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How sly banks plotted to avoid paying interest on your deposits

Banks hatched a clever plan to avoid paying interest on your deposits in the wake of the rate cap law, a new report shows.

The lenders defied the regulator and changed interest-earning deposit accounts into transactional accounts to shield themselves from the deposit rate imposed by the Banking Amendment law.

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