Singapore bank lending hits fastest monthly growth since Dec 2024; full-year lending at multi-year high
For the whole of 2025, bank lending up 5.8% at S$10.26 trillion, MAS data indicates Singapore’s bank lending in December 2025 charted the…
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For the whole of 2025, bank lending up 5.8% at S$10.26 trillion, MAS data indicates Singapore’s bank lending in December 2025 charted the…
Singapore’s bank lending in December 2025 charted the highest monthly increase since December 2024, driven primarily by an increase in…
This covers retail and corporate customers of OCBC Securities and clients of Bank of Singapore OCBC has rolled out a securities lending…
China left benchmark loan prime rates unchanged on Tuesday for the eighth consecutive month in January, matching market expectations.…
The moves signal targeted adjustments to bolster an economy hit by weak demand and imbalances China’s central bank will lower interest…
China’s central bank on Monday unveiled a one-off credit repair scheme to allow overdue personal debts of up to 10,000 yuan (S$1,835)…
China left benchmark lending rates unchanged for the seventh consecutive month in December on Monday, matching market expectations. The…
British lenders approved more mortgages than expected in October, despite concerns about finance minister Rachel Reeves’ budget, and…
October economic data, including a contraction in exports and a further slowdown in retail sales, point to a tougher fourth quarter,…
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Margins will be pinched as interest-income gains are further limited, compounded by weak lending and bad debt Four of Thailand’s largest…
Bank loans as a proportion of deposits have risen since June, but they still remain near the lowest level since 2009 The cost of overnight…
China kept benchmark lending rates unchanged for the fourth consecutive month in September, in line with market expectations. The one-year…
China is expected to leave benchmark lending rates unchanged for the fourth month in a row on Monday, a Reuters survey showed, after the…
MAJOR US lenders lowered a key interest rate on Wednesday, providing US consumers a reprieve on borrowing costs, after the Federal Reserve…
Top gainers included Country Garden and Shimao Group Holdings, whose shares rose more than 30% Chinese property shares surged in Hong…
Top gainers included Country Garden and Shimao Group Holdings, whose shares rose more than 30% Chinese property shares surged in Hong…
It’s expanding this presence with three new service centres in regional New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania Westpac Banking plans to…
China kept benchmark lending rates in August unchanged for the third consecutive month on Wednesday (Aug 20), in line with market…
AUSTRALIA’S Westpac Banking Corp posted a steady third-quarter profit on Thursday, buoyed by wider margins, on the back of fewer liquid…
Australia’s Westpac Banking on Thursday (Aug 14) said wider margins and lending and deposits gains helped it post slightly higher…
Maria Hazel Regalado, a 48-year-old mother of four in the Philippines, needed a computer last year so she could work from home. Regalado,…
Chinese banks are struggling to comply with new Beijing guidelines to boost consumer credit as they reel from a surge of defaults on…
China kept benchmark lending rates unchanged as expected on Friday, after Beijing rolled out sweeping monetary easing measures a month…