Retail Banking

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.

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.

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.

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.