In Focus

Fitch expects lower but still healthy loan growth in 2012 - but how healthy is it?

The country seeks to triple its financial sector by the end of this decade.

But to which company will HSBC be selling it to?

So loan growths are expected to moderate significantly in 2H12, but which bank remains a relative outperformer in uncertain times?

Four Australian banks will face a class suit for charging exorbitant fees.

Their employees allegedly asked bankers to change rates they submit for setting Tibor to gain an advantage.

Many KEB workers hit Hana chairman for trying to pacify angry sentiment over the FSC’s alleged endorsement of the Hana-Lone Star deal.

Blame it on supply and demand as more senior bankers now want to have Asia experience on their CV.

The debt crisis caused Japan’s largest brokerage to reduce its assets in Italy.

RHB may issue new shares equivalent to as much as 10 percent of its existing equity to pay for the unit, according to Bloomberg.

Asia's financial institutions can cope with possible global financial meltdown caused by Europe's debt crisis due to its good capitalization, according to the governor of Malaysian central bank.

The central bank warns of a sudden spike in global risk aversion that can hurt the Singapore banking system.

And worse, loans to property developers are doomed to sour as sales slow.

Eight lenders will contribute to the five-year bullet facility, according to Bloomberg.

But Temasek’s spokesperson neither confirms nor denies the ‘market speculation'.

The Japanese bank's gain from conversion of shares in Morgan Stanley drove the profit target increase.