{"id":159692,"date":"2025-08-21T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bank-of-east-asia-profits-rise-on-robust-wealth-management-business\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:06:53","slug":"bank-of-east-asia-profits-rise-on-robust-wealth-management-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/bank-of-east-asia-profits-rise-on-robust-wealth-management-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of East Asia profits rise on robust wealth-management business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBank of East Asia (BEA), Hong Kong\u2019s largest family-owned lender, beat expectations with 14 per cent growth in its first-half net profit, as a robust wealth-management business offset an increase in bad debt from commercial real estate.<br \/>\nThe bank recorded HK$2.41 billion (US$309 million) in net profit for the six months to June, or 86 HK cents per share, compared with HK$2.11 billion a year earlier, according to a stock exchange filing on Thursday. Analysts had expected 11 per cent profit&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : South China Morning Post&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/3322674\/bank-east-asia-profits-rise-wealth-business-offsets-bad-property-loans-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bank of East Asia profits rise on robust wealth-management business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Bank of East Asia (BEA), Hong Kong\u2019s largest family-owned lender, beat expectations with 14 per&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-FxG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47441,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/wheelock-shares-hit-historic-high-after-record-annual-core-profit-officials-expect-hk-home-prices-to-rise-5-pc-this-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":159692,"position":0},"title":"Wheelock shares hit historic high after record annual core profit. 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