Retail Banking

Regulatory hurdles Asian banks must watch out for in 2016

Banks will continue to feel the noose tighten in the form of additional crisis response regulation.

Regulatory hurdles Asian banks must watch out for in 2016

Banks will continue to feel the noose tighten in the form of additional crisis response regulation.

OCBC’s net profit inches up 2% to $3.91b in FY15

Thanks to associates’ increased contributions.

CEO Noriaki Goto on the ‘new Krungsri’ following the bank’s integration with MUFG

Partnering Krungsri’s local expertise with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s global network pays off.

Standard Chartered names James Dolphin CIO for retail banking

The appointment will be effective in March 2016.

How will the proposed liquidity tightening affect Vietnamese banks?

The share of short-term funding that banks can use for loans will be decreased.

UOB’s FY15 net profits dip 1.2% to $3.21b

Due to a higher tax provisions write-back in FY14.

HSBC to invest further in the Pearl River Delta

But it will remain headquartered in the UK.

Malaysian banks' loans grew 7.9% in 2015

Thanks to working capital loans from 2Q15 to 3Q15.

Hong Kong banks' mortgages to remain benign: Fitch

Risk factors include stretched affordability and high LTV mortgages.

KBANK president Predee Daochai speaks of digitisation and overseas partnerships

He is leading partnerships between KasikornBank and ASEAN countries plus China, Japan, and Korea.

Should China brace for a banking crisis in 2016?

There will be heightened volatility, but a crisis is unlikely.

Singapore banks still heavily tethered

Singapore banks spent 2015 bound by slow growth chains and they will not likely break free in 2016.