Withdrawal of Rs 2,000 to have favourable impact on deposits, says SBI

An SBI study on Tuesday said the withdrawal of Rs 2000 currency note is likely to be a non-event but it will have a favourable bearing on liquidity, bank deposits and interest rates.

The 131-day window to exchange junked 2000 rupee currency notes opened on Tuesday with a mixed bag of small queues and confusion at some banks over the requirement of officially valid identity cards like PAN or Aadhaar, and official forms.

Unlike November 2016, when old 500 and 1000 rupee notes - constituting some 86 per cent of the currency in circulation - were banned overnight, resulting in sarpantine ques outside bank branches across the country, this time no crowding is being witnessed.

The SBI's research report 'Ecowrap' expects that almost the entire amount of Rs 3.6 lakh crore in the form of Rs 2000 will come back to the banking system (the report assumes 10-15 per cent of the total Rs 2000 notes are in currency chests).

"Even though the impact of Rs 2000 rupee note withdrawal is a non-event, .