New Delhi: ICICI Bank has revised the external benchmark lending rate (EBLR) to 8.10 per cent, and Bank of Baroda (BoB) raised the rate to 6.90 per cent after the RBI hiked the key repo rate.
In an out of turn Monetary Committee Meeting (MPC), the Reserve Bank on Wednesday announced to hike the benchmark repo rate — the short term lending rate it charges to banks — by 0.40 per cent to 4.40 per cent with immediate effect, aimed at taming the rising inflation caused by the global geopolitical situation.
The rate increase in the EBLR will push up the cost for most of the personal loans, auto and home loans for customers.
RBI policy repo rate effective May 4, 2022, is 4.40 per cent, ICICI Bank said.
"ICICI Bank External Benchmark Lending Rate (I-EBLR) is referenced to RBI policy repo rate with a mark-up over repo rate. I-EBLR is 8.10 per cent p.a.p.m. effective May 4, 2022," the bank said.
The EBLR moves up or down in accordance with the movement in the repo rate.
State-owned Bank of Baroda also revised the external benchmark linked lending rate, with effect from May 5, 2022.
"For retail loans applicable BRLLR is 6.90 per cent with effect from May 5, 2022 (current RBI repo rate:4.40 per cent plus mark up of 2.50 per cent)," Bank of Baroda said.
Bank of Baroda had introduced Baroda Repo Linked Lending Rate (BRLLR) in respect of all retail lending products from October 2019.
The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) charges the EBLR at 6.65 per cent plus the credit risk premium, with effect from April 1, 2022.
EBLR is a sum of external benchmark rate (EBR) and credit risk premium (CRP).
Last month, State Bank of India hiked the marginal cost-based lending rate (MCLR) by 10 basis points across all tenures.
With the revision, the benchmark one-year MCLR — against which most of the consumer loans are priced — increased to 7.10 per cent per annum.