THE COMPANY: Established in 1944, Bangkok Bank (BBL) is the largest commercial bank in Thailand and the seventh-largest regional bank in South-east Asia. It had total assets of roughly $69bn as of March 2012 and is Thailand's market leader in the corporate segment with the largest retail customer base in...
What have been the direct and indirect impacts of the late-2011 floods on the Thai banking system?
How will the implementation of a new trading platform at the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) affect the market in 2012?
Alongside commercial banks Thailand has licensed a range of state-owned financial companies with mandates that go beyond banking profits, incorporating social benefits and national development goals. Tensions between this group of eight specialist lenders and commercial banks increased in 2011.
One of the longest-running issues cited by capital markets watchers in Thailand is the issue of the country’s two derivatives exchanges, the Thailand Futures Exchange (TFEX) and the Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET).
Capital markets in Thailand offer investors a growing range of options with an increasing share of the country’s 65m citizens, adding to a more liquid retail investor base. Tax incentives to encourage initial public offerings (IPOs) have led to an equities market of many choices, and in recent years the fixed-income options have increased as well....
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