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Kotak Mahindra Bank FCNR(B) Deposit

Kotak's FCNR(B) deposit holds NRI funds in five foreign currencies, with a current 1 September 2026 currency-by-tenure rate table and full repatriability.

First-party evidencePublished researchReviewed September 10, 2026Active
Current rate evidenceRates effective 1 September 2026 are currency-specific: at 1 year to under 2 years the reviewed table shows 4.00% USD, 4.00% GBP, 2.55% EUR, 4.35% AUD and 1.25% SGD for the displayed lower-value USD band.
Currency / amount / tenureFCNR term deposits are offered in USD, EUR, GBP, AUD and SGD for 1 to 5 years, subject to currency-specific quoting/availability.
Premature withdrawal / liquidityMinimum holding to earn interest is one year. Premature closure is allowed after the minimum period but pays the lower applicable/contracted rate less the currency-specific penalty shown by Kotak.
Deposit-state / funding ruleFCNR can be funded through eligible repatriable/NRE channels; its rate must remain attached to currency, amount band 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 effective 1 September 2026 are currency-specific: at 1 year to under 2 years the reviewed table shows 4.00% USD, 4.00% GBP, 2.55% EUR, 4.35% AUD and 1.25% SGD for the displayed lower-value USD band.
02 · Currency / amount / tenureFCNR term deposits are offered in USD, EUR, GBP, AUD and SGD for 1 to 5 years, subject to currency-specific quoting/availability.
03 · Premature withdrawal / liquidityMinimum holding to earn interest is one year. Premature closure is allowed after the minimum period but pays the lower applicable/contracted rate less the currency-specific penalty shown by Kotak.
04 · Deposit-state / funding ruleFCNR can be funded through eligible repatriable/NRE channels; its rate must remain attached to currency, amount band 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.

TenureUSDGBPEURAUDSGD
1 year to <2 years4.00%4.00%2.55%4.35%1.25%
2 years to <3 years3.70%3.75%1.90%4.15%1.10%
3 years to <4 years3.40%3.50%1.90%3.80%
4 years to <5 years3.20%
5 years only3.00%

Rate basis: Kotak FCNR(B) currency schedule effective 1 September 2026; USD values stored from the <0.5 million band and foreign-currency rates kept outside INR 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) effective 1 Sep 2026; 1y–<2y lower-value table: USD 4.00%, GBP 4.00%, EUR 2.55%, AUD 4.35%, SGD 1.25%.

Kotak FCNR(B) currency schedule effective 1 September 2026; USD values stored from the <0.5 million band and foreign-currency rates kept outside INR 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 effective 1 September 2026 are currency-specific: at 1 year to under 2 years the reviewed table shows 4.00% USD, 4.00% GBP, 2.55% EUR, 4.35% AUD and 1.25% SGD for the displayed lower-value USD band.
Currency / amount / tenureFCNR term deposits are offered in USD, EUR, GBP, AUD and SGD for 1 to 5 years, subject to currency-specific quoting/availability.
Tax / repatriation / payoutPrincipal and interest are fully and freely repatriable; interest is tax-exempt in India under current FCNR treatment; interest is compounded at 180-day intervals.
Premature withdrawal / liquidityMinimum holding to earn interest is one year. Premature closure is allowed after the minimum period but pays the lower applicable/contracted rate less the currency-specific penalty shown by Kotak.
NRI / PIO / OCI eligibilityEligible NRI/PIO customers under Kotak FCNR/KYC rules.
Deposit-state / funding ruleFCNR can be funded through eligible repatriable/NRE channels; its rate must remain attached to currency, amount band 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

Kotak NRI customers who want to retain foreign currency and can choose among USD, GBP, EUR, AUD and SGD term-deposit tenures.

Verify before relying
  • The USD table has separate amount bands even where the displayed rates currently match; keep the amount basis attached.
  • Some longer-tenure non-USD currencies show “No Quote” and should not be inferred.
  • Do not rank the FCNR percentage against INR deposits without accounting for currency.
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.