mounting problem of banks' bad loans, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said it will reconstitute the oversight committee (OC) to operationalise the banking ordinance for resolving the issue of non-performing assets (NPAs).   "It has been...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 May 2017
Here is good news for new borrowers of home loans as they can now get lower interest rates, with several lenders having reduced the rates. However, for existing borrowers on floating rate basis, there is no immediate respite, as they will have to wait for the next reset date for the marginal...

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Mumbai, The mounting problem of bad loans of banks cannot be resolved by their simple recapitalisation and options like raising private capital for state-run banks need to be considered to deal with the issue, the RBI said on Friday.   "I wish to propose that we deal with the ailing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 January 2017
HDFC Ltd, one of the largest housing finance company, on Thursday announced a 15 basis points (bps) reduction in its retail prime lending rate (RPLR). This reduction would benefit all existing customers, the lender said.   For all new home loans of up to Rs75 lakh, interest rates for...

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Abhirup Ghosh 05 August 2016
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY)– Housing for All aims at addressing the shortage of 20 million slum and non-slum urban poor households, by 2022. Under the PMAY, central assistance will be provided to the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) and other implementing agencies through union territories...

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Bengaluru: Outgoing Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday said that education loans should be made flexible to the borrower.   "What a number of banks are finding is that some of the education loan borrowers are not paying back, default rate is picking up," said...

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Jason Monteiro  and   Niraj Prajapati 23 June 2016
Indians love gold and even the poorest Indian tries to acquire the smallest trinket that doubles up as jewellery and long-term savings. Naturally, television advertisements featuring movie superstars who tell you how easy it is to borrow money against that carefully accumulated gold, touch an...

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