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Korea’s liquidity squeeze
Published: December 17 2007 09:10 | Last updated: December 17 2007 19:38
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Has the global credit crunch, having largely bypassed Asia, turned up in South Korea?
With banks scrambling to secure funding and the three-month interbank rate at three
-year highs, Korea’s financial system is displaying some eerily similar signs of stress.
Structurally, Korea is Asia’s most obvious port of call for credit jitters.
Korean and Australian banks alone in the region lend far more than they pull in from
depositors ?
Korea’s loan/deposit ratio stands at 130 per cent compared with 60-80 per cent in
the rest of Asia. Dynamics have deteriorated as banks have stepped up lending
(largely to small and medium-sized enterprises) and depositors have withdrawn savings.
Commercial banks’ deposit base has been whittled back by 2 per cent so far this year,
according to JPMorgan.