Lending & Credit
India's banks face disaster from restructured loans
Restructured loans are failing to secure payments for massive debts and will instead balloon to a massive US$39 billion in the fiscal year ending...
India's banks face disaster from restructured loans
Restructured loans are failing to secure payments for massive debts and will instead balloon to a massive US$39 billion in the fiscal year ending...
Philippine bank lending slows in August
Outstanding loans of Philippine commercial banks slowed to 14 percent in August from 16 percent in July.
State Bank of India sees loan growth revival
The State Bank of India is seeing early signs of a revival in loan growth.
Here are competitive financing schemes available to SMEs in Asia
Find out what CIMB and OCBC have in store for growing SMEs in the region.
BTMU, Mizuho lead bank bailout of Sharp
Two of Japan's largest banks are heading the US$2.7 billion rescue of the bankrupt electronics giant.
Singapore tightens rules for housing loans
Singapore's central bank has tightened rules on residential property lending due to a possible bubble in the real estate market.
This is how Asian banks can control the risk of higher NPLs
It's all about risk management and financial intelligence, says RCBC, OCBC, and CIMB.
Growth still possible for Indian banks
India’s embattled banking sector could report a growth of 14.5% in Q2 earnings despite mounting bad debts and debt rollovers.
Weak Vietnamese banks force Moody’s rate cut
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Vietnam's credit rating on growing concerns over its weakening banks and its rapidly cooling economy.
Indonesia's Bank Mandiri to restructure $3.3B of bad loans
Bank Mandiri can now restructure unncollected loans of Rp 32 trillion or $3.3 billion following a court ruling that changes the status of the debts.
New Chinese loans in another sharp drop
Chinese banks could have lent only US$95 billion in new loans during September.
How to increase infrastructure financing in India
Given the massive funding requirement of infra sector (>$500b in the next decade by some estimates), the domestic banking sector is feeling the...
Philippine NPL ratio down in July
The average NPL ratio of the 38 Philippine universal/commercial banks went down to 2.18% in July from 2.45% a year earlier.
Philippine banks foreign currency loans up 23% to $7.77B
Loans given by Philippine banks’ foreign currency deposit units increased 23 percent year-on-year to $7.768 billion as of end-June.
Nomura to make Asia the center of operations
Nomura Holdings, Inc is reorganizing its global finance unit in Asia outside of Japan as part of a continuing overhaul of Japan’s biggest brokerage.
Taiwan's bank home loans show big decline
New housing loans from five leading banks In Taiwan reached their lowest levels since February.
Bank Negara Indonesia books $1.37M lending profits in NY
The New York branch of state-owned Bank Negara Indonesia booked net profits of US$1.37 million from credit issued in the first eight months of this...