EXIM BANK ชี้เศรษฐกิจไทยปี 2567 ส่งสัญญาณฟื้นตัว เครื่องยนต์สำคัญขยายตัวพร้อมกั
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EXIM BANK จึงได้พัฒนา Greenovation ที่มุ่งยกระดับสินค้าส่
สำหรับผลการดำเนินงานของ EXIM BANK ในเดือนมกราคม-มีนาคม 2567 EXIM BANK สนับสนุนผู้ประกอบการไทยให้
• สนับสนุนธุรกิจไทยสู่เวทีโลก : มีวงเงินอนุมัติสินเชื่อใหม่ 5,853 ล้านบาท มีสินเชื่อคงค้างและภาระผูกพัน 174,196 ล้านบาท เพิ่มขึ้น 11,474 ล้านบาท หรือ 7.05% เมื่อเทียบกับช่วงเดียวกันของปี
• ส่งต่อความยั่งยืนเพื่อสังคม : มีสินเชื่อคงค้างและภาระผูกพั
• สร้างโอกาสการลงทุน : มีสินเชื่อคงค้างและภาระผูกพั
• เสริมเกราะป้องกันความเสี่ยง : EXIM BANK มีปริมาณธุรกิจบริการประกั
ณ สิ้นเดือนมีนาคม 2567 EXIM BANK มีจำนวนลูกค้า 5,607 ราย ในจำนวนนี้เป็นลูกค้า SMEs มากถึง 81.15% นอกจากนี้ EXIM BANK ยังสนับสนุนผู้ประกอบการอย่
“ปี 2567 EXIM BANK เดินหน้า Go the Extra Mile ชูบทบาท Green Development Bank สร้าง Greenovationช่วยเหลือผู้
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EXIM Thailand Underlines 2024 Thailand’s Economic Outlook with First Export Growth in 2 Years and Highlights Export Supply Chain Greenovation with Relaxed Interest Rates for Businesses of All Sizes
EXIM Thailand pointed out that Thai economy in 2024 has signaled a recovery. Key economic engines have grown concurrently for the first time in 6 years, i.e., public and private consumption and investment, tourism, and export which tends to grow for the first time in 2 years, particularly for such goods as foods and beverages, home appliances, gadgets, and eco products which are of value added and for which consumers around the world are willing to pay. EXIM Thailand, as Green Development Bank, has launched Greenovation offering green financing packages with special interest rates for suppliers, manufacturers, and buyers from upstream to downstream throughout green export supply chain conducive to building up the ecosystem and low carbon society.
Dr. Rak Vorrakitpokatorn, President of Export-Import Bank of Thailand (EXIM Thailand), revealed that the Thai economy in 2024 has tended to turn around to a growth rate of 2-3% attributable to the concurrent growth of such main economic engines as public and private consumption and investment, tourism, and export. Export is likely to grow for the first time in the past two years even amid the current geopolitical conflict uncertainties, slow recovery of manufacturing sector, and high household debts, thanks to the global economic and trade growth forecasts for 2024 of 3.2% and 2.8% respectively and rising trends of global oil and commodity prices, which have accordingly pushed up prices of Thai export goods.
EXIM Thailand’s President further said that Thai entrepreneurs need to be adaptable and explore fresh opportunities in the world markets. They should uplift the quality and value of goods to penetrate the markets with demand for Thai goods, particularly foods and beverages, home appliances, gadgets, and eco products, alongside keeping abreast of latest news and information and observing environment-related trade measures in export to such main markets as the US, EU, China, Japan, and India, which aggregately represented 51% of Thailand’s total export value in 2023. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in 2021, Thailand’s export of eco-friendly products represented 7.6% of its total export value, lower than that of several countries, e.g., Germany (15.4%), Japan (15%), China (10.4%), and South Korea (10.2%).
In view of the above circumstances, EXIM Thailand has developed Greenovation aiming to level up Thai export goods to eco products or green products along with building green export supply chain covering procurement of environmentally harmless raw materials, manufacturing process with mitigation of pollution emissions, packaging with naturally degradable materials, and transportation using clean energy, etc. The Bank is a lead bank that offers financial solutions addressing the greenhouse gas emission scopes 1-2-3, giving support for go-green production processes, use of renewable energy, and eco-friendly business operation of suppliers. EXIM Thailand has offered green export supply chains with special interest rates starting from 3.85% per annum to suppliers and end buyers of entrepreneurs throughout the export-related supply chain to enable small, medium, and large entrepreneurs to access low-cost financial source on an equitable basis and with reference to interest rates applicable to sponsors.
As regards EXIM Thailand’s operating results during January-March 2024, EXIM Thailand has empowered Thai entrepreneurs to well compete on the global stage and expand trade and investment both at home and overseas alongside enhancing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) awareness among Thai businesses to ensure sustainable growth.
• Support for Thai businesses to go global: New loan approvals of 5,853 million baht and outstanding loans and commitments of 174,196 million baht, up by 11,474 million baht or 7.05% year-on-year.
• Enhancement of sustainability for the society: ESG-related outstanding loans and commitments of 67,310 million baht, representing 38.64% of total outstanding loans and commitments and growing by as high as 55.19% year-on-year, and of this amount 12,475 million baht went to SMEs.
• Bringing investment opportunities: 127,516 million baht in outstanding loans and commitments for investment, up by 7.14% year-on-year, and 50,210 million baht in outstanding loans and commitments for international projects, with 43,257 million baht of which going to the CLMV and new frontiers on the back of EXIM Thailand’s support for Thai businesses to expand to such principal markets.
• Strengthening with immunity against risks: Total business turnover of export credit and investment insurance amounting to 54,092 million baht, up by 7.45% year-on-year.
As of the end of March 2024, EXIM Thailand recorded a total of 5,607 customers, of whom as high as 81.15% were SMEs. Besides, the Bank has supported entrepreneurs on a full-fledged basis by making available entrepreneur incubation, knowledge development, business matching, and financial advisory services. As of the end of March 2024, entrepreneurs with potential enhancement by EXIM Thailand was in the accumulated number of approximately 19,840.
Meanwhile, EXIM Thailand has attached high importance to sustainable financial management. The Bank recorded total NPL amount of 8,600 million baht with NPL ratio of 4.99% as of the end of March 2024, and set aside allowance for expected credit loss of 15,972 million baht, hence NPL coverage ratio of 185.72%, which is a strong financial position. The Bank accordingly posted an operating profit of 805 million baht, up by 18.71% year-on-year, and a net profit of 132 million baht as of the end of quarter 1 of 2024.
“For 2024, EXIM Thailand will continue to go the extra mile highlighting our role as the Green Development Bank. We have developed and adopted the Greenovation to assist Thai entrepreneurs of all business sizes in the green export supply chain with special interest rates on a par with those for large entrepreneurs with a view to developing Thailand’s eco products to meet global market demand, fueling the growth of Thai export for the first time in the past 2 years, and building the low carbon society to solve global environmental problems in response to the government policy. This has been implemented in conjunction with the reduction of our prime rate, or the MRR of commercial banks, by a total of 0.40% since the beginning of the year to stay at 6.35% per annum, which is the industry’s lowest MRR. Such a move is aimed to help ease burden of entrepreneurs, SMEs in particular, and further develop the Greenovation to drive sustainable development from community level to national and global levels,” added Dr. Rak.
