Lending & Credit
China's shadow banking sector to shrink to half of GDP in 2019
Lenders have been shifting to on-balance sheet activities.
China's shadow banking sector to shrink to half of GDP in 2019
Lenders have been shifting to on-balance sheet activities.
Bad loans threaten Philippine banks amidst steep interest rates
Soured assets held by Philippine banks hit $430m in November 2018.
Indian banks make headway in denting bad debt in Q3
The growth of gross NPAs fell to 8.4% from 30.4% the previous year.
Struggling Chinese firms to lift Hong Kong banks' classified loan ratio to 0.75% by 2019
The number of defaults quadrupled to hit a record $17.68b in 2018.
Thailand braces for fresh wave of bad loans as property market cools
Retail mortgage NPLs account for 16.6% of systemic bad loans and 25.9% of total loans.
Chart of the Week: Vietnamese banks are downplaying their problem loans
Vietinbank, for instance, reports an NPL ratio of 1.4% but the true figure is at least 3%.
Krung Thai Bank's bad loan ratio could fall to 4% in 2019
The bank is in the process of resolving one big corporate NPL.
Vietnam hammers hard on bad loans as banks clear $6.42b in soured assets in 2018
This brings the bad loan ratio to 1.89% in 2018 from 1.99% in 2017.
Chinese banks' property loan growth slows to 20% in 2018
About $3.82t went to individual purchasers.
Singapore mortgages slow sharply as sentiment sours
Home loan growth slowed to 1.9% in January-November 2018 from 4.2% in 2017.
Will India's banks sink under weight of the country's worst water crisis?
Roughly 40% of banks' gross credit exposure are in sectors with significant water risks.
Chart of the Week: Singapore mortgage loans to grow 3% in 2019
The cooling measures will temper borrowing activities.
Are Chinese banks put to risk as government calls to rev up POE lending?
The bad loan ratio of select sectors hit 4.7% compared to the 1.7% industry average.
Philippine banks can weather their largest corporate default
The combined loan exposure of Korean shipbuilder Hanjin to its five creditors is at $412m.
Vietnamese banks' 2018 pre-tax profit surges 40% as bad debt crackdown pays off
Lenders were able to resolve $6.5b in soured loans.
Are Singapore banks bracing for another O&G nightmare amidst Coastal Oil troubles?
The indebted crude oil supplier owes the three Singapore banks a combined US$172.1m.
India's weakened banking sector awaits stronger credit growth as it tucks bad loans away
From 4.7% in end-2016, loans booked double-digit growth of 14.9% in November.
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