Vietnam's central bank let 25 banks exclude social housing and industrial park loans from 2026 real estate credit caps to fund factories and affordable homes.
Category: Finance
Capital Management in Banking Needs to Stop Playing Defense
Banks hold record capital yet manage it defensively. Here is why capital management in banking became a compliance task and how to make it strategic.
AI and Private Credit Are Pulling Banks Back Into Risk
Wall Street’s biggest banks spent fifteen years learning to hold more capital, stress-test their books and stay clear of the riskiest corners of lending. They are now moving back toward...
California Property Fraud Spurs $1.34B Award and Bank Losses
A retired California judge has handed real estate owner Mohammad Honarkar a roughly $1.34 billion arbitration award against the financier he says defrauded him, closing out a years-long fight over...
ECLGS 5.0 Revives a COVID Loan Tool for the West Asia Crisis
India’s banks have cleared Rs 35,194 crore in loans under ECLGS 5.0, the fifth edition of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS, a government-backed lending programme), barely three weeks...
Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft: Three AI Stocks, One Big Bet
Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft just delivered the kind of AI numbers that end arguments. Nvidia posted $81.6 billion in quarterly revenue, AMD’s data center sales climbed 57% in a year,...
NBS Bank Bets on Family Accounts and Golf to Win Malawi Deposits
NBS Bank plc has signed up about 320 families to its new Family Banking Service since the product went live on January 18, and on the same Mzuzu stage where...
India Covers 99.92% of Villages With Banking, But Usage Lags
India has wired its villages into the formal banking system. The Finance Ministry told the Lok Sabha that 99.92% of villages now sit within five kilometres of a banking outlet,...
Bahamas Already Built the Financial Reset Its Critics Demand
The Bahamas launched the world’s first central bank digital currency in October 2020. Six years on, less than one percent of circulating Bahamian currency moves through it. That gap, between...
Colombian Banks Turn World Cup Fever into a Card-Spend Sprint
Colombian banks are turning the 2026 FIFA World Cup into a customer-acquisition tournament of their own. Bancolombia will pack Bogotá’s Movistar Arena with 8,000 cardholders on June 27, the day...










