Saturday, 15 March 2014

Base Rate : What is Base Rate

The minimum rate of interest below which any bank is not allowed to lend any loan excepting certain exceptions.  It is the minimum rate of interest that a bank is permitted to charge from its customers. According to the rule of RBI no bank can recommend loans at a rate lower than the Base Rate to any of its customers.

Benchmark prime lending rate has been replaced by the base rate and it effected from july 1,2010. Base Rate shall involve all those elements of the lending rates which are common across all categories of borrowers. Banks may select any benchmark to reach at the Base Rate for a particular tenor that may be disclosed transparently. 
All the banks has same base rate.  Although, banks have the freedom to select any benchmark to arrive at a single Base Rate but the similar requirements to disclosed transparently.


Present Base Rate: 9.80% – 10.25%

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