Cambodian Economy Reviews

AUSTRALIA and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd, the nation’s fourth-largest lender, plans to raise A$2.5 billion (US$2 billion) selling shares to fund a bid for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Plc’s Asian assets. The Melbourne-based bank will sell the shares to institutional investors at A$14.40 each, a 7.5 percent discount to its last traded price, [...]

EXACTLY one year after the subprime mortgage crisis first hit in the United States in July 2007, Cambodia’s central bank took measures to reduce liquidity in its undeveloped financial system by doubling reserve requirements from 8 percent to 16 percent. This move showed Phnom Penh was clearly out of sync with the world’s major financial [...]

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday said banking sector liquidity would remain tight for the rest of the year in a statement on the Cambodian economy following a routine visit to the Kingdom that ended Wednesday. The IMF blamed “slowing external inflows” for the reduction in free capital in the banking system despite recent [...]

LEADERS in the country’s IT industry expect that the global financial crisis will slow investment in Cambodia’s banking technology, but are optimistic the sector is well-positioned for an eventual recovery. “Had it not been for the world economic downturn, we would be expecting rapid development of banking technology – because that is always the case [...]