Lending & Credit

Philippine banks to put PEACe bond tax in escrow

Eight local lenders asked the court to stop the government from imposing a 20% tax on interest income from Php35b worth of bonds.

Philippine banks to put PEACe bond tax in escrow

Eight local lenders asked the court to stop the government from imposing a 20% tax on interest income from Php35b worth of bonds.

Bank Mandiri sees 27% loan growth by yearend

The lender sees growth to beat the initial 22% estimate.

Japan bank loans down by 0.3% in September

Japanese banks lent  0.3 percent less in September compared from a year earlier, reports Reuters.

Banks to bail out Wenzhou firms

Eleven work groups have been sent to oversee a bank bailout of private firms suffering from a liquidity crunch in a coordinated move to tackle the...

Sri Lankan bank gets $30M loan from German group

The German development finance institution DEG has provided a loan of US$ 30 million repayable over eight years to DFCC Bank, Sri Lanka’s pioneer...

HD Bank caught in breach of deposit ceiling

An HD Bank branch located at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District was caught severely violating state regulation on deposit interest rate ceiling...

Twelve Viet banks pledge not to violate deposit interest rate cap

Twelve Vietnamese commercial banks which account for 85 percent market share have reached an agreement not to exceed the deposit interest rate...

VietinBank chair denies rumored extent of bank's bad debts

Pham Huy Hung, chair of VietinBank-CTG, confirmed that his bank has the lowest bad debt ratio in Vietnam's banking system.

VIB sets aside VND2T for soft loans

Vietnam International Commercial Joint Stock Bank will set aside two trillion dong to lend at the preferential interest rate of from 17.5 percent per...

TrustBank extends soft loans to exporters

TrustBank is offering incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises to serve purchase and processing of products for exports, agriculture...

SCB offers new saving interest rate benchmark

Saigon Commercial Joint Stock Bank is offering new interest rate benchmark in both dong and US dollar whereby the non-term deposit interest rate in...

Kasikorn Bank to spur small tourism business

The lender collaborated with tourism institutions in Thailand to offer a $484,496 soft loan to operators.

Siam Commercial Bank retains 18% loan growth target in 2011

The lender still optimistic of the goal despite expected slowing down of lending growth in the fourth quarter.

Westpac earns $1.5bn in residential mortgage securities

Australia’s top 4 banks, which include Westpac, hold $1tn loans portfolio in mortgages.

Japan’s megabanks receives $43bn credit offer for M&A abroad

The offer is part of a government program releasing $100bn of forex reserves to JBIC to spur purchases overseas.

RHB and Credit Guarantee Corporation to enhance SME financing

The tie-up’s Enhancer Direct scheme to assist viable SMEs that are unable to secure financing due to insufficient collateral.

Vietnam’s Agribank says bad debt level safe

Agribank said it faces no finacial problems even though it has a bad debt of 6.67 percent of its total loans.