Banks, hospitals reduce hours for golden week

Banks, hospitals reduce hours for golden week
Shanghai Daily, China - 21 hours agoMOST banks, stores and hospitals in the city will be open during the weeklong Labor Day holiday, although business hours may be changed, and some services will ...

DSM plunges below 9,000-level
Gulf Times, Qatar - 7 hours ago... The industrial counter took a severe hit as its index contracted by 3.34%, followed by banks (1.81%), insurance (1.62%) and services (1.48%). ...

KKR banks mkt $360 mn loan for Flextronics
Financial Express, India - 3 hours agoSINGAPORE, MAY 1 : Banks for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts are asking lenders to join a 360 million US dollar loan that the buyout firm is getting to purchase the ...

Another poverty reduction strategy
Nigerian Tribune, Nigeria - 17 hours ago... Recall also how the community banks failed to connect. ... One of these is the opportunity provided for existing NGOs to operate micro-finance banks. ...

Dubai eyes stakes in banks in Asia, West Asia
Economic Times, India - 17 hours ago... Government of Dubai, is set to spread its footprints across Asia.The investment company from the Middle East is looking at taking stakes in banks across Asia ...

Banks' NPL ratio falls to 8%
Shanghai Daily, China - 22 hours agoTHE combined non-performing loan ratio of China's commercial banks dropped to 8.0 percent at the end of March from 8.6 percent a quarter ago, the China Banking ...

Insurers may suffer from banking wars
Bangkok Post, Thailand - 18 hours agoCurrent heavy competition for deposits among banks will affect the insurance business, especially insurers that rely largely on bancassurance, according to an ...

Bankers bank on SEZs for credit growth
Financial Express, India - 16 hours ago... demand for credit. The last fiscal saw a huge non food credit growth, and the banks are gearing up for this. According to estimates ...

US pressures Arab banks over PA
Judeoscope.ca, Canada - 12 hours agoWASHINGTON - The US administration is exerting pressure on Arab banks in an attempt to prevent money transfers to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. ...