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STATE BANK OF INDIA: Cuts Benchmark Prime Lending Rate to 12.25%
State Bank of India has decided to cuts its Benchmark Prime Lending Rate, a filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange discloses.
Starting Feb. 27, 2008, SBAR is revised downwards by 25 basis points from 12.50% p.a. to 12.25% p.a.
Headquartered in Mumbai, State Bank of India -- http://www.sbi.co.in/ -- is a financial services group operating primarily in the banking industry. Its core operations include Treasury Operations, Corporate Banking Group, National Banking Group and International Banking Group.
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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, on June 18, 2007, assigned its 'BB' issue rating to the State Bank of India's proposed USNZ$225 million Hybrid Tier I perpetual notes under its USNZ$5 billion MTN program. The Hybrid Tier I notes will be perpetual notes with a call option 10 years from the date of issue.
As reported in the Troubled Company Reporter-Asia Pacific on Feb. 2, 2007, Fitch Ratings affirmed the bank's 'C' individual rating.
Moody's Investors Service placed a Ba2/Not Primerating on State Bank of India's foreign currency bank deposits, Ba2/Not Prime on Financial Strength Rating in June 2006.
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