Nowadays, FinTech is no longer a buzz word in media. In November 2020, International Financial Corporation (“IFC”), members of the…
The major benefit of syndication to Borrower is the large financing amount to be provided by a group of lenders for capital intensive project. Since all lenders share the same credit risk for a single transaction, Borrower do not have to approach and negotiate with numerous lenders to fulfil a single purpose substantial financing. Syndication loans save the time and most likely the cost of financing for Borrower. Imagine if a lender could save the time to conduct due diligence, terms negotiation and client acquisition, the lender would accept a lower lending rate due to saved staff cost and administrative cost…..(read more)
Syndication loan is a financing offered by a group of lenders who committed to provide a financing with the same terms and condition under a single financing agreement. The key benefit for a syndication loan lender instead of bilateral loan…….(Read more)
One of the most panic questions to business owner is the processing time of business financing generally take longer time than the business financing needs. In traditional commercial banks, the average time to funding of Corporate Lending (a general business financing term including SME financing) is generally around Three Months. The time to funding count from the financing application to funding deposited to bank account. From an experienced banker point of view, these processing cycle make sense as data collection, KYC, industry research, data verification, internal credit proposal parathion, credit approval negotiation and account opening all need time to process. From business owner perspective, these times is unacceptable as business needs change quickly and seldom has business can foresee the financing needs prior three months ago.(continue reading)
You may be familiar with this banking experience: people jostling one another, snakelike queues moving slowly and staff unhurriedly handling paper documents. For most people, this probably won’t be a pleasant experience. But have you ever wondered why we have to go to a branch banking in person, hand over stacks of paper documents and wait for the enduring review process?……(continue reading)
In previous articles, we talked about Working Capital Loan and Trade Finance in Corporate Banking. Those are short-term financing products for small and medium enterprises. For the more sophisticated enterprises or even investment consortium, they may borrow longer term for various loan purposes like Capital Expenditure, Refinancing and even for Merger & Acquisition…..(continue reading)
As business owners or financial controllers, have you ever experienced the below? For the similar facility size and borrowing terms, various banks make their indicative pricing quite differently. This even happens among different bankers in the same bank. On the other hand, the competition in retail banking is fierce and price setting is relatively transparent. How could this happen? How SMEs can reduce their bank interest cost by the application of financial technology?
According to Michael Page, a recruitment consultancy who recently conducted the report “FinTech Employment 2019”, nearly 95% of Hong Kong FinTech companies are worried about the dearth of FinTech talents in terms of big data, electronic payment, virtual currency, and insurance technology……(continue reading)
Banks and regulators have utilized Risk-Adjusted Return on Capital (RAROC) to evaluate the return per credit risk, which is closely correlated with the credit score. The result can be used to assess the level of risk involved in different transactions……(continue reading)
As noted before, the digital transformation of Corporate Banking, the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence and new lending models are the three hot trends that are shaping the innovative FinTech platforms around the globe. Apart from these, Open Banking with FinTech is redefining the financial landscape. Listed below are another three big trends…(continue reading)