Non performing loans: Obstacles within financial and economy sector

Financial Soundness Indicators with Emphasis on Non-performing Loans in Iran’s Banking System

This paper analyzes the financial soundness indicators in Iran`s banking system. In the first part it emphasis on asset quality measure by the non-performing loans ratio. The non-performing loans grew rapidly in last decade in Iran’s banking system and it reached higher than 25 percent of total loans in 2010. We conclude that NPLs increase have impact on real part of economy in the concept...

Financial Sector Openness: Foreign Loans vs. FDI

We construct the first general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the banking sector to compare the welfare consequences of two types of liberalization. We find that liberalizing by lifting restrictions on inflows of foreign loans is more likely to reduce the average interest rate spread (markup) than liberalizing by allowing FDI in the banking sector. Using heterogeneous, ...

Resolution of Non-Performing Loans in China

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 ...

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...