Question

    Which of the following statements are not true regarding External Benchmark Rates

    I. All new floating rate personal or retail loans (housing, auto, etc.) and floating rate loans extended by banks to Micro and Small Enterprises from October 01, 2019 and floating rate loans to Medium Enterprises from April 01, 2020 shall be benchmarked with external benchmark rates

    II. External Benchmark rates may consist of Reserve Bank of India policy repo rate Government of India 3-Months Treasury Bill yield published by the Financial Benchmarks India Private Ltd (FBIL)

    III. Banks are free to offer such external benchmark linked loans to other types of borrowers as well (other than I)

    IV. the adoption of multiple benchmarks by the same bank is not allowed within a loan category

    A Only I, II are correct Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only I and IV are correct Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only III and IV are correct Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D All are correct Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E All are incorrect Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The correct answer is D

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