Tag: loans

Treasurers, CFOs and sell-siders delivered their verdicts over the future of funding in 2013 during the second annual Asia-Pacific Corporate Funding Forum held in Hong Kong on March 6th.

Total global syndicated loan volume was down 16% in 2012. Asia-Pacific loans fared comparatively well and fell only 3%, mainly due to a buoyant Japanese market.

Troubles in shipping has caused the 78-year-old Japanese liner, Sanko Steamship Company’s chartering business model to collapse as it declared bankruptcy this month.

The People’s Bank of China has made the groundbreaking decision to allow banks greater flexibility in interest rate policy. For years it had been of the opinion that rigid control of rate policy would protect banks from painful losses on bad loans.

CFO Jason Lau Sik-yuen shares his savvy strategy on obtaining cheap loans, how his company fended off anti-dumping allegations and why maintaining good credit has drawn bankers to his door.

European banks are pulling financing out of Asia with Singapore and Hong Kong badly hurt, especially in trade finance. Asian banks are taking some of the slack.

Chinese lenders need to relent on nationalistic demands as a requirement for finance to ailing ship owners.

Knowing where CFOs want to park their money is gold dust to a bank. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's results of a recent survey, though mixed, do reveal opportunity for global banks, but only for those with a strong Asian presence and balance sheet.