Jakarta / BLOOMBERG Indonesia’s top banks may get a lift from new government plans to spur the economy, which are seen boosting loan growth while allowing them to protect margins that are already among the world’s widest. The Financial Services Authority, known as OJK, will lower the ceiling for deposit rates this month for major lenders, a step it intends …

Bloomberg One week before a long-awaited stimulus decision, European Central Bank (ECB) officials are privately deliberating over how to enhance their monetary policy stance without maiming its transmission. Committees studying how to mitigate the impact on banks have prepared potential measures that range from variations on a tiered deposit rate to techniques for countering the impact of stimulus on excess …

Tokyo / Bloomberg Bank of Japan (BOJ) Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso indicated the central bank is prepared to take its benchmark rate deeper into negative territory, though not immediately. “We have designed a policy that technically allows us to cut the level further,” Nakaso told reporters in Okinawa on Thursday, referring to a minus 0.1 percent interest rate policy the …