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The Swiss bank used the US$100 million quota granted under its QFII licence by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in China.

With a minimum investment of $336, the fund gives investors opportunities to benefit from Taiwan’s economic growth.

Metrobank’s profit is catching up with that of the industry leader BPI, which amounted to $146.4mn.

More than 90% of the bank's on balance sheet funding comes from retail deposits.

The lender warns of riskier times ahead for Asia amidst global economic uncertainties and volatility.

South Korea's prosecution will speed up the repatriation from Canada of a key lobbyist for Busan Savings Bank to probe his role in a massive influence-peddling scandal.

Maybank is confident of increasing its market share in the electronic dividend payment from 30% to 70% by 2013, with an expected transaction value of about RM10 billion.

Bank of China Bangkok became the first Chinese bank issuing the UnionPay dual-currency debit card in Thailand.

Agricultural Bank of China Limited successfully led the 1-billion-yuan RMB bond underwriting for CITIC Pacific Limited's 5-year maturity with a coupon rate of 2.7%.

Corporation Bank is in the process of according special and exclusive services for senior citizens.

ICBC Macau drew the experience from domestic branches and launched the service of trading precious metal via accounts in order to meet the diversified investment requirement of overseas customers. ICBC Macau immediately became a local focus for being a commercial bank in Macau offering the most complete range of precious metal products, the longest trading hours and highest number of channels for users to buy/sell precious metals. This marked a new breakthrough of ICBC to launch global market services abroad and paved the way for the Bank to roll out across the world. The ICBC Macau's service of trading precious metal via accounts has generated wide response from the market since its launch, said an executive with ICBC. In just a month and a half, number of users has reached 185. A total of 10875.2 ounces, approximately 338 kilograms of gold, silver and platinum has been traded via accounts, generating a turnover of over USD 475,000.

ICBC Beijing signed cooperation agreements with Beijing Federation of Industry & Commerce and Beijing Municipal Private and Individual Economy Association to provide financial support to the non-state-owned SMEs in Beijing.

In an effort to help small business owners in various merchandise marts access bank loans, ICBC has recently launched the "Merchant Friend Loan".

ICBC Leasing is giving tailored financial leasing solutions are provided to assist SMEs in production expansion and improvement.

Siam Commercial Bank's personal loan business grew by 30% for the first half of the yearwith an outstanding loan amount of 18 billion baht.

To enable customers to gain the highest benefit from investment and to give an option for them to invest to their heart’s content, Krung Thai Bank launched 2 short-term deposit products.