Lending & Credit
Personal loans, NBFCs anchor surge in Indian outstanding bank credit
Personal loans, NBFCs anchor surge in Indian outstanding bank credit
Both segments comprised 73% of incremental credit in April.
China shuns ‘clean coal' in new green financing guidelines
Billions of yuan have been used in green financing of coal-related projects.
Indian credit demand surges but recovery still far ahead
Gross non-performing loans drove the increase in credit.
Indonesian banks face aggravated headwinds as pandemic grows
Restructured loans have grown considerably and will increase further.
ADB inks $300m loan to boost Indonesia's geothermal capacity
It will support the construction and commissioning of two geothermal plants in Java.
Singapore's circuit breaker spells downturn in loan growth
Consumer loans were mostly affected, shrinking 0.9% MoM, OCBC said.
Chart of the Week: Malaysia's consumer loan growth to decelerate in 2020
There’s just little banks can do to encourage people to take out loans.
DBS approves loans worth $1.1b for micro, small businesses
Interest rates of Enterprise Singapore financing schemes averaged 2-3%.
APAC banks face shocking $1.8t credit hit
Axis Bank in India has seen a quarter of its loan book stop repayments.
Weekly Global News Wrap: JPMorgan gives out $30b in loans for US SMEs; Citi pilots ESG unit
And Westpac admits to money laundering breaches.
Japan's SMBC, Clifford Capital grant $140m loan for 300MW oil-fired plant
It’s the first IPP in Bangladesh financed by international commercial financiers.
Japanese major banks' lending surge 3.4% in April
Borrowings by COVID-hit firms spurred the jump.
Indian banks want government to fund ‘bad bank'
They are pitching for an asset reconstruction company to buy NPLs.
China's central bank to run medium-term loan operations
A batch of $28.b in loans will expire on 14 May.
Regulations to quell slight uptick in Hong Kong banks' credit losses
Credit losses will notably decline in 2021.
Australian banks defer $130b in loans
100,000 loans were deferred in the past week.
Rising overdue loans imperil Vietnamese banks' capital
Delinquencies are likely to further rise as economic outlook remains gloomy.
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