All posts tagged "NPLs"
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512Capital RegulationChina Intervenes to Support a Third Troubled Bank
China’s sovereign wealth fund and the Shandong provincial government will invest in Hengfeng Bank, which failed to disclose its financial statements for two straight years.
August 12, 2019 -
477Capital RegulationChina to Support Banks that Swap Corporate Debt for Equity
The new measures encourage banks to set up subsidiaries to invest in debt-for-equity swaps, helping them to offload distressed debt and ease rising NPL pressures.
August 1, 2019 -
522Capital RegulationNational Auditor Finds Lending Violations at Chinese Banks
Lenders were found to be favouring borrowers with deposits at their banks, linking loans to the sale of other products, and illegally charging financing fees.
June 28, 2019 -
462Capital RegulationChina: Regulatory Pressure Prompts Lending Rate Price War
ICBC was reportedly the first bank to lower its lending rate on small business loans, offering a rate of 4.5% in Q4 2018, compared to the PBOC's one-year benchmark lending rate of 4.35%.
May 20, 2019 -
520Capital Regulation
Chinese Banks Record Highest NPLs Since 2003
Despite the rise in overall NPLs at China's commercial banks, a boost in new lending and bad asset disposal resulted in lower NPL ratios.
May 13, 2019 -
523Capital RegulationCBIRC Issues Stricter Rules for Banks on Loan Classification
The new rules broaden the range of assets banks have to classify. If more than 5% of a borrower's loans are 90 days past due, all loans from that borrower will be classified as non-performing.
May 2, 2019 -
523Capital Regulation
China’s Henan Province Has an NPL Problem – Report
Of Henan's 93 commercial banks, 42 have high levels of nonperforming loans, a dozen of which reported an NPL ratio above 20%, 'several' as high as 40%.
April 8, 2019 -
741Capital RegulationRBI Again Defers Banks’ Implementation of New Accounting Standards
The RBI has again deferred 'until further notice' the implementation of new accounting rules for banks, which could have forced banks to raise bad loan provisions by $16bn in H2, said Fitch.
March 25, 2019 -
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China Banks Allowed Higher Bad Debt Ratios for ‘Inclusive’ Loans
Regulators will tolerate higher NPL ratios on bank lending to small and micro companies, in a bid to improve access to financing for China's ‘real economy’.
March 18, 2019 -
577Asia-PacificBangladesh to Make Sweeping Banking Sector Reforms
Bangladesh Bank is spearheading a wide-ranging policy review to tackle soaring NPLs and willful defaulters in the nation’s banking sector.
March 7, 2019
