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To a certain extent the banks do. But the Fed, which lends money to banks, can have an impact on it depending on what interest they charge the banks.
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interest rate banks charge their best customers
repo rate - is the interest rate that reserve bank use to charge commercial banks repo rate - is the interest rate that reserve bank uses to charge commercial banks
Banks make money by lending money to people and charging people for borrowing. The amount banks charge is called interest. Banks borrow money from other people and pay them interest on the amount borrowed. Banks charge more interest on the money they lend than they pay one the money they borrow. That is how they make money. When people deposit money with a bank, the bank is literally borrowing money from some people so they can lend it to other people. That is why banks pay interest.
The banks or lenders charge interest. The amount depends on your credit.
The central bank does not directly determine the rates but the rates that it fixes like the Repo rate, Cash reserve ratio etc have a direct impact on the rates banks charge. When the repo rate is less and CRR is less then banks charge a lesser rate of interest and vice versa.
They charge a much higher interest on loans than they pay on deposits.
prime rate
Federal Funds Rate
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