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CIMB Niaga, BCA earnings boosted by surge in loans, fee revenue
CIMB Niaga, BCA earnings boosted by surge in loans, fee revenue
Bank Central Asia and Bank CIMB Niaga, posted strong earnings in the first nine months of the year due to strong loan growth, according to a Jakarta...
Bank Mandiri sees 21% surge in lending in 2012
The bank believes it would be able to reach its target if Indonesia’s economic growth expands more than 6% next year.
Bank Rakyat Indonesia 2012 loans to grow 20%
The lender’s profit soared 58% to $771.2mn) in the first half.
BIDV to further cut dong lending rate
Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam lowered the lending interest rates for Vietnam dong further by 1-2 percentage points from the current...
Fitch gives Mega ICBC an A-
The bank’s earnings are expected to remain robust until 2012, underpinned by a gradual widening of net interest margins.
Bad mortgages reach a whopping $69b since 2007
Blame it on JP Morgan’s recent disclosure of its $1.3b new expenses related to faulty mortgages and foreclosures.
Citigroup to pay $285m penalty for misleading investors
This is the third-biggest fine for such conduct and SEC’s latest action against banks.
Liquidity shortage hamper small Vietnamese banks
Local small Vietnamese lenders were forced to borrow in interbank market with sky-high interest rates after seeing massive deposits outflows.
Chinese government vigilant for ‘shadow bankers’
More than 80 businessmen mysteriously disappeared or committed suicide to avoid repaying debts to informal lenders.
Philippine banks to put PEACe bond tax in escrow
Eight local lenders asked the court to stop the government from imposing a 20% tax on interest income from Php35b worth of bonds.
Bank Mandiri sees 27% loan growth by yearend
The lender sees growth to beat the initial 22% estimate.
Japan bank loans down by 0.3% in September
Japanese banks lent 0.3 percent less in September compared from a year earlier, reports Reuters.
Banks to bail out Wenzhou firms
Eleven work groups have been sent to oversee a bank bailout of private firms suffering from a liquidity crunch in a coordinated move to tackle the...
Sri Lankan bank gets $30M loan from German group
The German development finance institution DEG has provided a loan of US$ 30 million repayable over eight years to DFCC Bank, Sri Lanka’s pioneer...
HD Bank caught in breach of deposit ceiling
An HD Bank branch located at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District was caught severely violating state regulation on deposit interest rate ceiling...
Twelve Viet banks pledge not to violate deposit interest rate cap
Twelve Vietnamese commercial banks which account for 85 percent market share have reached an agreement not to exceed the deposit interest rate...
VietinBank chair denies rumored extent of bank's bad debts
Pham Huy Hung, chair of VietinBank-CTG, confirmed that his bank has the lowest bad debt ratio in Vietnam's banking system.
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