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Loan-Repo Link: Moody’s Fright – RBI Decision will Increase the Difficulty of Banks

Monali Gupta

Recently, the Reserve Bank of India had asked all banks to link loans to external benchmark rate (repo rate or treasury bill). Now Moody's Investor Service has said that the financial challenges of banks will increase with the order of RBI. According to Moody's, this is not fair from the point of view of the country's banks. This will affect their ability and flexibility in managing the risk associated with the interest rate.

Actually, banks have to compulsorily link their floating-rate loans to external benchmarks from October 1. The external benchmark rates to which banks are required to add interest rates may include repo rate, 3-month or 6-month Treasury Bill Yield or any other benchmark rate set by Financial Benchmarks India Private Limited (FBIL). After linking to external benchmark, banks will have to reset interest rates at least 1 time in 3 months.
<span style="font-size: 16px;">Actually, banks have to compulsorily link their floating-rate loans to external benchmarks from October 1. The external benchmark rates to which banks are required to add interest rates may include repo rate, 3-month or 6-month Treasury Bill Yield or any other benchmark rate set by Financial Benchmarks India Private Limited (FBIL). After linking to external benchmark, banks will have to reset interest rates at least 1 time in 3 months.</span>

It is worth noting that last week, the Reserve Bank had told the banks that the customers are not getting the benefit of the cut in repo rate as expected. Along with this, the RBI had essentially asked banks to link floating rate loans to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with external benchmark besides all their personal and retail loans. Explain that the Reserve Bank has cut the repo rate by 1.10 percent this year.

You will get direct benefit of the implementation of the new RBI system. In fact, whenever the Reserve Bank will cut the repo rate, it will be mandatory for banks to cut the interest rate. The effect of this will be that the EMI rate of other loans, including your auto and home loan, will decrease. At the same time, after the new system is implemented, the system will be more transparent than before. With this, every borrower will know about the interest rate. They will also know what profit the banks are taking. Apart from this, customers will also be able to compare the loan rates of banks.

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