At year-end 1999 the NPLs still accounted for more than 38% of Thailand's total domestic loans outstanding.
In Malaysia, warns Azman, "NPLs could double, but we can cater even for an estimated 15.7%" of all loans going sour.
Many have suggested the high ratio of non-performing loans (NPLs) will continue to rise, eventually reaching unsustainable levels given government-forced lending.
By some estimates, NPLs are around 4%, rising from around 2% historically.
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Non-performing loans (NPLs) are 15.5 percent of gross loans, which is comparable to Italy (13 percent), Ireland (19 percent), and even Greece (21 percent).
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NPLs account for an enormous 264 percent of tier 1 capital a level so high that not even basket case Greece, at 217 percent, can compare.
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Moreover, the central government has fibbed about NPLs in the past, especially during the last banking crisis, which occurred at the end of the 1990s.
In the commercial segment, NPLs 15-90 days also improved to 2.1%, from 2.3%, while it has fluctuated around this level over the last 6 months.
It pays 75% of the value of NPLs on which interest is overdue for three to 12 months, and 20% of loans in arrears for over a year.
"We'll sort NPLs into viable and not viable, " says Thaksin.
NPLs, the offloading banks get zero-coupon bonds issued by Danaharta.
NPLs represent a misallocation of resources on a giant scale.
Mirae added their name to the soft landing crowd on Tuesday, saying that issues raised recently about nonperforming loans (NPLs) have raised concerns over the possibility of a sharp slowdown in growth and negative real interest rates.
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