Monday, September 1, 2014

Singapore's Phillip Capital acquires Malaysian-owned Cambodian bank


1 September 2014

The Singapore-based Phillip Capital Group has purchased a Malaysian-owned Hwang-DBS Commercial Bank in Cambodia for 40 million U.S. dollars and rebranded it as Phillip Bank on Thursday.

Phillip Bank's chairman said the Phillip Capital Group, which is an Asian financial service provider, acquired the bank in March this year after Hwang-DBS (Malaysia) Bhd decided to exit its business in Cambodia. The Southeast Asian nation has the population of about 14.8 million with 35 commercial banks in operations.

According to the NBC, those banks are serving approximately 2 million borrowers and 3 million depositors. As of June this year, a total asset in Cambodia's whole banking system was up to 14.5 billion U.S. dollars.

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