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Bank of Maharashtra cuts base rate by 25 basis points to 10%

The Pune-based lender had cut its base rate or the minimum lending rate last December by 15 basis points to 10.25%.

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State-run Bank of Maharashtra today trimmed its base rate by 25 basis points to 10%, effective Monday, following its larger peers, which will bring down the cost of home, car and retail loans.

The move comes ahead of the second bi-monthly monetary policy announcement on Tuesday, wherein the Reserve Bank is widely expected to slash policy rates following sharp drop in inflation and factory output numbers in recent months.

The Pune-based lender had cut its base rate or the minimum lending rate last December by 15 basis points to 10.25%.

Commenting on the move, its executive director R K Gupta said, "It is hoped to boost housing, car and SME loans and other retails loans credit off-take in the current year." Soon after the April 7 policy, wherein RBI Governor

Raghuram Rajan had blasted banks for not cutting rates despite the RBI doing so twice in the year, major banks led by SBI, ICICI, HDFC, among others had reduced their lending rates by 10-15 basis points.

In its first monetary policy review for 2015-16 on April 7, Rajan had kept the repo rate -- the rate at which it lends to the banks -- unchanged at 7.50%.

However, outside its monetary policy review, RBI effected a cut in repo rate by an equal margin of 0.25% each in January and March this year. 

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