The Latest Breaking News from Bangkok Bank

Advanced Info Service (AIS) has unveiled its long-term business direction, which it calls an ecosystem economy, aiming at strengthening its operations and economic growth through partnerships.

Advanced Info Service (AIS) and Bangkok Bank have launched their first co-branded card on a digital platform with the introduction of the Be1st Digital AIS POINTS debit card.

Bangkok Bank said on Thursday it would raise deposit rates by a maximum of 0.25 percentage points and increase loan rates by between 0.15 and 0.20 points.

Bangkok Bank (BBL) plans to maintain the loan proportion of its international banking business at the existing level of 24-25% of total loans for the next few years, despite the high growth potential of regional markets.

Thailand is expected to eke out annual economic growth of about 3% over the next two years despite a looming global recession, says Bangkok Bank economist Kobsak Pootrakool.

Bangkok Bank (BBL) has pledged to extend the repayment date and reduce the interest rate on a loan worth 13.3 billion baht which Jasmine Broadband Internet Infrastructure Fund (JASIF) still owes, if the fund's unitholders approve Advanced Info Service (AIS)'s purchase of the fund's units held by Jasmine International (JAS).

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is expected to raise the policy interest rate for the first time in two years by 0.25% on Wednesday to 0.75%, as inflation soared above 7% in the last two months, bringing an end to a low-interest era, analysts say.

PHUKET: A man armed with a revolver held up a Bangkok Bank branch at the Lotus department store in Rawai area of Muang district on Monday and fled with 160,000 baht.

Twenty-five years ago this month marked the beginning of economic, political and financial market turmoil that would become known as the Asian Financial Crisis. Currencies and stock markets tumbled. Governments were overthrown. Poverty rates soared.