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Major SOE Banks Lower Deposit Interest Rates - Times

CHINA PRESS
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Several Chinese major state-owned banks have lowered their personal deposit interest rates since September 15, following cuts in the benchmark Loan Prime Rates in August, the Securities Times reported citing unnamed sources. The interest rates on three-year term deposits and large-denomination certificates of deposit were lowered by 15 bps. Major banks last lowered their deposit interest rates in late April, after the central bank established a market-based mechanism for deposit interest rates which refers to the 10-year treasury bond yield and 1-year LPR.

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