INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
link certain loans to the external benchmark based interest rate from October 1, in a bid to allow faster transmission of its rate cuts to
consumers.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said banks were not satisfactorily transferring the cuts in policy rates
The RBI said lenders would now have to link all new floating rate personal or retail loans and floating rate loans to micro, small and
medium enterprises (MSMEs) to an external benchmark.Last month, the RBI lowered its benchmark interest rates for a fourth straight meeting
with a slightly bigger than expected 35 basis points cut, underscoring its worries about India's near-five-year-low economic growth
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