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SCB woos SMEs with clean loans
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 26/05/2018
» Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) plans to offer clean loans to small businesses and self-employed customers through mobile app SCB Easy in the next two months as part of efforts to raise the number of digital banking users.
KBank keen to outpace target range
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 28/05/2018
» Kasikornbank (KBank), the country's third-largest lender by assets, expects lending growth this year to outpace its 5-7% target range, buoyed by a growing economy.
KTB warms to auto leasing after absence
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 29/05/2018
» Krungthai Bank (KTB), the country's fourth-largest lender by assets, wants to return to the auto leasing business after cooling on the sector for years to deal with soured loans.
BoT expects profit for 2018
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 29/05/2018
» The Bank of Thailand expects its interest income will outpace that paid out this year following global interest rate hikes, making its performance from interest spread swing back to profit for the first time in several years.
KBank digital lending busts out of the gate
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 30/05/2018
» Kasikornbank's (KBank) digital lending got off to a good start with 500 million baht worth of unsecured loans being extended to individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the first quarter.
MPC: GDP improving, but domestic recovery remains uneven
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 31/05/2018
» Thai economic growth momentum has picked up pace, driven largely by robust exports, but the domestic recovery remains uneven, cramped by swelling low-income household debt, according to the edited minutes of the last Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting released yesterday.
Survey finds 40% of farmers live under poverty line
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 31/05/2018
» Some 40% of farming households are living below the poverty line, set at 32,000 baht a year, with the sector's low income and higher debt a drag on the country's economic growth, says the Bank of Thailand's Puey Ungphakorn Institute for Economic Research's (Pier) in a survey.
BoT tells banks to rein in mortgages
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 01/06/2018
» The Bank of Thailand has sounded an alarm to banks in light of the growing appetite for mortgages, urging them to retain their risk management practices when considering housing loans.
Firms hopeful about GDP
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 06/06/2018
» The business sector is more upbeat about the country's economy, saying growth could hit the upper end of the forecast band at 4.5% this year, as they await the second-quarter economic reading before reviewing the growth estimate.
Ministry, BoT affirm SME loan deadline
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 08/06/2018
» The Finance Ministry and the Bank of Thailand have confirmed that the deadline for requiring banks to use financial accounts submitted to the Revenue Department by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for loan approvals is still on track for the start of next year.