Using data from ninety commercial banks in the Indonesian banking sector, this paper investigates the impact of the acquisition of domestic private banks by foreign banks on lending behaviour, particularly SME credit. Among foreign banks, we differentiate between acquired banks and greenfield...

In Thailand, the government has long recognized the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the economy and has given a large amount of financial support to this sector. Still, SMEs are not able to catch up with larger enterprises and the constraints to SME financing remain...