Lending & Credit

Chinese banks boost green financing for green projects

Supports drive to promote ecological progress and curb pollution.

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.

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.

China Exim Bank loans US$64.8 billion in H1

Number of export projects funded rises 49% year-on-year.

Mizuho will boost overseas lending by 50%

Aims at Latin America and emerging Asia.