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Australia's cooling housing market to bite banks' profits
Australia's cooling housing market to bite banks' profits
Residential mortgages account for more than 60% of banks' overall loan portfolio.
China banks' regulator fines 19 banks over loan fraud case
ICBC and PSBC are amongst the fined banks.
Basel III contractual PONV securities will still dominate APAC banks
How loss absorption will occur in practice remains to be seen.
Financial experts forecast the boom of Indian banks
Thanks to economic management by the government.
Thai banks to improve loan growth to 5.9% in 2018
This is premised on the country's continued economic recovery.
China's increasing use of medium-term facilities is a win for banks
It benefits banks' funding structure and lifts profits.
DBS to grow earnings by 24.9% in FY18
The bank is running on a healthy broad-based growth momentum into 2018.
Asian banks' earnings estimates are soaring
Better-quality asset growth and NIM expansion are amongst the factors.
See how MFRS9 could affect Malaysian banks' credit costs
Guidance on credit cost run rates from banks post-MFRS9 remains sketchy.
How will Indian banks benefit from RBI's injected capital?
The government will infuse $14b into 21 public sector banks by March.
Thai banks' earnings sink 19% YoY to $1.26b
They expect to recover earnings and ROE in 2018.
Weekly Global News Wrap Up: European banks' battles continue; JPMorgan's physical branches vital to expansion
And BoA, Citigroup review policies allowing credit cards to buy bitcoin.
ASEAN banks brace themselves from giant Chinese tech companies
These tech players venture into fintech using data from ecommerce.
58% of APAC banks aspire to reach digital maturity by 2020
They focus on digital innovations to improve risk management.
Bank J. Safra Sarasin Singapore appoints Vinay Gandhi as CEO
The Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) division in Asia will report to him.
Siam Commercial Bank revamps digital banking efforts
It aims to expand its mobile banking user base to 10m by 2020.
Hong Kong banks may need to lift deposit and interbank lending rates
No thanks to higher funding required for retail deposits.