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A healthy system has between three to five public and private sector banks.

Lenders have one more year of relief amidst previous approvals they drew down.

Rajasthan village has no banking infrastructure to serve its 5,500 residents.

Regulators are eyeing the same set of capital guidelines used for conventional assets.

This involves the participation of the central bank and seven other lenders.

And an Islamic banking entity with about $92b in assets may be in the works. From Bloomberg: The biggest banks’ push into mobile is running out of low-hanging fruit. Bank of America Corp. added active mobile customers at a slower pace for at least the fourth quarter in a row in the three months through June. JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s active mobile customers increased 2.4 percent in second quarter. A year earlier, the jump was 4.1 percent.

Consumer gross impaired loan ratio has plunged to a historical low of 1%.

Household loans dominated monthly lending.

The app’s wide payment capabilities poses a risk to conventional banks.

Every 10bps rise in SIBOR could offset a 1ppt slowdown in loan growth.

Trailing only behind Italy, the country has a bad loan ratio of 11.6%.

Foreign investors are allowed to acquire up to 35% stake in local firms.

Arab Bank has received the green light to set up a Shanghai unit.

Customer satisfaction was high for mid-sized lenders like Bendigo and ING.

The central bank approved a pilot project creating a real-time remittance corridor.

This translates to only 15.8 million Filipinos out of 103.3 million.