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Weak corporate loan growth plague India's private banks
Weak corporate loan growth plague India's private banks
Will the expansion to rural areas help?.
Hong Kong's loans and deposits rise further in September
Following slow growth in August.
National Australia Bank mulls over more options for UK exit
Exiting would prove better for the bank.
Why bad debt at Vietnamese banks are likely to spiral out of proportion
It's partly to do with slow progress.
Security Bank Corp's 9M14 net income jumps 54% YoY to PHP6.4b
Increase was across the board as well.
DBS China caps off first RMB/SGD direct trade on launch day
Contributing to the acceleration of RMB internationalisation.
Indian banks' large deposit base to ward off risks from economic instability
Thanks to buoyat capital market, too.
Ambitious Malaysian banks get more aggressive in R&D investments
Hunger becoming leaders fuel their drive.
Guess what's going to give India's public-sector banks a big-time trouble
Their pre-provision margins are involved.
Should investors worry about pension provisioning in India's PSU banks?
This follows PNB's falling G-Sec yields.
StanChart braces itself for a weaker 4Q14 result
Small downgrades to be expected.
Philippines' BPI pops the champagne on 28% loan growth
However, weak trading has been observed.
Standard Chartered Q3 operating profit dropped 16% YoY
Weaker outlook is also expected in 2H.
Singapore banks armed to deal with softening property market
Thanks partly to early and preemptive regulation.
HSBC gets nod for RMB-SGD direct onshore trading in China interbank forex market
This reflects the acceleration of RMB internationalization.
CCB's reluctance to compete for deposits in 3Q14 drives LDR to 72%
It's offset migration effect towards time deposits.
India-based HDFC Bank's auto-loan growth gains strong momentum
The bank's 2QFY15 performance is mostly all hits.
Commentary
APAC has mastered domestic payments. The next challenge is connecting them.
Why fragmented communications are becoming a hidden governance risk for Asia Pacific banks
From automation to agency: Asia’s wealth leaders can reinvent, not just streamline
Singapore aced its FATF evaluation — now comes the hard part
Are Asia’s digital banks prepared for the stablecoin era?
Why APAC is building home-currency stablecoins
Why Southeast Asian wealth managers must design the business before buying the technology
Why trust in Asian banking increasingly gets built off the record
Hong Kong cleared stablecoins for take-off. Getting them to work across Asia is the hard part