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Singapore bank ROEs to hit over 11% in 2020
Singapore bank ROEs to hit over 11% in 2020
Thanks to the shift towards fees and commission in the non-interest income mix.
Indian banks swing back into the black in Q4
Earnings hit $21.56m with private banks leading the quarterly gains.
DBS cost-to-income ratio to ease to 43% in 2019
It rose 1.9 ppts in 2018 due to weak trading income and ANZ integration.
DBS full-year profit surged 28% to $4.15b
Fee income hit S$2.78b as led by card and wealth management.
India slaps 4 public sector lenders with $705,000 fine
Corporation Bank’s penalty hit $282,000.
Standard Chartered nabs former HSBC global banking head Chow Wan Thonh
She will succeed Patrick Lee who was promoted to CEO in July 2018.
DBS appoints former Citibank Singapore CEO as group head of strategy and planning
Han Kwee Juan is a veteran banker with a formidable 27-year career experience.
Weekly Global News Wrap Up: European banks struggle to lure talent against high-paying US players; EU banks face tougher hurdles in Saudi
And a Greek bank is gearing for $4b in bad loan sales.
Vietnamese banks call for higher foreign ownership ratio ceiling
Lenders are eager to meet capital requirements.
Thailand's GSB expands deposit network
GSB aims to have a total of 226,000 top-up points.
India eyes holding company structure for banks in bid to speed up consolidation: report
It has been proposed that a FHC will have the main bank as subsidiary.
Big Philippine banks' profits rose 9.3% to $3.07b in 2018
Interest earnings buoyed yearly profits despite higher borrowing costs.
Hong Kong mortgage loans down 20.7% to $23.5b in December
Weakening property demand weighed on loan growth.
South Korea's property curbs cool January household loans
The growth was its lowest since November 2017.
Bank Rakyat Indonesia profit up $2.32b in 2018
Non-interest income surged 25%.
Hong Kong banker bonuses drop by a fifth as stock markets fall
Some local brokers had to make do with a lai see.
Malaysian bank loan growth drops further to 5.6% in December
Working capital, construction, home and auto loans weakened.