Following the footsteps of the country’s largest lender SBI, Punjab National Bank (PNB) today raised interest rate on bulk deposit of over ₹1 crore by 0.5 %.
The rate hike comes days ahead of RBI’s fifth bi-monthly policy on December 6.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its last policy kept interest rate unchanged at 6 %.
The bank has increased interest rates on domestic bulk term deposits of Rs 1 crore and above from 4.50 % to 5 % on deposits of 1 year and above, PNB said in a statement.
The new rates will be effective December 1, it said.
Yesterday, State Bank of India (SBI) announced raising interest rate on bulk deposits by 1 percentage point across select maturities.
SBI hiked interest rates by 1 percentage point across all maturities for deposits above Rs 1 crore, while rates on deposits of less than that amount were kept unchanged.
Interest rate on the shortest tenor deposit — 7-45 days was raised to 4.75 % from 3.75 % and for 5-10 years, it will be 5.25 % from 4.25 %.
