supervise and ensure fair treatment for retail and SME customers will pose a heightened challenge to banking performance. To cope with these issues, commercial banks may have to fine-tune their strategies
existence of the ‘value gap’ has heightened the importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis and analysis of other intangible value-drivers, and their incorporation into investment
. Worse, Brexit risks became heightened in the wake of political change in the United Kingdom. The World Economic Outlook of the International Monetary Fund cut its 2019 global economic growth projection to
. Still, funds continued to flow into Thailand as investors sought shelter in safe-haven assets amid heightened global risks. Moreover, they saw brighter prospects in Thai bonds following the policy rate
heightened competition from other financial institutions and non-bank players, KBank has focused on strengthening customer engagement through digital channels so as to reinforce our digital banking leadership
Annual Report 2009 1 Annual Report 20092 Over the past year, the Thai economy experienced a recession for the first time since the Asian economic crisis in 1997. The first quarter saw a 7.1 percent contraction as a result of sluggish export in the midst of global financial crisis, diminishing demand of domestic private sector, and lack of confidence in economic and political directions. All these factors played out against a backdrop of weakening economies of our trade partners worldwide, which...
and environmental laws. Under these circumstances, there is a risk that the variety of legal influences may cause unintentional overlaps and even conflicts, which may frustrate the ability to pursue key
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usage as a way to support palm oil farmers. However, gross profit was still affected by Thailand’s heightened aggregate production capacity, which result in price competition of B100 product, combined
issuance to lock in their funding cost before any rate increase. Meanwhile, long-term bond yields moved within a narrow range amid heightened risks in emerging markets and escalating trade tension between