Interbank Lending Market

Business Digest, December 17, 2012

17 Dec 2012

US prosecutors plan to file charges this week against multiple bankers linked to UBS rigging of Tokyo interbank lending rates.

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Banks under pressure to raise lending rates despite global cut

11 Oct 2008

Hong Kong banks are under increasing pressure to raise the lending rates they charge consumers, even though central banks around the world have cut interest rates to ease the financial crisis and...

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HK interbank rates remain steady

26 Sep 2007

Hong Kong interbank rates remained firm yesterday as upcoming initial public offerings pushed fund demand.

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Lenders keep watch over softening rates

6 Jul 2007

Hong Kong's interbank rates fell slightly yesterday after retail subscriptions for Fosun International's initial public offering ended, but lenders said rates still would remain high in the near...

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Our economy's efficient use of money keeping lid on interest rates

28 Jul 2006

IT IS QUITE understandable that our banks do not want to match the United States on more interest rate rises. The trend in Hong Kong is down, not up. We have got ourselves into a liquidity...

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Composite rate reaches record amid liquidity crunch

20 Jun 2006

Higher interest rate for time deposits in line with US move also leads to increase

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Home loan rate increase likely soon

Banks' latest rise for term deposits signals mortgage payments are set to jump

Hong Kong banks yesterday raised the interest rates they offer on term deposits, signalling an imminent...

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Property view will be clearer when cheap money goes out the door

HOW UNUSUAL WITH the Hong Kong economy well into recovery for a good deal more than a year that the interest rate you can negotiate with a bank for a new mortgage is still at a record low.

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A rate rise would be in investors' interest

SO PEOPLE ARE WORRIED that interest rates may now rise, are they? Let me stake out my position. Any bank that wants to offer me interest of more than the current derisory 10 cents a year for a $...

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HK banks keep prime 5pc despite US rate cut

The latest cut in United States interest rates is expected to hit banks with substantial lending on Hong Kong's money market, with the interbank rate being driven down.

However, local...

11:31PM

Term loan sealed

Cheung Kong (Holdings) has guaranteed a US$315 million three-year term loan for subsidiary Cheung Kong Finance. Cheung Kong said it had a lump sum repayment on maturity and carried a rate of 0.3...

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Interbank rates climb ahead of Tracker

Interbank rates and Hong Kong dollar forward premiums have edged up as foreign-fund houses borrowed in the local currency to prepare themselves for the Government's Tracker Fund subscriptions.

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