OBC has revised its base rate upwards by 50 basis points to 9.50% and BPLR by 50 basis points to 13.75%. Dena Bank, IOB and Indian Bank have hiked their base rates by 50 basis points.

Nupur Mitra, ED, IOB said, “The demand for credit is unlikely to be impacted by higher rates and we will be taking a call on whether to hike the BPLR, which is currently at 13.5%. However, our margins are likely to suffer as a result and could drop to 3% from 3.27%.” With the latest round of loan rate hikes, the base rates of almost all banks are now above 9%. When the base rate was first introduced in July last year, most banks had announced a rate of around 8%. HDFC Home Loan

“This is line with the interest rates in the economy, which have hardened due to an increase in policy rates, inflation and liquidity in the domestic market,” HDFC said in a release. HDFC has increased its retail prime lending rate (RPLR) to which its Adjustable rate home loans (ARHL) is benchmarked, by 25 basis points. The RPLR for loans up to Rs 30 lakh will be 9.75%, for loans between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 75 lakh will be 10% and for loans above that it will be 10.5%.

Meanwhile, Bank of Baroda has realigned deposit rates reducing them for some buckets while increasing them for others.

On Monday, Punjab National Bank had upped both its base rate and benchmark prime lending rate by 50 basis points each to 9.5%and 13% respectively.

It was the first bank to hike loan rates after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked key policy rates by 25 basis points each on January 25, 2011, during its review of the monetary policy.

Said KR Kamath, CMD, PNB, ” We believe that credit offtake will not be impacted by the increase in the loan rates. We have increased deposit rates because we need to sustain both the growth in deposit, currently at 20% and maintain credit growth at 25%.”

Kamath added that the hike was taken in response to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) wishes that credit and deposit growth be aligned.

Allahabad Bank increased its BPLR by 25 basis points to 13.50% and its base rate by 50 basis point to 9.50%. United Bank of India(UBI) too upped its base rate by 50 basis points to 9.45% and BPLR by 50 bps to 13.50%.

With wholesale inflation ruling at 8.5% for the better part of 2010, the central bank increased policy rates six times between March and December 2010.

Banks followed suit increasing both loan and deposit rates with some lenders such as ICICI Bank upping rates twice in the span of a month. The latest hike by banks was on December 31, 2010, when five banks including State Bank of India (SBI) upped loan rates. While SBI raised its base rate by 40 basis points to 8%, ICICI Bank hiked its base rate and benchmark prime lending rate (BPLR) by 50 basis points to 8.25% and 25 basis points to 17%, respectively.

Two state-run lenders, Allahabad Bank and Punjab & Sind Bank on Monday hiked their lending rates by up to half a percentage point, becoming the first banks to up their rates after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased policy rates last week.

Kolkata-based Allahabad Bank hiked its base rate by 0.5% to 9.5% and benchmark prime lending rate or BPLR by 0.25% to 13.5% respectively, from Tuesday.

Base rate is the new benchmark rate below which banks cannot lend. It replaced BPLR from 1 July.

“The hike in our interest rates is in line with the policy of our asset liability committee,” M. R. Nayak, executive director of Allahabad Bank said.

The bank has also hiked the interest rate for its 400-days deposit by 0.5% to 8.5%.

Punjab & Sind Bank said it plans to raise benchmark prime lending rate and base rate to 14.25% and 9.5%, respectively, effective 1 February.

To tame inflation, the RBI has hiked its short term lending borrowing rates (repo and reverse repo) by 0.25% on 25 January at the third quarter review of its annual monetary policy. One basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point.

This is the seventh time the central bank is increasing its policy rates this fiscal. To pass on the hike in RBI key rates, most of the banks had hiked their lending rates by around 0.5% and deposit rates by at least 1% over the past few months.

Authorities of Chongqing and Shanghai municipalities announced Friday they would kick off the long-awaited trial property taxation, starting from Jan. 28, amid the latest measures to cool off the red-hot housing market.

This came on the heels of another round of tightening measures China’s cabinet unveiled Wednesday, including higher down payment, home purchasing restrictions in more cities, and annual price control targets for newly-built homes.

China’s real estate market remains overheated, even after a slew of tightening measures last year, including higher down payments, higher lending rates for second-home buyers and two hikes in the benchmark lending rates.

Chongqing will tax all villas as well as new apartments priced at least two times the average price of all newly-built homes in the southwestern city, said Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan.

