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$5b of Japanese megabank loans flow into Asian coal projects

Majority of the loans are financing coal projects in India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Singapore banks ace corporate customer satisfaction survey

DBS retained the crown in terms of back office centralisation.

Learn how this CEO is rethinking microcredit

Stefano Virgilli talks about Pocket Money’s role in plugging the funding gap for borrowers who failed to get access to the formal financial system.

Singapore ranks as the world's third largest foreign exchange centre

Average daily FX trading volume hit $870.63b in April.

Malaysian bank earnings up 5% in Q2

Investment and trading income drove quarterly profit gains.

Oliver Wyman's Shrikant Patil to join panel at ABF Digital & Open Banking Conference 2019

He will discuss how to drive innovative business models based on open data and open banking.

Fintech investments into China hit $60.1b in 2014-Q1 2019

Payment and remittances companies snapped up $24.7b in funding.

Which Singapore bank has the highest unsecured NPA?

This lender has more than half of its bad assets unsecured.

Chart of the Week: Thai banks' Q2 stressed loans hits 2.95%

NPL improvements were seen in the manufacturing and commerce sectors.

Celent's Eiichiro Yanagawa to grace the ABF Digital & Open Banking Conference 2019

He will make the case for the self-service data analytics model.

Margins of big Philippine banks widen in H1

On the other hand, NIMs of mid-sized players shrank.

Internet banking transactions in Korea hit record high in 2018

The number of transactions broke the 100-million mark for the first time.

Small Chinese banks lead profit growth in H1

City and village banks saw net profit grow 13.7% compared to 4.8% for the Big 4.

Regional credit growth props up bank loans as domestic lending falls flat

Loans to DBU trade-related segments and mortgages slowed.