Loans to NBFCs, trade and retail drive credit growth in October

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Credit growth moderated in October as lending to all major sectors including retail, industry and loans to services slowed down as also due to the merger impact of HDFC with HDFC Bank...

On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit rose 15.3 per cent in October 2023 compared with 18.3 per cent a year ago according to the latest data on sectoral deployment of bank credit was released by the Reserve Bank of India largely due to the merger impact of HDFc with HDFC Bank..

Excluding the merger impact, credit offtake is higher 19.8 percent in October this year...

Retail loans decelerated to 18.0 per cent (y-o-y) in October 2023 against to 20.5 per cent a year ago due to moderation in credit growth to housing..

Among major industries, credit growth (y-o-y) to basic metal & metal products, food processing and textiles accelerated in October 2023 as compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, while that to all engineering, chemicals and chemical products and infrastructure decelerated...

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