Increased Uncertainty, Credit Supply, and Non-Performing Loans in the Eurozone

The Impact of Provisioning Policies on Non-Performing Loans

The Central Bank has specific regulations, including asset classification guidelines and how to perform loan’s loss provisioning to oversee banks and credit institutions. The Central Bank seeks to improve the quality of the loan and reduce the amount of non-performing loans by reducing the revenues of the bank or credit institution through imposing fine on balance of each of the categories of n...

Resolution of Non-Performing Loans in China

Non-performing loans in the Banking Union: stocktaking and challenges

This briefing presents the state of play of non-performing loans (NPL) in the euro area, and provides an overview of the various measures implemented across Member States to facilitate their resolution. The first section briefly presents the various levels of NPL ratios and coverage ratios in the euro area, across Member States, sectors, and groups of banks. The second section explains the detr...

Dealing with non-performing loans of banks.PDF

A lot of confusion and misunderstanding has been created by several commentators on the issue of non-performing loans (NPLs) of banking system. They take the absolute amount of such loans at the current point of time and compare it with the quantum of such loans in October 1999 and make a hue and cry that the situation has deteriorated because the quantum of NPLs has gone up. Such a simplistic ...

Non-Performing Loans and Productivity in Chinese Banks: 1997-2006

This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China over the ten years to 2006. Using a bootstrap method for the Malmquist index estimates of productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals. The paper adjusts for the quality of the output by accounting for the non-performing loans on the balance sheets and test for the robustness of the results...