Lending & Credit
Chinese banks up lending to SMEs
Will also improve financial environment for these firms.
Philippine central bank won't impose new lending restrictions
Real demand is seen behind growing demand for real-estate lending.
Taiwan’s banks to receive huge boost from cross-strait pact
Guess what the 4 main advantages are?
No scrapping of China’s bank deposit rate ceiling before 2015
Emplacing a deposit insurance system takes priority.
Chinese banks boost green financing for green projects
Supports drive to promote ecological progress and curb pollution.
Over producing industries not being starved of loans
Chinese government denies ordering halt in lending.
Property loans by Chinese banks surge 130% in H1
Stands at US$212 billion from US$92 billion year-on-year.
Growing household debt in Singapore worries banks
Many households overborrowing in the property market.
Bank funding slows in South Korea
Low interest margins putting a brake on growth.
Only a small portion of China banks' new loans priced below PBOC's benchmark rates
Most banks expected to retain their pricing power.
Singapore fines 22 financial firms for money laundering
Restricts operations at seven others.
China abolishes banks’ floor lending rates
Critics say move not a breakthrough in rate liberalization.
Renminbi-denominated deposits in Taiwan fall in June
First monthly drop since OBU scheme began July 2011.
India hikes interest rates again
Part of frantic effort to stop rupee’s plunge.
Chinese banks boost loans to SMEs
Lending hits US$2.58 trillion in May.
China to tame shadow banking using more policy tools
A liquidity squeeze is only one of these tools.