Santander loan-loss reserves eat into profits

- By Alessandro Aimone
- @aimoneale
- 07 Nov 2018

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Reserves for soured loans took a bigger bite out of Santander’s earnings in the third quarter than the second, as the bank put more cash aside to cover credit risks in its US business.

Net loan-loss provisions – calculated as reserves held for non-performing loans (NPLs) minus those returned to earnings from cured assets – grew 5% to €2.1 billion in the three months to end-September. The increase was 11% when excluding the effects of foreign exchange movements.

Group-wide provisions were

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