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FM Sitharaman Pushes Banks To Make FDs More Attractive For The Young | MINT Explains



An entire generation of millennials, genzs have been pursued through mass media, influencers, or modern day internet, with a notion that FDs , although safe, do not give as good returns as other avenues like equities of MFs. And that has started worrying banks and the FM. In a recent meeting with the heads of the PSBs the FM highlighted data by SBI Research suggesting that bank deposits, traditionally favoured for their safety & liquidity and losing their appeal amongst younger investors.

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20 comments
@44mahendrasharma

Ye FM and RBI governor SEBI cheif ko kyun nahi bolte FD mein paisa lagane ki. 100-200 crore to aise hi bank FD mein ajaenge

@anilgautam3395

Attractive kya matlab interest ke saath me tinder date denge? 😂

@sanujitroy6830

fd now need to have good two digit deposit rates

@sanujitroy6830

fd is the lucrative business atmosphere and time for banks to provide higher double digit interest rates as quickly as possible

@knowledgevalleyiasifsips8884

Wants to increase bank deposits so they can give loan to the rich and they can run away with it😢

@getvimlesh

Nirmala ji & her BS
Remove tax on interest accrued on FD & public will start buying FDs.
Inke pet me dard hai ki young generation xootiya kyun nahi ban rahi 😂

@Abhishek-ox3qk

Govt is worried bcz when market will fall then there will be liquidity issue which creates more problems

Public is chotia, once they will loss they will realise 😂

@SayakRoy009

Interest on FD gets taxed at 30 percentage for me while capital gains tax is 12.5 also MF offers higher returns, do the math yourself