SBI reduces interest on fixed deposits
04 Oct 2017
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State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, has cut its term deposit rates by 0.25 per cent with effect from 1 October .
The revised rates are applicable for deposits below Rs1 crore and for periods of up to 1-year.
As per the revised rate structure, SBI will offer interest rate of 6.50 per cent for such 1-year deposits against 6.75 per cent offered earlier.
For the similar maturity, the deposit rates for senior citizen have been cut to 7 per cent from 7.25 per cent.
From 1 October , SBI also reduced its base lending rate to 8.95 per cent per annum from 9 per cent while its MCLR or marginal cost based lending rate continued to be at 8 per cent on one-year tenure loans.
