customer approval criteria for commercial lending policies, and closely monitored small and micro businesses. At the same time, KBank has been continually cautious in credit underwriting of retail customers

reclassification of risky industries, and those industries under control. At the same time, KBank has remained cautious in credit underwriting of retail customers’ loans (consumer loans), and focused mainly on

around the globe turned cautious as investors resorted to increasing their holdings of safe-haven assets, prompting Thai and US bond yields to drop across all maturities. The Federal Reserve was thus

vulnerable, however, many central banks may adopt a cautious stance in their monetary policies, primarily taking into account the right timing to mitigate possible foreign exchange volatilities as well as

trend. Amid the trade rift which may make the global economic recovery vulnerable, however, many central banks are likely to adopt a cautious stance in their monetary policy while also placing their focus

Thailand Taxonomy Board The Thailand Taxonomy Board is established to develop Thailand Taxonomy, a classification system of economic activities deemed as environmentally-sustainable. The Board comprises agencies from both the public and private sectors to ensure all sectors’ views are reflected. In the initial phase, the list of agencies is as follows: 1. Bank of Thailand (BOT)* 2. The Securities and Exchange Commission, Thailand (SEC)* 3. Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and...

expansion of the economy, better loan management in the commercial banking system, banks’ cautious lending policies, and the Bank of Thailand’s macroprudential measures to control risky loans. Moreover, banks

pace. However, commercial banks will still be cautious in their lending policies. The relatively high level of capital and increases in reserves will continue to provide a cushion for the system’s NPL

expectation for the sector’s fundamentals and/or valuation is cautious over the next 12 months. *An analyst’s coverage sector consists of all companies covered by the analyst within the relevant sector. An

quality control systems of the audit firms should be the main selection criteria, rather than the amount of audit fees. The results of the second-cycle audit inspections (2013 – 2015) suggest that both the