Credit creation & Credit control Methods
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Interest 10 %
(per annum)
A - Depositor
CRR 4.5% Rs.
BANK SBI 95.5
Rs 100
SLR 23%
Primary
deposit
Rs. 72.5
Excess reserve
Borrower
What would be the break even interest rate?
Credit control Methods
– Cash reserve Ratio
– Statutory Liquidity Ratio
– Bank rate or discount rate policy
– Repo & Reverse repo rate policy
• Selective credit controls
– Regulation of margin requirement
• margin requirements on loans for purchasing or carrying
securities
– Regulation of consumer credit
• Minimum down payments and maximum periods of repayment.
– Rationing of credit
– Direct action
– Moral suasion
– Publicity
Glossary of Terms
– Bank rate (also Discount rate) is the rate of interest a central bank
charges on the loans and advances that it extends to commercial banks.
(As on 27.09.10, 6.0%) As on 10.10.2012, 9.0%( As on 27.08.2019..
– Repo Rate (repurchase agreement rate) is the rate at which RBI
(central bank) lends short-term money to commercial banks. (As on
27.09.10, 6.0%) As on 10.10.2012, 8.0%( As on 27.08.2019..
– Reverse Repo Rate is the rate at which banks park short-term funds with
RBI (central bank). (As on 27.09.10, 5.0%) As on 10.10.2012, 7.0% ( As
on 27.08.2019..
Glossary of Terms
– Cash Reserve ratio (CRR) is the (ratio) amount of funds (out of deposit)
that the banks have to keep with central bank. (As on 27.09.10, 6.0%) As
on 10.10.2012,4.5% ( As on 27.08.2019..
– Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is the (ratio) amount a commercial bank
needs to maintain in the form of cash or gold or government approved
securities before providing credit to its customers. (As on 27.09.10, 25%)
As on 10.10.2012, 23% ( As on 27.08.2019..
– Prime Lending Rate (PLR) is the rate of interest at which banks lend to
their credit-worthy or favored customers. It is treated as benchmark rate
for most of retail and term loans.
– Ninja loans & sub-prime crisis
– Now, in the place of PLR we have base rate (7.5 to 8.0%) As on
10.10.2012, 10 to 10.5 ( As on 27.08.2019..
Deposit insurance and credit guarantee corporation (DICGC)
• In the event of a bank failure, DICGC protects bank deposits
that are payable in India.
– What is the maximum deposit amount insured by the DICGC?
– Each depositor in a bank is insured upto a maximum of Rs.1,00,000
(Rupees One Lakh) for both principal and interest amount held by him in
the same capacity and same right as on the date of
liquidation/cancellation of bank's licence or the date on which the scheme
of amalgamation/merger/reconstruction comes into force.
– Ref: http://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=64