In each case, hefty provisioning for non-performing loans was largely the reason for the grim numbers.
Some estimates put Korean banks' non-performing loans as high as a staggering 12.7% of GDP.
Jin Man also vows to keep Hanvit's non-performing loans at under 2% of total lending.
You say that it covers only a fraction of the banking industry's total non-performing loans.
Merrill Lynch bought a package of several hundred non-performing loans and the property that backed them.
The banking system is crippled by non-performing loans, which now equal more than 20% of the total.
It cut its non-performing loans to 2.9% of assets in March, down from 8.1% two years earlier.
His government has ordered Bank Negara to redefine non-performing loans to get many of them off the books.
Gross non-performing loans have fallen from about a fifth of the total in 1995 to under 3% today.
What is more, Aozora itself probably has many non-performing loans on its books.
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The spending spree of the last two years at the municipal level will see an increase in non-performing loans.
Meanwhile, the national asset-management company, Danaharta, has done a good job helping to clean up the banks' non-performing loans.
Our view is that non-performing loans at the big four Chinese banks will rise, but ICBC is well capitalized.
Much of the banks' real-estate portfolios and their non-performing loans secured against property have been sold off at distressed prices.
This means that non-performing loans to real estate developers and near bankrupt corporations are financed directly by depositors and taxpayers.
Its level of non-performing loans is low, but is flattered by Santander's purchase of property financed by its own loans.
In Spain the poorly diversified savings banks are warning that non-performing loans could rise sixfold from their levels in mid-2007.
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The banks, for their part, had to deal with a raft of non-performing loans, which required big clean-ups and recapitalisations.
The banks, which are sick and tired of seeing non-performing loans eat into their profits, are loth to lend more.
It is not clear why these entities should be any more successful than the banks at turning round non-performing loans.
As the Malaysian economy slows and thousands of jobs are lost, financial companies and banks are seeing their non-performing loans soar.
Short on commercial skill and often subject to government meddling, many banks have collapsed and others have dangerously accumulated non-performing loans.
Many have suggested the high ratio of non-performing loans (NPLs) will continue to rise, eventually reaching unsustainable levels given government-forced lending.
Non-performing loans account for less than 1% of the total lending portfolio.
As in other countries, Spanish banks are tightening conditions on mortgages as the number of non-performing loans rises, pricing out potential buyers.
Earnings are being flattered by falling non-performing loans: in credit cards, early delinquencies are the lowest for a decade, according to Nomura.
Thus far non-performing loans are low so low it suggests banks are fibbing.
So banks' non-performing loans rise inexorably and governments take over more financial institutions, using up even more liquidity to keep them alive.
KAMCO's right to use fresh public funds to buy non-performing loans ran out last November, and its public remit expires in 2005.
Falling house prices lead to an increase in banks' non-performing loans, and as their collateral shrinks, so does their capacity to lend.
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