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KATMANDU, September 28: The country’s commercial banks have granted loans to their customers nearly four times the amount of deposits collected last week despite a liquidity crisis in recent days. According to the Nepal Bankers Association (NBA), banks issued loans of 31 billion rupees in a week last Friday compared …
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KATMANDU, September 17: The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on Thursday injected an additional 20 billion rupees into the national financial system in an attempt to alleviate the growing lack of liquidity in the banking system. According to NRB, he issued a pension worth the donated amount through the bidding process …
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Financial institution loans to the agriculture and land reform sector fell 2.76 p.c on the finish of final yr, additionally beneath the prescribed threshold, in line with information from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas ( BSP). The banking system put aside 713.599 billion pesos for the sector on the finish of …
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