In a bid to stop dropping the devaluation of Cambodia’s national currency, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) sold US$6 million to make the value of the riel stable and wanted to retain riel value at about 4,000 riel to every dollar. The National Bank of Cambodia is the Central Bank which is an autonomous [...]
On Wednesday, May 27, 2009, the National Assembly passed unanimously the draft law on financial lease that is allow banks to issue leases for equipment, machinery and vehicles to business and enterprises in the wake of the global financial crisis. This law does not apply to land or real estate. Chea Chanto, governor of the [...]
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 [...]
While East Asian countries have entered the current crisis substantially better prepared than they were for the 1997 Asian financial crisis, none have been spared the full fury of the global economic storm, says the World Bank’s latest six-monthly assessment of the East Asia & Pacific region’s economic health. In the face of weakening export [...]