Non-performing loan (NPL)
China’s top banks cut PCLs by $6.9bn
Loan-loss provisions in Q4 down 96% at ABC and 63% at ICBC
The impacts of financial and macroeconomic factors on financial stability in emerging countries: evidence from Turkey’s nonperforming loans
The authors assess the impacts of financial and macroeconomic factors on financial stability in emerging economies, using Turkey's banking sector in the period 2005 Q1 to 2020 Q3 as their example.

Covid-forborne and state-backed loans keep creaking louder
Share of non-performing ex-moratoria and guaranteed exposures at EU banks balloons amid energy crisis, EBA data shows

China Merchants’ real estate NPLs double in H1
Some 3% of property development loans were non-performing, double the end-2021 level
Credit portfolio manager of the year: Intesa Sanpaolo
Risk Awards 2022: Italy’s largest lender is one of the EU’s strongest thanks to smart securitisations
PNC’s NPLs hit $2.8 billion post BBVA USA acquisition
BBVA USA add-on made up 31% of consolidated NPLs in Q2
Covid-forborne EU loans sour faster as more exit moratoria
Exposures classified as stage two rose 37% in the first three months of 2021
Systemic EU banks had €213bn of loans under moratoria at end-2020
Exposures covered by payment holidays dropped by €115bn in H2
‘Big Five’ Canadian banks’ provisions doubled in pandemic year
However, over three months to end-January, set-asides dropped dramatically
ING takes capital hit for lowballing loan-loss provisions
NPE coverage ratio fell over Q4
Credit risk of EU state-backed loans deteriorated in Q3
Almost 5% of public guarantee scheme loans are designated ‘stage two’
Covid payment holidays for €224bn of EU loans ended in Q3
French, German and Italian banks saw most loans lose moratoria protection
Impaired loans drop 17% at RBC
Repayments on bad credits up 47% quarter on quarter
EU loans under Covid moratoria have high credit risk – EBA
Banks in Austria, Iceland, Romania and Slovakia especially vulnerable, data shows
Banks in EU periphery lose most on soured loans
Irish, Spanish, Italian banks also have to wait longest to recover loaned funds to borrowers in default
Which EU banks hold the most SME exposures?
Danske Bank, Crédit Agricole, Group BPCE lead the field
At Santander, Covid relief for €75bn of loans expired through Q3
Sixteen per cent of loans coming out of payment holidays have experienced a fall in creditworthiness
A FAVAR modeling approach to credit risk stress testing and its application to the Hong Kong banking industry
In this paper, a credit risk stress testing model based on the factor-augmented vector autoregressive (FAVAR) approach is proposed to project credit risk loss under stressed scenarios.
Why a European bad bank may not be the right answer
Types of loans most likely to become distressed due to coronavirus don’t suit EU-wide solution
Regulatory lenience over Covid-19 must be carefully judged
Former ECB supervisory board member says unwinding regulatory relief later will take courage
Local banks’ CDSs chase Italy’s sovereign risk higher
MPS and Banco BPM creditworthiness lags Italy’s
EU banks eye bad loan relief from state guarantees
ECB move should prevent rickety loans counting as NPLs
Spanish, Italian big banks purged bad loans in 2019
Top lenders outclass their host banking systems on NPL ratios
Corporate defaults push Danske Bank’s NPLs up 16%
Single-name exposures caused bulk of Q4 impairments