If the RBI has its way, banks may have to stop recovering prepayment charges from home loan borrowers in the case of floating rate loans. Banks will also have to bear the onus of proving that a disputed ATM or Internet-based transaction is due to the customer's negligence or mistake.
The RBI is of the opinion that floating rate loans pass on the interest rate risk from banks, which are much better placed to manage it, to borrowers. Thus, banks only substitute interest rate risk with potential credit risk. However, in the case of fixed rate loans, banks can charge the appropriate prepayment penalties. The RBI has also told banks to offer long-term fixed rate housing loans to their customers and address their market liability mismatch by recourse to the Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) market
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