Banks are convinced that commercial risk-reward trade-offs and customer inconvenience do not fully justify the new transaction signing token for e-banking.
Restrictions on foreign ownership of domestic banks likely to threaten Indonesia’s growth prospects as capital demands far exceed domestic funding capabilities.
Domestic consumer and credit demand sustains performances of Malaysian banks against economic downturn, while regulatory initiatives are put in place to ensure sustainability of banking sector.
Financial services M&A across has picked up pace again in the first half of 2011 after the decline in 2010, but potential dealers must overcome regulatory and human capital issues to reap the full benefits.
Malaysia’s central bank grants approval for CIMB and Maybank to begin acquisition talks with RHB with the potential to result in the creation of the biggest bank in the South East Asian region.
