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Low profitability and insufficient capital haunt Chinese banks

Low profitability and insufficient capital haunt Chinese banks

Even their improved asset quality cannot mask these concerns.

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How Hong Kong banks can fight financial crime in 2018

Banks will continue to develop the use of technology and data analytics for AML.

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What the new Basel IV rules could mean for banks

The use of banks’ own internal models to calculate their RWA will be limited under the new rules.

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Why private sector leverage levels are high in many APAC banking systems

Leverage levels are particularly high in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Vietnam.

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Rise of the chatbots: Here's how Singapore's big banks are adopting fintech

54% of fintechs have focused on banks.

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The Big Short: Asia Pacific banks still prefer bailouts to bail-ins

Hong Kong has made the most significant advance with its bank resolution regime.

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Indian banks' IT spending to hit $9.1b in 2017

Devices spending in the sector will grow the fastest at 20%.

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Why Chinese shadow banking activity stopped growing in 1H17

Nominal GDP also grew faster than shadow banking assets.

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Australian banks to battle headwinds from the cooling housing market

Moderating housing loan growth could drag banks' profitability.

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Chinese banks' 1H17 asset growth significantly slower than in the past decade

Assets grew by only 4.4%.

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Closing in on open banking

How could open banking revolutionise how banks generate value?

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How blockchain is unchained in Singapore

Check out the latest developments around blockchain in Singapore.

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Why Thai banks are expected to report soft 3Q17 earnings

Loan growth could weaken and NPLs could rise.

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Why state support is still key to keeping China banks' stability

The PBOC's balance-sheet claims on depository institutions hit US$1.4t as of July.

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Which banks are launching virtual branches in Asia?

JP Morgan and Citi are amongst the banks deploying virtual branches.

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How can banks keep pace in the age of bot-banking?

Most banks can begin with improving their knowledge of data analytics.

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Two themes that were evident in most Chinese banks' Q2 results

The banks registered NIM expansion of 4-8bp.

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