The annual tax rates are 0.5 percent of the transaction prices for villas and apartments priced less than three times the average price, 1 percent for those priced three to four times the average and 1.2 percent for those priced more than four times the average, Huang said.

For a family, the first 180 square meters for villas and first 100 square meters for high-end apartments are exempted from tax, he told a press briefing.

For non-permanent residents who don’t work and run companies in Chongqing, their second homes will be taxed at 0.5 percent regardless of the prices, he said.

The city may use the home evaluation prices as the tax bases in three to five years, Huang said.

The newly-bought second and second-plus homes of permanent residents in Shanghai will be taxed if the average floor area per family member of all homes, including the existing ones, is more than 60 square meters, the Shanghai Municipal government said in a statement.

Each family member will have 60 square meters exempted from tax, it said.

All new homes bought by non-permanent residents will be taxed, but the buyers can get all tax returned for their first new homes after they work in Shanghai for three years.

The tax rates are 0.6 percent for housing priced more than two times the average prices and 0.4 percent for those priced less.

The tax bases are 70 percent of the transaction prices now in the initial period and will later be the home evaluation prices, according to the statement.

The levy is designed to help regulate income distribution and promote social equality, and guide reasonable housing consumption for land saving and intensive use, the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said in a statement Thursday.

The tax is certain to help stabilize home prices in pilot cities by curbing speculation over the short term, said Yin Bocheng, director of the real estate research center at Fudan University.

A speculator surnamed Shen from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang said she will have to give up buying new homes in Chongqing, with bigger risks following tougher tightening measures and launch of property tax.

“The market prospect becomes uncertain,” she said.

In response to the newly-announced tightening measures and the widely-anticipated property tax, the property shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses plunged 1.6 percent Thursday, compared with a 1.5 percent gain for the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index.

Many, however, believed the tax would not lead to sharp falls in home prices. Ren Zhiqiang, president of property developer Huayuan Group, said home prices are determined more by supply and demand, but demand in some major cities would not be met for another 10 years.

Also, Li Wei, chairman of Chongqing Doorlead Real Estate Co., said the tax levy on high-end homes in Chongqing would have limited impact on the whole housing market.

The tax is trivial compared with the accelerating urbanization, land supply and monetary policy, Li said. “It will have more of a psychological impact on the market. The massive low-cost housing construction will have a much larger impact, as it greatly boosts the supply.”

Chongqing authorities have announced plans to build 40 million square meters of low-cost housing for rent in the years leading up to 2012 for 2 million low and middle-income residents.

All property tax revenue will be used for building low-cost housing, Huang said. But the tax levy is more nominal than substantial, he said.

Chongqing will collect 150 million yuan (22.8 million U.S. dollars) in property tax revenues this year, but the investment in low-cost housing amounted to 100 billion yuan, he said.

An Tifu, professor at Renmin University of China, however, believed the tax will eventually help to reduce local governments’ reliance on land sales for revenues, which is widely blamed for their unwillingness to rein in rapid rises in housing prices.

Soaring prices are a major concern for urban Chinese with increasingly more finding homes unaffordable. Home prices in some major cities, such as Beijing, have more than doubled over the past two years due to easy credit and low lending rates.

The central bank also raised its economic growth forecast for fiscal 2010 to 3.3 percent, following a two-day policy board meeting ending today.

Policy makers predicted an expansion of 3.3 percent in the year ending March 31 compared with the 2.1 percent estimated in October, the central bank said in a statement today in Tokyo.

The positive view by the BOJ matched the government’s forecast for a 3.1 percent expansion. The government predicted growth would accelerate as overseas demand for Japanese products increased.

The central bank decided to maintain the size of its asset purchase fund and the cheap credit program, which were kept unchanged at 5 trillion yen (60.52 billion U.S. dollars) and 30 trillion yen (363.15 billion U.S. dollars) respectively.

BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his policy board also predict that consumer prices will decrease 0.3 percent this fiscal year compared with their initial forecast for a 0.4 percent decline three months earlier.

The BOJ predicts inflation will pick up to 0.3 percent the following year, higher than its October prediction of 0.1 percent.

“The recovery trend of the Japanese economy is becoming increasingly evident,” Seiji Shiraishi, chief economist at HSBC Securities in Tokyo. “I think there is still about a 30 percent chance for another policy easing around March if the yen strengthens and political pressure remains,” he said.

