Small business need to access finance

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Due to the effect of the global economic slowdown, the large-scale investments in Cambodia are slowing down. It is hopeful that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in improving economic development and creating sustainable employment and income, said Cham Prasidh, Ministry of Commerce, at the Tuesday’s meeting in Phnom Penh. The meeting [...]

Commercial banks standardize check format

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Bankers said on Tuesday that all Cambodian banks issue the standardization of check format, customers will have several months to exchange their old checkbooks for the new standardized books, reported the Cambodia Daily. The new checks, which are a standard size, paper-type and share the same coding system, will eventually allow the National Bank of [...]

Commercial banks expand ATM networks

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

The global financial crisis did not affect strongly the local commercial banks in Cambodia because most of banks don’t depend on foreign source of finance, and loans from other foreign banks and also don’t buy stocks in the international market. At the mean time, Cambodia has not yet created stock exchange. As Cambodia’s banking sector [...]

Cambodia is a target for money laundering

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Money laundering happens in almost every country in the world, and a single scheme typically involves transferring money through several countries in order to obscure its origins. In practice, criminals are trying to disguise the origin of money obtained through illegal activities so it looks like it was obtained from legal sources. The most money [...]