IN a big relief for credit card issuers who are facing a rising tide of bad loans since the past few quarters (delinquencies are at nearing double-digit mark now; in June 2024 quarter it soared by 110 bps to 7.6%), the Supreme Court, over the weekend, has given them a free hand to set interest rates for late payments, defaults and even on the outstanding dues.
Not that their hands were tied till now--in a strict legal sense they were, but not in practice as even when the matter was subjudice since February 2009, card issuers were regularly increasing their interest rates which now vary from a low of 45% (3.8% per month) to a high of 55% annually or 4.5% per month on certain cards.
The December 20 ruling by a two-judge Supreme Court bench of Bela Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma, goes back to a 2008 order of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) that capped credit card interest rates at 30% per annum.
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