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Deposit rate reform to have ‘limited’ impact
    2021-06-22  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE country’s reforms to the way banks calculate deposit rates will have only a limited impact on financial institutions and depositors, and banks do not need to sharply adjust deposit rates, an industry body overseeing rates said yesterday.

The body, which is supervised by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said the previous practice of multiplying the benchmark rate helped push up long-term rates and led to competition among banks to lure deposits by raising rates or unveiling innovative products.

Starting yesterday, China allows banks to set ceilings on deposit rates by adding basis points to the benchmark rate, a shift from the previous practice of multiplying the benchmark rate, said the Self-Disciplinary Mechanism for the Pricing of Market-Oriented Interest Rates, the industry body.

Ceilings on banks’ deposit rates with maturities of more than one year have declined following the reforms, while ceilings on banks’ time deposit rates with maturities of six months or less have risen, according to the body.

Sources have said previously that China plans to reform the way banks calculate deposit rates, setting new ceilings of up to 75 basis points above the benchmark rate for some lenders.

All banks will be allowed to add up to 20 basis points (bps) to the benchmark rate on demand deposits and small Chinese banks and foreign banks will be permitted to add up to 75 bps to the benchmark rate on time deposit rates, they said.

A reasonable margin between deposit rates of small- and medium-sized banks and those of State-owned banks will be conducive to maintaining the current relatively balanced market competition environment, the industry body said.

In October 2015, the PBOC scrapped the ceiling on bank deposit rates, which are still constrained by its window guidance and pricing mechanism. The PBOC has kept the benchmark deposit rate unchanged at 1.5 percent since then.(SD-Agencies)

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