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HDFC Bank FCNR(B) Deposit

HDFC Bank's FCNR(B) term deposit keeps eligible NRI funds in one of seven foreign currencies, with fully repatriable principal/interest and a currency-specific dated rate table.

First-party evidencePublished researchReviewed September 10, 2026Active
Current rate evidenceRates are currency- and tenure-specific. The reviewed schedule effective 1 September 2026 ranges, for example, from 3.80% USD and 3.75% GBP at 1 year to under 2 years, with different rates for EUR, JPY, AUD, CAD and SGD.
Currency / amount / tenureTenure is generally 1 to 5 years under FCNR rules; supported currencies are USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, AUD, CAD and SGD.
Premature withdrawal / liquidityNo interest is paid if withdrawn before completing one year. For ordinary current FCNR deposits, premature interest is recalculated using the booked-date rate applicable to the actual period; HDFC currently states no penalty on ordinary premature FCNR closure.
Deposit-state / funding ruleFCNR is a foreign-currency term-deposit state, not an INR NRE/NRO rate variant. Compare the chosen currency’s own rate curve and tenure.
Research processPublished by littleden.blog

Structured from first-party bank/issuer evidence. This page does not claim personal hands-on product use unless that experience is explicitly stated.

2 first-party sources
Last checkedSeptember 10, 2026

Recorded source review date, not a claim that the product changed that day.

Maintenance stateWithin scheduled review window

Target recheck: October 10, 2026.

Critical decision facts

Rate, tenure, liquidity and booking conditions belong together.

A headline deposit rate is incomplete without the dated schedule, tenure band, customer category and premature-withdrawal rules.

01 · Current rate evidenceRates are currency- and tenure-specific. The reviewed schedule effective 1 September 2026 ranges, for example, from 3.80% USD and 3.75% GBP at 1 year to under 2 years, with different rates for EUR, JPY, AUD, CAD and SGD.
02 · Currency / amount / tenureTenure is generally 1 to 5 years under FCNR rules; supported currencies are USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, AUD, CAD and SGD.
03 · Premature withdrawal / liquidityNo interest is paid if withdrawn before completing one year. For ordinary current FCNR deposits, premature interest is recalculated using the booked-date rate applicable to the actual period; HDFC currently states no penalty on ordinary premature FCNR closure.
04 · Deposit-state / funding ruleFCNR is a foreign-currency term-deposit state, not an INR NRE/NRO rate variant. Compare the chosen currency’s own rate curve and tenure.
Exact product-type evidence

Fixed deposit evidence stays in its own structure.

Specialist fields below remain source-scoped. Missing values stay missing; one banking product type is never used to manufacture facts for another.

Foreign-currency rate table

Keep currency and tenure attached to every FCNR(B) rate.

These are nominal annual rates from the reviewed first-party schedule. A blank means the bank did not quote that currency for that tenure; no rate is inferred.

TenureGBPUSDEURJPYAUDCADSGD
1 year to <2 years3.75%3.80%2.15%0.80%4.15%2.15%1.05%
2 years to <3 years3.60%3.55%1.90%3.90%2.05%1.10%
3 years to <4 years3.50%3.50%1.80%3.85%2.00%1.25%
4 years to <5 years3.40%3.15%1.65%3.80%1.95%1.35%
5 years only3.40%3.15%1.65%3.80%1.95%1.35%

Rate basis: HDFC FCNR(B) currency-specific schedule effective 1 September 2026; rates are not normalized into the INR FD finder. · Effective/reference date: September 1, 2026

Rate history

Dated deposit-rate snapshots.

Effective-date evidence is preserved instead of silently replacing an older rate when a bank reprices new deposits.

Observed September 12, 2026
FCNR(B) currency table effective 1 Sep 2026; 1y–<2y includes USD 3.80%, GBP 3.75%, EUR 2.15%, JPY 0.80%, AUD 4.15%, CAD 2.15%, SGD 1.05%.

HDFC FCNR(B) currency-specific schedule effective 1 September 2026; rates are not normalized into the INR FD finder.

Maintained terms

Fees, balances, benefits, limits and eligibility without a single-score shortcut.

These six fields are the cross-product layer. The specialist section above controls whenever a type-specific field is more precise.

Current rate evidenceRates are currency- and tenure-specific. The reviewed schedule effective 1 September 2026 ranges, for example, from 3.80% USD and 3.75% GBP at 1 year to under 2 years, with different rates for EUR, JPY, AUD, CAD and SGD.
Currency / amount / tenureTenure is generally 1 to 5 years under FCNR rules; supported currencies are USD, GBP, EUR, JPY, AUD, CAD and SGD.
Tax / repatriation / payoutPrincipal and interest are fully repatriable; interest is tax-exempt in India under current FCNR treatment; keeping the deposit in foreign currency removes INR conversion risk on the deposit principal.
Premature withdrawal / liquidityNo interest is paid if withdrawn before completing one year. For ordinary current FCNR deposits, premature interest is recalculated using the booked-date rate applicable to the actual period; HDFC currently states no penalty on ordinary premature FCNR closure.
NRI / PIO / OCI eligibilityEligible NRI/PIO customers under HDFC Bank FCNR and KYC rules.
Deposit-state / funding ruleFCNR is a foreign-currency term-deposit state, not an INR NRE/NRO rate variant. Compare the chosen currency’s own rate curve and tenure.
Fit & cautions

Who this record appears designed for—and what can break the fit.

Best-fit wording summarizes the published proposition. It is not individualized financial advice or an approval prediction.

Potential fit

NRIs who want a bank term deposit without converting the principal into INR and whose home/earning currency matches one of HDFC’s supported FCNR currencies.

Verify before relying
  • Never compare an FCNR USD/GBP rate directly with an INR FD rate as if the currencies were identical.
  • HDFC’s special 3–5-year lock-in applied to deposits booked from 10 June to 31 August 2026; that booking window is now past.
  • Currency availability and auto-renewal treatment can vary by currency/tenure.
Maintained comparisons

Compare this product only where the pair is deliberately maintained.

Both sides keep independent review dates, exact conditions and first-party evidence. No winner score is generated.

First-party source ledger

Complete evidence set for this maintained profile.

Each source remains independent. A product page, tariff, KFS/MITC, rate schedule or programme document is not silently treated as interchangeable evidence.

Current-use rule

When the bank changes a term after the recorded review, the current agreement, tariff, KFS/MITC or effective rate table controls.

Research boundary

This page organizes dated public evidence; it does not guarantee eligibility, availability, approval, service quality or future pricing.