Malaysia’s banking sector is well-capitalised and stable, with larger financial institutions now looking at overseas expansion to increase their clout. The regulators’ encouragement of consolidation under the Financial Sector Master Plan, which ended in 2010, reduced the number of banks from around 20 down to 8 major institutions. These have high capital-adequacy ratios and low ratios of non-...
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Las instituciones de microfinanzas y los bancos en el Perú están buscando expandir sus operaciones en áreas rurales, donde existe un amplio espacio para la expansión y para combatir la desaceleración del crecimiento en el sector de las microfinanzas en los últimos tiempos.
With one of the world’s most commanding positions in the global energy industry and a growing role in regional diplomacy, Qatar has seen many returns on the political and economic investments it has made in the past two decades.
The potential of mobile phone banking in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been evident ever since a local telecoms company launched a service in 2009 allowing subscribers to purchase electricity by using pre-paid airtime credit. For PNG’s banks, it presents the easiest route to tapping into the nation’s 87.5% rural population.
High levels of liquidity and a total loan book that accounts for just half of deposits characterise the Algerian banking sector. The industry remains dominated by publicly owned banks, which constitute around nine-tenths of deposits and loans, though foreign-backed private banks are major players in trade finance and are highly profitable. Penetration is roughly in line with neighbouring...
The banking sector is still dealing with fallout from the 2009 economic crisis, but banks are slowly reducing their bad debt ratios thanks to new requirements set out by the central bank and due to come into effect next year.