The benchmark money-market rate reached a three-year high after the central bank drained cash from the banking system to cool economic growth. The renminbi climbed 0.57 percent in the past five days, a fifth weekly gain, and reached the strongest level since China unified official and market exchange rates at the end of 1993. The yuan will continue to appreciate, advancing 6 percent next year, said David Cohen, an economist at Action Economics Ltd. in Singapore.

Policy makers “recognize the usefulness of a stronger currency in curbing inflation,” said Cohen. “The yuan, like other Asian currencies, has very strong fundamentals and the country has a very large current-account surplus.”

The yuan climbed 0.17 percent to 6.5897 per dollar as of 4:30 p.m. in Shanghai, earlier touching a high of 6.5896, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System. Twelve- month non-deliverable forwards were little changed at 6.4608, reflecting bets the currency will gain 2 percent in a year.

The People’s Bank of China set the reference rate higher for the ninth day, at 6.6227 per dollar today compared with 6.6229 yesterday. The yuan is allowed to trade by up to 0.5 percent either side of the so-called central parity rate. The U.S. Dollar Index, a gauge of the greenback’s strength, retreated for the seventh day.

Hu’s Visit
The main appreciation of the yuan will likely happen in the first quarter, with Hu Jintao’s state visit to Washington next month, said Craig Chan, an Asia foreign-exchange strategist at Nomura Singapore Ltd. on Dec. 16. The House of Representatives passed legislation in September letting U.S. companies petition for duties on Chinese imports to compensate for the effect of a weak yuan.

The renminbi will be the top performer among the so-called BRIC nations currencies in the coming year, according to analyst surveys by Bloomberg. China’s currency will strengthen 4.9 percent to 6.28 by the end of 2011, according to the median estimate of 19 analysts in a Bloomberg survey. That’s over double the 2 percent gain projected by 12-month non-deliverable forwards.

Analysts predict Brazil’s real will weaken 2.4 percent, Russia’s ruble will appreciate 0.6 percent and India’s rupee will rise 3.7 percent.

Offshore yuan forwards rose 0.34 percent to 6.5800 per dollar in Hong Kong. Twelve-month deliverable forwards in the city were at 6.5760 today, compared with 6.5725 yesterday.

Zhou Pledge
China’s consumer prices climbed 5.1 percent from a year earlier in November, the biggest gain in 28 months, the statistics bureau said on Dec. 11. The yuan is a denomination of China’s currency, the renminbi.

Central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan pledged in his New Year message to tackle inflation, saying the nation had consolidated its recovery in 2010. Zhou reaffirmed a shift to a “prudent” monetary policy in 2011 from the “moderately loose” stance that countered the financial crisis.

The seven-day repurchase rate, which measures lending costs between banks, advanced seven basis points to 6.34 percent, the highest level since October 2007, according to a daily fixing published at 11 a.m. by the National Interbank Funding Center.

The yield on the 3.67 percent government bond due October 2020 was unchanged at 3.88 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. One-year interest-rate swaps, or the fixed cost needed to receive the floating seven-day repurchase rate, slipped four basis points to 3.17 percent.

Lenders are holding onto funds after policy makers raised banks reserve requirements for the third time in five weeks to curb inflation. The central bank on Dec. 25 also lifted the benchmark lending and deposit rates by 25 basis points, the second increase this quarter.

Policy makers are likely to boost lending and deposit rates by about 2 percentage points more next year, said Tao Dong, chief economist for Asia excluding Japan at Credit Suisse Group AG. in Hong Kong Dec. 22.

The Chinese economy has been awash in liquidity due to government stimulus money and generous lending by state banks. Chinese officials are now concerned about an overheated economy and the inflationary pressures that come with that.

The fact that China’s economy has remained robust during the global recession gives Chinese officials leeway to rein in liquidity. The country has been growing at an average of 10 percent a year, and the strength of the export industry remains high despite a dip in late 2008, when the financial crisis first roiled the United States and then other parts of the world.

But investment in large capital-intensive projects has also been fueling the economic engine and driving up prices.

Analysts have been saying for months that they expect China to raise interest rates throughout 2011.

Earlier this month, the government reported that the consumer price index rose 5.1 percent in November, compared with the same period a year ago. It was the largest increase in three years. Since the spring, the year-on-year increase in the index has been above 3 percent, despite the government’s desire to keep the average increase below 3 percent for the entire year.

Chinese leaders are aware of the political dangers of high inflation. Xinhua, the state news agency, reported on Dec. 17 that Li Keqiang, the vice premier, said at a conference of government officials that “more efforts should be provided to stabilize prices next year.” He added that over the next five years, growth rates should be defined “reasonably.” Mr. Li is expected to take over as prime minister in 2012 from Wen Jiabao, who now oversees the economy.

