According to the SBI press release, “This is the 14th consecutive reduction in the Bank’s MCLR. With this revision, SBI’s MCLR upto 3 months tenor comes down to 6.65 per cent p.a., which is on par with the External Benchmark based Lending Rate(EBLR) of SBI.”
SBI’s MCLR continues to be the lowest in the market, as per the release.
In June, the bank slashed its key lending rates, the MCLR and the external benchmark rate (EBR), by 25 basis points and 40 basis points respectively, across tenors. The one-year MCLR had come down to 7 per cent per annum.
The bank also passed on the entire 40 bps cut in repo rate (announced by the Reserve Bank of India in its monetary policy review) to its borrowers availing loans linked to external benchmark lending rate as well as repo-linked lending rate. With this SBI’s EBR and RLLR came down by 40 bps to 6.65 per cent and 6.25 per cent respectively.