SEOUL, Sept 4 - Home-backed loans in South Korea increased by more than 4 trillion won ($3.22 billion) in August from the previous month, a regulator said, suggesting recent policy measures had failed to curb...
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China<601398><1398>, the world's largest lender by market value, extended RMB 38.1 billion in new loans last month, said ICBC President Yang Kaisheng, the official Shanghai Securities News reported today.Yang said that new RMB loans issued by China's Big Four state-...
China's new loans fell to RMB 320 billion in August, hitting a new record low for the second consecutive month this year, said two sources familiar with the matter.A finance source said that the figure is just a preliminary statistic computed by the China Banking Regulatory Commission and that an accurate figure...
As of August 30, China's big four banks loaned about 135 billion yuan that month, a well-informed source told CBN Monday. This means that new bank loans in the country would fall further to about 300 billion yuan or even less from 355.9 billion yuan in July. The big four banks combined loaned 165...
SEOUL, Aug 31 - South Korea's central bank said on Monday it plans to roll over up to $800 million out of $2 billion in foreign-currency loans that it has lent to local banks and...
HONG KONG, Aug 27 (Reuters Basis Point) - Air China Ltd <0753.HK> is seeking a HK$5.25 billion ($677 million) loan to help fund an $808 million deal to raise its stake in Cathay Pacific Airways...
LAGOS, Aug 25 - Nigeria's anti-corruption police said on Tuesday some debtors to five banks rescued in a $2.6 billion bailout had obtained loans under false pretences and could be prosecuted for conspiring with the...
SEOUL, Aug 25 - Mortgage loans owed by South Korean households rose by their fastest annual pace in more than two years in the second quarter, data showed on Tuesday, underscoring concerns about potential asset...
SEOUL, Aug 25 - Mortgage loans owed by South Korean households rose by their fastest annual pace in more than two years in the second quarter, data showed on Tuesday, underscoring concerns about potential asset...
MANILA, Aug 24 - The Asian Development Bank has approved a $500 million loan from its counter-cyclical fund to help the Philippines' plug a record budget shortfall this year, a senior finance department official said...