Translation of "Notleidende kredite" in English

Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) are a legacy of the last financial crisis in Europe.

Non-performing loans: is there any flexibility in EU rules?

Bad loans have been brought down to roughly 2 per cent of the total portfolio.

Banks remain burdened with bad loans, which weaken their financial position.

Banks remain burdened with bad loans weakening their financial position.

Provisioning against bad loans to be made tax deductible.

European Central Bank monitors non-performing loans in the Eurozone.

Non-performing loans have declined markedly, but remain relatively high in a few financial institutions.

As part of a government programme, distressed loans will be refinanced and backed by state guarantees.

On top of this, the banking system is heavily burdened by non-performing loans.

The Committee feels that certain new markets, including for non-performing loans, should be explored further.

Banks have built up some bad loans as a result which have not been cancelled because of the links through the investment funds.

In addition to that, this company raises capital for companies and buys distressed debts and assets.

Additionally, Vietnam's banking sector is undercapitalized, while non-performing loans weigh heavily on banks and businesses.

Non-performing loans accumulated in the banking system have been taken over using public money.

Will 2018 be the year in which non-performing loans finally become recognised as a legitimate investment opportunity?

Probably of even more serious concern is the huge exposure of several euro zone countries to defaulting debts of Eastern Europe.

In the financial sector , there has been a moderate deterioration in capital adequacy as non-performing loans have increased in line with expectations .

Higher capital ratios, lower exposure to bad loans, and more transparent balance sheets increase the chances that the ECB’s quantitative impulses will be transmitted to the wider economy.

This then leads to more bad assets and non-performing loans, more excessive investment in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity, and more public and private debt.

With the government lacking fiscal room, and Greek banks burdened by non-performing loans, it is important to mobilize the state’s remaining assets and unclog the flow of bank credit to healthy parts of the private sector.

In Greece, bad loans issued by French and German banks were moved onto the public books, transferring the exposure not only to European taxpayers, but to the entire membership of the IMF.

The new government thus may need to identify cases where NPLs hinder banks’ normal functioning, sell this debt, and prop up the capital of the affected banks.

And a deposit-guarantee program for banks is seen as a way to force prudent German depositors to pay for non-performing loans in Italy.

New loans should be secured only after Greece’s debt had been rendered viable, and no new public funds should be injected into the commercial banks unless and until a special-purpose institution – a “bad bank” – was established to deal with their NPLs.