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CCB personal banking business booming
17/3/2003 16:32

The China Construction Bank (CCB) is doing brisk business in personal banking services this year, with individual deposit balances amounting to 1.3826 trillion yuan (US$166.58 billion) for the first two months of the year, an increase of 96 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, eastday.com reported today.

The deposit increase in the first two months amounted to 76 percent of the whole year target, the fastest growth in the bank's history, according to the CCB.

CCB personal consumption loans continued to increase this year, with individual loan balances reaching 35 billion yuan by the end of February, up four billion yuan from the beginning of the year.

CCB reported a bad debt of only 1.65 percent in January and February, down 0.53 percentage points from a year before.




 Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news