Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : None of the above
The correct answer is None of the above. - The following rates are fixed by banks themselves and are not considered to be key policy rates
- Base Rate
- Interest Rates on Saving Accounts
- Interest Rates on Current Accounts
- RBI lends to the commercial banks through its discount window to help other banks meet depositors’ demands and reserve requirements.
- The interest rate that the RBI charges the banks for this is called the Bank rate.
- If the RBI wants to increase liquidity and money supply in the market, it will decrease the bank rate, and vice versa.
- Bank Rate and Repo Rate are two rates on which RBI lends to other banks.
- However, the key difference is that Repo Rate is the rate at which RBI lends to banks for short periods.
- In Repo Rate, there is no direct lending but the lending is done by RBI buying government bonds from banks with an agreement to sell them back at a fixed rate.
- Reverse repo rate is the rate of interest at which the RBI borrows funds from other banks in the short term.
- Opposite to Repo, Reverse Repo is done by RBI selling government bonds to banks with the commitment to buy them back at a future date.
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