Non-Performing Loans: Regulatory and Accounting Treatments of Assets

Investigating the Assets Quality in Banking System in Iran with Emphasis on Liquidity and Non-Performing Loans Reserve Buffers

In this research, the factors affecting assets quality in banking system of Iran and some implications for creating appropriate buffers of liquidity and non-performing loans in bank assets management has been investigated. In order to that, statistical data related to macroeconomic variables and financial statements of 30 banks from 2006 to 2016 have been used in the framework of a dynamic pane...

Resolution of Non-Performing Loans in China

Economic Perspectives and Accounting Issues of Japanese Banks’ Non-performing Loans

This paper is based on work undertaken as Visiting Scholar at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. I would like to thank Professor Costas Lapavitsas of SOAS for valuable comments and the many British financiers for helpful research assistance. The paper also benefited greatly from the comments of participants in the seminar at the London School of Economics and P...

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...

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 ...