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Bank loyalty programmes pile on pleasure and personalisation

Bank loyalty programmes pile on pleasure and personalisation

Banks must develop programmes with full-on pampering.

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Regulatory hurdles Asian banks must watch out for in 2016

Banks will continue to feel the noose tighten in the form of additional crisis response regulation.

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Are Asian banks ready to take on wearable technology?

Only a small percentage of banks currently support wearables.

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Hong Kong banks' mortgages to remain benign: Fitch

Risk factors include stretched affordability and high LTV mortgages.

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Should China brace for a banking crisis in 2016?

There will be heightened volatility, but a crisis is unlikely.

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Thai banks' 2016 NPL outlook "may not be as bad as the market fears": Maybank Kim Eng

Gross NPL was THB335b at the end of 4Q15.

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Singapore banks stuck in a ditch as oil sorrows mount

They will soon be bombarded with rising defaults.

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Indonesian banks to maintain a countercyclical buffer on top of Basel III capital requirements

New year, new regulation.

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Singapore's overall loan growth dragged by 2.3% drop in business loans

System loan growth came in at 1.4% in November 2015.

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Not so fast: Asset quality and profitability qualms darken 2016 outlook for Asia-Pac banks

Different year, same economic woes for banks.

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Singapore banks' aggregate operating income to slow to 5% in 2016

But core net profit can grow 7%.

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All eyes on credit quality as Indonesia’s banks bank on surging economy for growth

Banks are expected to grow an anemic 13%.

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Japanese mega banks' earnings dampened by regional exposure

Profit dropped in the past months.

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Asset quality in Indonesia and Malaysia most likely to deteriorate

But other ASEAN banks are in a better position.

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Are Singapore banks breaking free from decaying asset quality soon?

Banks showed resilience in the face of volatility.

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Singapore's system loans slip 0.8% in September as DBU and ACU disappoint

Overall corporate loans declined 1.1%.

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Deposit cap removal a bellwether for full interest-rate liberalisation in China

Chinese banks will remain highly influenced by policy directives.

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