Officials have signaled throughout the month that moves will be taken to better control spending across the country. China announced on Dec. 3 that it would tighten monetary policy next year, shifting it from “relatively loose to prudent.” That was a clear sign that Chinese officials were intensely concerned about inflation.

On Dec. 15, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a prominent research organization based in Beijing, reported that high inflation and housing prices had contributed to a deepening sense of popular disaffection. The findings of the report were based on a survey of 4,143 people.

Commodity prices were the main concern of urban residents, followed by health care and housing prices, according to the findings, which were reported by Xinhua. Rural residents in this year’s survey said health care was their top concern, followed by commodity prices.

Job satisfaction among those surveyed was at its lowest in four years, according to the academy.

Also on Dec. 15, the central bank said that satisfaction among people with the current level of prices had dropped to an 11-year low. The bank’s findings were based on a survey of 20,000 people during the fourth quarter in 50 cities across China.

The real estate market is another concern. The property market in China has been booming. Rising property prices, along with the government stimulus money and loose bank lending, have spurred new developments across the country. Even long-term residents on the tropical southern island of Hainan have had to grapple with soaring real estate prices from outsiders coming in to buy up land.

Some analysts say this growth has resulted in a gargantuan bubble in the real estate market, while others argue that the capacity will be put to good use.

A record $560 billion of residential property was sold in 2009, an increase of 80 percent over 2008, according to government statistics.

In October, the government increased its benchmark lending rate, in what appeared to be an effort to tamp down real estate speculation.

Until now, low wages have helped to hold down inflation and keep China’s export industry competitive. But those wages in the context of soaring real estate prices mean that migrant workers from the interior of China are becoming less tolerant of poor work conditions on the coasts, where many of China’s export manufacturing factories are located. Many workers are now choosing to stay closer to home in the interior provinces, and some companies are moving their manufacturing centers inland.

Turkiye Is Bankasi AS and Turkiye Garanti Bankasi, the two largest listed lender in Turkey, the plan to give the local bond market as the central bank reduces interest rates. Based in Istanbul Akbank TAS, the third largest, and 20 percent owned by Citigroup Inc., one billion lire (658,000,000 US Dollar) of 178-day licenses sold Dec. 13, the first offering in the fixed income its kind by a turkish retail bank.

Yields on two-year government bonds fell to 7.25 percent yesterday, falling below the bond rates in India for the first time in the tightest level since at least 2006 on the Polish debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. turkish yields fell, inflation fell to 7.3 percent in November, compared to 70 percent a decade ago.

“There is more room for yields will fall, as investors bet that inflation” comes out very low in February and March, “said okte Isik, a trader Finans Invest in Istanbul. “Bonds issued by banks are all linked to this environment of low interest rates. Others will follow, because it is a way of financing at low cost.”

Sponsors revealed three days ago, which applied to regulators to sell up to 3 billion pounds in local currency bonds with different maturities. Isbank applied last week to spend up to 5 billion pounds of debt.

Rarity
Akbank bonds were at a 7.28 percent return, compared with 6.5 percent for June 2011 Turkish lira bonds, data compiled by Bloomberg prices show. Demand for debt sold by Turkish banks will be enhanced by their rarity value, “said Simon Quijano-Evans, chief economist for emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa at Credit Agricole SA Chevreux in Vienna.

“Investors are willing to offer everything that a pickup in yield to buy bonds,” Quijano-Evans said.

Since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan took power in 2003, the gross domestic product at constant prices grew by 34 percent, including contractions in 2008 and 2009, according to the National Institute of Statistics. The expansion requires banks including UniCredit SpA of Italy, National Bank of Greece SA, London-based HSBC Holdings Plc and France’s BNP Paribas SA, the investment banking sector.

New rules
The financial system of the country’s regulatory body for the industry has given permission bond sale will start on 1 October Lira, the publication of a set of rules on its website that the banks to issue debt up to a limit of a formula takes into account the base has authorized its deposits, shares, goods and capital. may be the maximum output of 51 billion lire set, extended, Tevfik Bilgin said the head regulator on December 8.

Akbank and other Turkish banks receiving funds from the bond market, after Moody’s Investors Service, Fitch Ratings and the year the credit ratings Turkey last year Standard & Poor’s. Fitch raised its outlook on its BB + rating, the highest non-investment grade, which uses a “positive” from “stable” on Nov. 24, citing the strength of the Turkish economy and the improvement of public finances.

