Rapid Investments Ltd.

Aforementioned lending rate may vary for cases where the loan has been sanctioned by the Company without availability of adequate security from the borrower. The rate of interest for such loans shall be governed by the respective product policy/ manuals of the Company which shall not be higher than 40% p.a.

Loans below approved cost of lending funds

Taking into account the business considerations and competition in the market the Company may grant advances at IRR below the cost of lending funds, in accordance with the “Policy for Determining Interest Rates, Processing & Other Charges”, basis due evaluation and approval as per the defined matrix. The overall size of such loans shall not exceed the Tier I Capital of the Company as per the last audited/ limited review financials.

Interest Rate Policy & Model

Interest Rate Determination Methodology
The ALCO after giving due consideration to the following factors arrives at the interest rate to be charged from the customers:

i. Weighted Average Cost of Funds/ Capital:
The Company borrows fund through Bank Term loans, Non-Convertible Debentures, Commercial paper and subordinate debt, etc. from the investors. Additional to the borrowing, the Company also has equity portion and the cost of such equity is considered to arrive at the weighted average cost of capital. The weighted average cost of borrowed funds as well as costs incidental to those borrowings, is arrived at after taking into consideration the average tenure, market liquidity and refinancing avenues. The cost of raising such funds and servicing the equity capital is also included in the cost of funds.

ii. Negative Carry on Investment
The Company keeps liquidity buffer in the form of investments into liquid funds in compliance with RBI guidelines and to manage liquidity risk and has to bear negative carry on those investments too.

iii. Operating cost
It includes employee expenses, branch related fixed and variable costs, operations costs, sales and marketing expenses, technology expenses, expenses related to sourcing and recovery, etc.

iv. ALM Mismatch Cost
The Company borrows funds through short term and long term products and to comply with the regulatory guidelines, it needs to manage ALM gaps under certain limits imposed by the regulator, while taking in to account the prepayments made by the customers.

v. Credit/Default Risk Premium
Based on risk gradation of the customer, credit/ default risk premium is computed on a case to case basis. This will also cover the risk pertaining to nature and value of collaterals, overall risk profile of the customer, industry trends etc.

vi. Expected ROA
Expected Return on assets is the return expected by the company on its assets. The Company expects a ROA of 3-4% in normal course of business which may vary from this range depending upon the exceptional business scenarios.

Interest Rate Policy

i. The Company shall adopt a mechanism for computation/ levying of interest rate on the customers in a manner that the rate of interest for same product and tenure availed during the same period by separate customers would not be standardized and can vary based on perceived risk associated, CIBIL Score, security vintage/ Age, LTV, geographical location and other underwriting parameters.

ii. Changes in interest rates would be decided at any periodicity, depending upon market volatility and competitor review.

iii. The annualized rate of interest would be intimated to the customer. The interest rate would be computed on daily balances basis and charged on monthly/ quarterly/ half yearly rest or such other rest as the ALCO decides in accordance with applicable rules and regulations. Specific terms in this regard would be specified through the relevant product manuals and/or loan agreement.

iv. The interest reset period for variable rate lending would be decided by the Company from time to time, applying the same decision criteria as considered for fixing of interest rates.

v. Interest rates would be intimated to the customers at the time of sanction/ availing of the loan and the EMI apportionment towards interest and principal dues would be made available to the customer.

vi. Interest shall be deemed payable immediately on due date as communicated and no grace period for payment of interest shall be allowed. Any default/ delay in payment of interest or principal shall impact the asset classification status of the account in accordance with relevant RBI guidelines.

vii. Besides normal interest, the Company may levy additional interest for adhoc facilities, penal interest for any delay or default in making payments of any dues. The levy or waiver of these additional or penal interests for different products or facilities would be decided within the boundaries prescribed in the respective product manuals.

viii. Interest changes would be prospective in effect and intimation of change of interest or other charges would be communicated to customers in a manner deemed fit, as per terms of the loan documents.

ix. In case of staggered disbursements, the rates of interest would be subjected to review and the same may vary according to the prevailing rate at the time of successive disbursements or as may be decided by the Company.

x. Claims for refund or waiver of such charges/penal interest/additional interest would normally not be entertained by the Company and it is the sole and absolute discretion of the Company to deal with such requests.

Processing /Documentation and Other Charges

i. Sourcing Costs at the time of the application:

a. These costs are incurred by the Company before the customer takes his loan disbursement and will be covered through the charges deducted or collected from the disbursement amount. These costs include acquisition, verification, legal & valuation, credit appraisal etc.

b. All processing /documentation and other charges recovered are expressly stated in the loan execution documents. They may vary based on the loan product, exposure limit, customer segment, geographical location of the customer etc.

c. In the event of cancellation of loans at the behest of the customer or due to insufficiencies identified in the details submitted by the customer, the Company shall have the right to levy cancellation charges on the customer due to the cost incurred by the Company. The Company shall not levy processing fees for customers to whom cancellations charges are levied. In case, processing fees has been paid by the customer, the same shall be set off from the cancellation charges.

ii. Costs incurred during the tenure of the loan:

a. Besides interest, other financial charges such as cheque bouncing charges, cheque swaps, cash handling charges, RTGS/other remittance charges, commitment fees, charges on various other services or such other charges as may be communicated/ intimated to the customer through the sanction letter/ loan agreement would be levied by the Company wherever considered necessary. or through any other mode thereafter.

b. Besides these, statutory charges such as the goods and service tax and other cess would be collected at applicable/ prevailing rates from time to time. Any revision in these charges would be with prospective effect. These charges would be decided collectively by the management of the Company.

iii. Charges applicable at the time of closure of the loan These will include pre-payment & foreclosure charges subject to RBI guidelines, repossession and other legal expenses related to recovery of over dues.

iv. All charges and any revisions thereof are approved by the Executive Committee of the Management as a part of the product manuals or separately. Such charges/ revisions thereof shall also be submitted to the Board in the subsequent Board meeting.

Policy Severable

This policy read with RBI Master Direction constitutes the entire document in relation to its subject matter. In the event that any term, condition or provision of this policy being held to be a violation of any applicable law, statute or regulation, the same shall be severable from the rest of this policy and shall be of no force and effect, and this policy shall remain in full force and effect as if such term, condition or provision had not originally been contained in this Policy.

Further, the regulatory guidelines as prescribed shall prevail in the event of any amendments or requirements not incorporated in the policy.

Amendment

Any change in the policy shall be approved by the Board of Directors of the Company. Any amendment in the regulatory guidelines shall prevail and necessary amendment shall be carried out at a subsequent date in the policy. The Board of Directors of the Company shall have the right to withdraw and / or amend any part of this policy or the entire policy, at any time, as it deems fit, or from time to time, subject to applicable law in force.