Your Ad Here

Thursday, October 23, 2008

ICICI Bank hikes home loan rates, quietly

ICICI Home Finance Co (I-HFC), the home-loan arm and subsidiary of ICICI Bank, has increased the interest rate on its new home loans by 1 percentage point .

The bank's floating rate loan has been raised from 12 per cent to 13 per cent, while its fixed rate loan stands at 16.5 per cent.

These rates are the highest in the industry, but will not be applicable to existing customers.

The country's largest home loans provider increased rates on October 10, without making any formal announcement. The rate hike was discovered by some customers who went to I-HFC to take a home loan.

"We were not sent any mail as the bank has not increased the benchmark prime lending rate but has increased the margin," said a direct sales associate (DSA) of ICICI Bank.

To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com

Labels: , , , , , , ,

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

India profile tanks, Foreign Institutional Investors pullout sinks Sensex

Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIS) pressed the panic button as global agency Fitch downgraded India's credit profile to "negative". Sensex, BSE's 30-share benchmark index, dropped to lowest levels in 15 months as foreign funds sold shares worth Rs 702.50 crore on Tuesday alone.

ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank, two of India's three largest banks, tumbled. Sensex fell 654.32 points, or 4.9 per cent, to 12,676.19. All stocks dropped on the index. The NSE Nifty dropped 178.60 points, or 4.4 per cent, to 3,861.10.

"Money is flying out of emerging markets and inflows into India have been negative so fax:" said Madhavi Vora of ULJK Securities, a broking firm. "There is a major liquidity crunch along with other external factors like political uncertainty that are ailing markets."

To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com

Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,