Rate cut
The central bank reduced the benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to a record level of 6.5 per cent yesterday, after it has been fixed for a year to stem capital inflows from abroad to expand the deficit currents. The bank gave no further information on rates.

An increase in Turkey, investment grade in the general election next year, set for June, also in a decline in bond yields, “said G’rol Ozer, head of fixed income trading and the Istanbul-based Deniz Bank AS. Moody’s and S & P rates Turkey, two levels below investment grade.

“We think that Turkey can be updated by the end of next year,” Ozer said. “It ‘s difficult to define a plan for bond yields to predict now.” Yields on government securities of two years, is likely to fall as low as 6 percent to slow inflation to 5.5 percent, the estimate of the Central Bank by the end of next year, he said.

Mortgages Lag
Bank lending rose 13.7 per cent this year and surpassing the expansion of the sector, and in 2011 will be a year to showcase the industry, “said Bilgin November 12. The amount of outstanding mortgage debt corresponds to Turkey 5 percent of GDP, according to the Central Bank. This compares with the EU average of 49.8 percent from 2008, compiled the latest figures of the European Mortgage Federation.

holdings of foreign investors turkish domestic debt accounted for 12.3 percent of the total exhibition in October from 8.9 percent in January, the data on the website of the Ministry of Finance.

denominated domestic investors are likely to be the pillar of the corporate bond market in pounds, which have less liquid market for the turkish government bonds and not so much economically, said Kieran Curtis, managing more than 2,000,000,000 US Dollar in emerging market bonds contribute Aviva Investors in London.

“The results do not seem that attractive, liquidity is not that fantastic and the spreads are not going well,” said Curtis, adding that its funds “light” is underweight bonds turkish, because “real yields are not as interesting and there are other interesting coins to invest in ”

The government is selling bonds for less than a percentage of debt maturing in 2011 than this year, with the rate decreases to 88 percent or 135 billion lire, from 90 percent in 2010, said Minister of Finance October 28.

“The Treasury should not pull up a little more space for private sector bonds,” Quijano-Evans said. “Once, in the long term, bonds, banks can offer to get the prize being a bit ‘more attractive than the national debt.”

“Inflation is beginning to worry us,” Chairman Sergey Ignatiev told reporters yesterday in Moscow. The central bank will “primarily” use its interest-rate policy to control rising prices, he said.

Policy makers are weighing the first rate increase since 2008 after inflation accelerated to the fastest in 11 months in November. The IMF urged Russia to focus monetary policy “squarely on reducing inflation” as the Washington-based fund raised its forecast for prices to grow 8.5 percent from about 6 percent.

“While the sharp increase in inflation in recent months has been driven largely by a drought-related spike in food prices, non-food prices have also been increasing steadily since July,” Juha Kahkonen, chief of the IMF’s Russia mission, said in a statement today. “Accordingly, an increase in policy interest rates would seem warranted to prevent the second-round effects of food-price increases from taking hold.”

Ruble Climbs
The ruble climbed to its strongest level in almost a month against the dollar, surging 0.5 percent to 30.91 per greenback, the strongest since Nov. 13, by the 5 p.m. close in Moscow, and gained versus the euro as investors shunned European assets for the prospect of higher Russian returns.

The price of oil, Russia’s chief export earner, also gained today by as much as 1.3 percent to $89.42 a barrel in New York.

Higher interest rates would bolster the ruble’s appeal as a target for the carry trade, where investors borrow funds in countries where interest rates are lower and then invest the money where the returns are higher.

The central bank lowered its main refinancing rate 14 times between April 2009 and May this year and has since kept the rate at 7.75 percent for six months as policy makers sought to keep a lid on prices without damping the economy’s recovery from a 7.9 percent slump last year.

The inflation rate may reach 8.4 percent this year after higher food costs and a weaker ruble fanned price-growth, Ignatiev said yesterday. The worst drought in at least half a century triggered crop losses and drove up food costs after price growth slowed to a record-low 5.5 percent in July.

Maintain Policy
While Bank Rossii said Nov. 26 that it was committed to “monetary stimulus,” the bank’s statement omitted a previous pledge to maintain that policy “for the coming months.”

