Credit growth at 12% beats 10% deposit rise in April-Jan
Mumbai: Bank credit growth continued to outpace deposit mobilisation this financial year, tightening system liquidity even as lenders step up loan disbursements. By Jan-end 2026, the incremental credit-deposit (CD) ratio had climbed to 96.9%, sharply higher than the outstanding CD ratio of 82.3%, indicating that banks lent out nearly Rs 97 for every Rs 100…