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Shadow banking risks focused on China's regional lenders
Rust belt banks use shadow banking to conceal their bad loan status.
Shadow banking risks focused on China's regional lenders
Rust belt banks use shadow banking to conceal their bad loan status.
Consolidating public sector banks in India still won't improve weak capitalisation
But the mergers could provide scale efficiencies and improve the quality of corporate governance.
Singapore banks' non-interest income to increase by up to 15%
Thanks to wealth management fees and net trading income.
Why Thai banks are well placed to absorb loan losses
They have enough reserves even if 25% of thier restructured loans become NPLs.
Vietnamese banks' asset quality expected to improve with new collateral repossession rules
Banks can now speedily repossess collateral for a nonperforming loan.
How will Indonesian banks' NPLs be impacted by the end of OJK's lenient restructuring?
NPLs will remain close to 3% by the end of 2017.
China's largest banks raise billions to fund Belt and Road investments
China Construction Bank eyes raising at least $15b.
Weekly Global News Wrap Up: US banks' profits up 10.7% to $48.3b; How big tech is disrupting banks
And find out why Frankfurt and Dublin seem to be winning the battle for Brexit jobs.
Chart of the Week: Singapore banks' ROEs to trend higher into FY18-19E
Maybank Kim Eng outlines three reasons behind this forecast.
Indian banks remain 'moderately capitalised'
Overall Capital Adequacy Ratio stood at 13.74% as of March 2017.
Why the property sector remains a key risk for Hong Kong banks
The prevalence of high-LTV second mortgages increases default risks for homebuyers.
Malaysian banks' total system deposits growth slows to 3.5%
Government deposits contracted for the 12th consecutive month.
More unfavourable regulations to impact Thai banks
Policies may even target leasing companies as well.
Outstanding balance of bank-issued wealth management products in China up 9% to US$4.3t
It represents almost a fifth of bank deposits.
Australian banks' compliance issues get exposed
Thanks to the recent money laundering crackdown.
What will drive Singapore banks' sharp loan growth recovery?
The 7.6% growth in July was a significant improvement from the low of -2.7% in May 2016.
This promising segment could prove lucrative for Australian banks
That is if banks can tailor a unique package of services for their needs.