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Our Bureau Mumbai, June 27 To increase its credit offtake and market share, State Bank of India on Saturday reduced the interest rate on car loans to 8 per cent for the first year. For the second and third years, the bank will charge 10 per cent, and from the fourth year it will charge the then prevailing rate. SBI’s car loan scheme is available for new cars and also for balance transfers, that is, those who have borrowed from other banks can transfer their loans to SBI at lower rates. “We want to increase our auto loan portfolio and the penetration of auto loans. We have been able to find business logic, while others have not been able to,” said a senior bank official. Starting from Monday, the bank’s card rates for car loans will range between 11 and 11.5 per cent, which is 25-75 basis points below the BPLR of 11.75 per cent. In February, the bank had launched a car loan scheme that offered funding at 10 per cent for a year. The scheme was on till May and was extended till September. Under the car loan scheme, the bank’s disbursement touched around Rs 300 crore a month and with the further reduction in interest rates it may go up some more, said a senior official from the bank. The bank’s auto loan portfolio is currently at over Rs 9,000 crore and it is now the largest financier of new cars. Even under its special scheme of home loans at 8 per cent fixed for a year, the bank has been able to lure a significant number of customers away from other banks. Till mid-March, the bank had sanctioned Rs 1,350 crore under the special home loan scheme. The bank cut its BPLR by 50 basis points, with effect from June 29. SBI cuts lending rate by 50 bps SBI cuts deposit rates by 25 basis points across the board More Stories on : Consumer Finance | Interest Rates | Public Sector Banks | Cars | State Bank of India
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