{"id":135478,"date":"2025-08-29T11:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135478"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:23:28","slug":"profitability-pressure-grows-for-chinas-state-banks-amid-low-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135478","title":{"rendered":"Profitability pressure grows for China\u2019s state banks amid low rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s top banks face continued pressure, as a slowing economy, lower interest rates and weak loan demand weighed on first-half earnings.<br \/>\nNet profit at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world\u2019s largest bank by assets, fell 1.4 per cent in the first half from a year earlier to 168.1 billion yuan (US$23.5 billion), according to its interim results announced on Friday after the market closed.<br \/>\nIts net interest margin (NIM), a key indicator of a bank\u2019s profitability, fell to 1.3&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3323686\/profitability-pressure-grows-chinas-state-banks-amid-low-rates-poor-loan-demand?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s top banks face continued pressure, as a slowing economy, lower interest rates and weak loan demand weighed on first-half earnings. Net profit at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}