Branch Banking
The key to driving cost efficiencies in Asian banks
The key to driving cost efficiencies in Asian banks
With the outlook of slow growth in the coming years, banks across Asia need to aim for significant structural changes to their cost base. This can be...
HSBC opens branch in Wuxi, its 25th on Chinese mainland
HSBC Bank can now provide financial services and solutions to domestic-funded and foreign-funded businesses in Wuxi.
HSBC Singapore aims ambitious: US$1 billion in profits
HSBC Singapore is 60% on the way to achieving its profit target of US$1 billion by 2016.
Maybank opens 19th Sabah branch
Maybank opened its 19th branch in Sabah to allow for greater banking accessibility to the community.
Standard Chartered opens Saadiq branch in Sabah
Standard Chartered Bank has opened its first Saadiq branch in Sabah to strengthen its presence in the state.
Foreign banks to prop-up Indian SMEs
Foreign banks that today supply only 5% of India’s total lending will soon be required to provide some 40% of loans needed by small businesses and...
BSN makes it big with 'Banking Beyond Branches' scheme
Bank Simpanan Nasionalrecorded 35,917 transactions valued at RM2,974,927 since the start of its aggressive drive to promote Banking Beyond Branches.
Bank Muamalat starts repositioning with new Temerloh branch
Bank Muamalat started its repositioining program of upgrading and reocating branches with its 57th branch in Temerloh.
Untapped Cambodia welcomes Japanese banking giant
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Japan’s second largest bank in asset size, has just opened a representative office in Phnom Penh.
Indonesian bank to open Saudi branch
Bank Negara Indonesia will open a branch in Saudi Arabia this year.
HSBC to increase Mainland branches by over sevenfold
Mainland Chinese will soon be seeing much more of HSBC.
Bank of Taiwan to open Shanghai branch
It’s another advance for cross-strait banking.
HSBC opens 58th Malaysian branch--the first in Sabah-Sarawak
HSBC opened its first branch in the Sabah-Sarawak area at Inanam, expanding the total Malaysian branch network to 58 location.
DBS opens experimental branch
DBS Bank opened a POSB bank branch as an experiment of sorts in bringing down the cost of banking and shorten service times.
India continues disincentives to branch banking
A leading Singapore bank raises the issue that some Indian taxes restrict the growth of branch banking in India.
VietinBank penetrates Lao market
VietinBank offically opened a branch in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
Banco Filipino does a phoenix--for the second time
A leading Philippine savings bank shuttered twice by the government in a span of 25 years is to re-open for the second time this March.
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