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ICICI Bank says too early for lending rate cuts
Diwakar Gupta, managing director and chief finance officer, SBI, discusses the impact of the RBI’s decision with NDTV Profit’s Ira Dugal. He said he was not expecting the bank to take such an action. “A cut in SLR would not create a major impact but it wi
31 Jul 2012, 03:04 PM IST 
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Any cuts in lending rates by Indian banks will depend on credit pickup and overall liquidity situation, even after the central bank cut the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR), the chief executive of top private lender ICICI Bank said on Tuesday.
The RBI on Tuesday left interest rates unchanged for the second straight review, but unexpectedly cut the SLR, the minimum requirement for banks' government bond holdings, to 23 percent of deposits from 24 percent, in a move to free up liquidity.
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