{"id":366556,"date":"2026-03-30T22:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366556\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:49:25","slug":"chinas-big-banks-eye-profit-relief-but-face-new-pressures-from-war-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366556\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s big banks eye profit relief but face new pressures from war, policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/finance\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finance<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Deposit repricing, abating rate pressure buoy outlook; fee rules, Iran turmoil sow doubts<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"20260330 China's Banks\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">China&#8217;s big state-owned banks expect good news ahead for their long-wallowing net interest margins &#8212; a key measure of bank profitability calculated as the difference between interest income and expenses.\u00a0 (Source photos by Reuters and Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>LORRETTA CHEN and WATARU SUZUKI<\/p>\n<p>March 30, 2026 16:09 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on March 30, 2026 21:08 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; Interest rates may be ready to turn in the favor of China&#8217;s big state-owned banks, but they still face a bumpy road to profit growth as Beijing&#8217;s economic balancing act and the Middle East conflict cast shadows on alternative sources of revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Deposit repricing, abating rate pressure buoy outlook; fee rules, Iran turmoil sow doubts China&#8217;s big state-owned banks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5461,11516,114,59329,184,27351,25213,85,46,3716,4555,176642,5611,1305,2201],"class_list":["post-366556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-banks","tag-big","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-economy","tag-eye","tag-face","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-new","tag-policy","tag-pressures","tag-profit","tag-relief","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}