Singapore proves misery loves company in bad debt Asia

Singapore proves misery loves company in bad debt Asia

DBS Bank | Image from Bloomberg

Chinese banks are justifiably on investors’ radar for shuffling some of their more wobbly credit risk into wealth management products. However, when it comes to misery camped off balance sheet, the People’s Republic has company elsewhere in Asia: More than 11 percent of the bad assets reported by Singapore’s largest lender aren’t loans at all but contingent liabilities.

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