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PHILIPPINES GOVT SAYS BANKING SECTOR WELL-CAPITALIZED.
MANILA, Dec 2 Asia Pulse - Improved asset quality and the reduced level of non-performing loans (NPLs) of commercial banks have contributed significantly to the stability in the country's banking system.
In fact, the banking system's capital base was above its domestic and internationally prescribed capital standards, says a Bangko Sentral's third quarter report.
Although it said that lending did not appreciate well, despite the strong liquidity. BSP records show that total stock of outstanding commercial bank loans fell further from its previous level in July 2002 by 2.9 per cent as compared to its decline in April 2002.
BSP reasoned out that the banks continued to be cautious in extending new credits to those creditors who wanted to expand their business operations.
Instead, most of them have parked their funds in fixed government securities or with the BSP's reverse repurchase and special deposit account facilities due to weak corporate credit demand.
As of August 2002, the banks' excess fund placements with the BSP's facilities reached P93.8 billion (US$1.73 billion) and P6 billion from P28.2 billion and nil as of end of dec. 2001.
It also reported that the ratio of net worth to risk assets of banks ...
- ANALYSIS - TAIWAN THE HOTTEST MARKET FOR NPLS: E&Y.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News June 26, 2003 700+ words
...assets from around 20 cents in the dollar to 50 cents. The main investors...speedy disposal of NPLs, just one deal has...loans to around 15 per cent down from the present...have been reducing NPLs by around five per cent a year. If they were...
- NPLs OF SMALL, MEDIUM-SIZED BANKS IN CHINA DROP.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News February 6, 2007 700+ words
...8 billion), and the rate of NPLs, 2.96 per cent, a decrease of 31.058 billion...of this year. The outstanding NPLs of the 11 city commercial banks...billion yuan; and the rate of NPLs, 6 per cent, down 1.7 percentage points...
- INDONESIAN BANK RESTRUCTURING AGENCY DENIES NPLS ARE ON THE RISE.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News October 10, 2003 700+ words
...more thoroughly which way the NPLs are moving," Syafruddin...gross NPL is now 8.3 per cent and net NPL is 1.3 per cent and the NPL has the potential...that banks must not have net NPLs of more than 5 per cent. A quarterly report by the...
- MOST CHINESE BANKERS SEE RISE IN NPLS: SURVEY.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News September 9, 2009 700+ words
...total respondents, 55 per cent believed that NPLs would increase, 28 per cent...and the remaining 17 per cent thought that NPLs would not rise. However...seen post-2010 and 19 per cent even believed NPLs would increase at the end...
- FOREIGN INVESTMENT FIRMS EAGER TO BUY NPLS IN CHINA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News December 12, 2006 700+ words
...still have a large number of NPLs on their books. "The overwhelming...private equity investments, NPLs are no longer the only game in...Foreign investors prefer NPLs to be secured by land or real...25 million. Thirty one per cent would like to have investment...
- ANALYSIS - OPPORTUNITY FOR CHINA'S STATE BANKS TO REDUCE NPLS.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News June 13, 2003 700+ words
...opportunity" for cutting NPLs to the required rate...to less than 15 per cent before 2005. The...rate was 24.13 per cent. Over the past three...their outstanding NPLs fell by more than...of only 0.5 per cent. Shortly after assuming...efforts to recover their NPLs and to strengthen...
- DBS Thai Danu sells nearly all NPLs at 29% of face value.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Banker September 1, 2000 700+ words
...4bn. The bank's total NPLs are now 14.1 per cent of total lending. Its...sheets are less healthy. NPLs for the Thai banking system...down from a peak of 48 per cent but far from the year...only recovering 40 per cent of NPLs.
- NPLS IN FOUR OF CHINA'S STATE-OWNED BANKS MAY DROP 3-4% IN 2003.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 29, 2003 700+ words
...banks to drop 3-4 per cent in 2003, with the outstanding NPLs decreasing 70 to 80...weighted average of the NPLs in the four banks was 26.12 per cent by the end of 2002...cent to 24.13 per cent, with the outstanding NPLs decreasing 27.1 billion...