Explore how the prime rate influences consumer loans like mortgages, versus the repo rate's role in managing the money supply and short-term lending among banks.
South Africa is reviewing the main reference rate commercial banks use to price trillions of rands of loans to clients.
Changing the prime interest benchmark may alter optics and signalling, but it will not reduce borrowing costs in any durable way, writes Stuart Theobald.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (Nasdaq: HBAN) announced that its prime rate is decreasing from 7.00 percent to 6.75 percent, effective December 11, ...
The Competition Commission of South Africa is investigating the prime lending rates, sparking mixed reactions from industry ...