Chinese Banks

To meet official lending targets, many Chinese banks are resorting to instant loan tactics where clients take out loans briefly and repay them soon after, masking low credit demand

Chinese lenders are still facing challenges such as narrow margins and low loan rates

The combined market-capitalisation (market-cap) of the top 25 banks globally rose 5.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) in the April - June 2024 period (Q1-FY25)

Indian lenders invested heavily in expansion, opening new branches, adding customers and boosting technology infrastructure to continue as the fastest-growing major economy in the world

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The one-year loan prime rate (LPR) was kept at 3.45 per cent, while the five-year LPR was unchanged at 3.95 per cent

Bank of Communications Co. reported Wednesday that its property bad loan ratio jumped to 4.99 per cent at the end of last year from 2.8 per cent a year earlier

The stock of aggregate financing - a broad measure of credit - expanded just 9%, also near a record low

The liquidity drought may be deliberate. Unlike Beijing, New Delhi has every reason to be sanguine about growth

Hours after the announcement, regulators added more measures to bolster the slumping property and stock markets

Already stung by soaring bad loans and record low net interest margins, lenders such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. may soon be asked for the first time to provide unsecured loans

Exposure to local government financing vehicles and a deflationary economy is compounding the pressure, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Francis Chan said

Some state-owned Chinese banks are extending loans to companies and then allowing them to deposit funds at the same interest rate

China's Central bank data showed a sharp slowdown in aggregate financing, a broad measure of credit, in July, as new loans and corporate bond issuance weakened

To cope up with country's dwindling cash reserves, loan of $2.3 billion from a Chinese consortium of banks to Pakistan is expected within a "couple of days"

Struggling to find enough clients, banks have been swapping bills with each other just so they can meet regulatory requirements for corporate lending

India's ICICI Bank, at 50th spot, among newest additions to the compilation, which also has SBI (22) and HDFC Bank (44)

Chinese banks are facing the threat of rising bad loans in the future as the current economic recovery is unbalanced and lacks a solid foundation

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Lending the same amount this year would bring the outstanding balance to about 192 trillion yuan