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Borrowers always find it difficult to choose between a fixed rate loan and floating rate loan, and in recent years, they have to consider one more option — fixed floating rate loan. In this loan type, the interest rate is fixed for an initial period, which later gets converted to a floating one. Let’s check [...]

In its Annual Credit Policy on Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a cut in repo rate — the rate at which the RBI lends short-term funds to banks — and reverse repo rate — the rate at which banks park surplus funds with the RBI — by 25 basis points each (i.e., 0.25 % [...]

Continuous changes are taking place in the financial world. But in several of the situations there is not adequate understanding about the manner in which the changes will actually affect an individual’s finances. This is why it becomes important for an individual to read the fine print to understand the exact implications of the changes. [...]

Home loan space has become increasingly competitive lately. What with SBI and ICICI Bank decreasing their home loan rates; and HDFC and ICICI Bank increasing the prepayment penalty from 2 to 3 per cent and 2.25 per cent respectively. What does this mean to you? Let’s understand the impact of prepayment penalty through an illustration. [...]

There is increasing competition being witnessed in the home loan space, which has led to a lot of choice as well as offers for borrowers. The impact is also witnessed in terms of an interest rate war from several players with two of India’s biggest lenders SBI and ICICI Bank cutting their home loan rates [...]