Bank transmit lending rates faster than deposit rates in September

While the lending rates rose by 10-26 basis points ( one bps is 0.01 percent) in September. deposit rates rose by only 9 bps during the month. The Reserve Bank has been raising its benchmark policy repo rate-the rate at which it lends to banks since May this year as consumer price inflation has remained above the target band of 2 to 6 percent. It raised repo rates by 50 bps to 5.9 percent when the monetary policy committee met on September30, taking the cumulative rate increase since May to 190 bps.

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