“Russia’s central bank is hawkish on rates amid inflation pressure, admitting refinancing rates could be hiked in the first quarter,” VTB Capital analysts led by Dmitry Dmitriev in Moscow said yesterday in a note to clients. “We also stress the mounting prospect of a rate hike in early 2011.”

Bank Rossii may lift the benchmark rate by a quarter-point by the end of March, according to the median estimate of 19 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Traders are pricing in 0.58 percentage points of increases over the next three months, forward-rate agreements show.

The Economy Ministry estimates gross domestic product will grow 3.8 percent this year, less than the 4 percent initially forecast by the government. GDP expanded an annual 2.7 percent in the third quarter, the slowest pace this year.

Chinese Growth
China’s economy expanded three times faster, at 9.6 percent last quarter, and India’s grew an annual 8.9 percent in the three months through September. The Indian economy is likely to expand 8.5 percent in the fiscal year through March, the most in three years, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Nov. 20.

In addition to considering rate increases, Bank Rossii may combat inflation by increasing reserve requirements for banks if capital inflows resume, Ignatiev said today. Net capital outflow was about $9 billion last month, raising the total for the first 11 months of the year to $29 billion, Ignatiev said.

Russia’s emerging-market peers, including Brazil and China, have recently tightened policy to head off inflationary pressure as domestic demand expands.

Brazil’s central bank last week raised reserve and capital requirements to slow consumer lending. China has increased reserve requirements five times this year, with the latest taking effect Nov. 29.

More Active
Turkey’s central bank said Nov. 29 that it may make “more active” use of reserve requirements to stem foreign currency inflows. Peru’s central bank raised its benchmark lending rate five times this year and increased reserve requirements to prevent inflation from exceeding the government’s target range.

Russia’s key rate is lower than Brazil’s benchmark Selic overnight rate, which policy makers increased three times this year to 10.75 percent. India’s central bank raised rates for a sixth time this year on Nov. 2, boosting the repurchase rate by a quarter-point to 6.25 percent and the reverse repurchase rate by a similar margin to 5.25 percent.

In Russia, bank lending growth is set to accelerate next year, expanding 20 percent in nominal terms, Ignatiev said. Loans have increased about 13 percent this year, he said.

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HDFC, announced a hike in its benchmark lending rate by 75 basis points, making HDFC home loan dearer for existing borrowers. HDFC has raised its retail prime lending rate (RPLR) by 0.75 per cent with effect from December 1, 2010 , it said in a statement. With this revision the RPLR goes up from 14.25 per cent to 15 per cent.

Soon after, ICICI Bank decided to raise deposit and lending rates by up to 0.50 per cent (50 basis points).

The country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Saturday said it too could raise deposit rates in the similar range.

The announcements came a day after RBI Governor D Subbarao asked banks to hike deposit rates and lower lending rates, with a view to raising the level of national savings, as well as to encourage investments needed for double-digit growth.

“Deposit rates could go up by 50 basis points or more” SBI Chairman O P Bhatt told reporters on the sidelines of the annual Bancon in Mumbai. Bhatt said that the rate hike could be announced.

Stating that there has been a slight uptick in demand for credit, Bhatt said “If credit growth picks up, more deposits can be attracted into the banking system by better pricing which is beginning to happen’In the current situation, they (deposit rates) can only go up. ”

With credit demand picking up and liquidity crunch yet to ease, ICICI Bank has decided to raise interest rates on fixed deposits of various tenors by 0.25-0.50 per cent.

However, contrary to RBI’s suggestion that banks should lower lending rates, ICICI has decided to increase benchmark prime-lending rate and its Floating Reference Rate (FRR) for consumer loans or including home loans by 50 basis points.

The new rates would be effective from December 6, ICICI Bank said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Bhatt exuded confidence that the bank will be able to achieve a credit growth of 19 per cent in the current fiscal, as both retail and investment demands are picking up.

Liquidity crunch, something which the Reserve Bank has flagged as a concern, is already forcing lenders to jostle for a greater share of funds by increasing deposit rates.

Prospects of a very large amount getting drained out of the system due to the third quarter advance tax payments this month are only expected to compound the problem.

The liquidity situation will ease up by the last quarter of the fiscal as the Government spending will increase then, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisor C Rangarajan said. He added that generally public spending increases in the last quarter of the fiscal.

On lending rates, Bhatt said SBI will take a call only next month as it has already increased newly introduced benchmark lending rate, base rate, below which banks can’t lend once this quarter.

A call on the rates under the old BPLR (benchmark prime lending rate) will also be taken next quarter, he indicated.