Topic : CIMB Thai Bank has adjusted its commercial-banking strategies for this year, focusing more on fee income to offset a decline in interest income as lending has slumped.
New Commercial-banking strategies:
1. Focuses on transactional [banking] in cross-border trade, and treasury and
commodity hedging.
2. Focuses on fee-income will have to rise to 15% from 11% in 2014.
3. Set target of fee-income at 30-40% of the total within five years.
4. Profit before tax and provisions in 2015 is expected to grow by 40% from Bt1.31 billion in 2014.
Past:
1. Focuses on small and medium-sized enterprises.
2. New loans by the commercial banking group amounted to just under Bt20 billion against the targeted of Bt22 billion.
3. Net loans were Bt9.3 billion lower than the targeted Bt10 billion.
4. Outstanding loans grew by 20% to Bt52.5 billion.
Lending policy:
1. Give priority to small businesses that require credit lines of no more than Bt20 million.
Target Market:
1. The bank targets new loans of Bt3 million to Bt5 million from small businesses.
2. Emphasis on medium-sized ones that require credit lines between Bt20 million and Bt60 million.
Cuatious:
1. It will be cautious when dealing with businesses requiring more than Bt60 million as the economy remains sky.
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