Bulgarian banks write down 1.8B leva as losses in January-September
Loans written off as losses by Bulgarian banks rose to 1.843 billion leva in the first nine months of this year, central bank figures showed.
The figure includes non-performing loans that have not been serviced in more than 180 days, which accounted for 3.55 per cent of the banking system's portfolio. Third-quarter write-offs stood at 517.8 million leva.
Loans with more than a 30-day delay have surged by 1.41 billion leva to 6.12 billion leva, or 8.53 per cent of the banking system assets.
to guarantee their safety in the case of a further deterioration in asset quality, according to the Bulgarian National Bank.
The capital of Bulgaria’s banking system stood at 9.2 billion leva at the end of September, an increase of 375 million leva for the second quarter. The capital adequacy ration was 17.34 per cent.
Stress tests on Bulgaria’s banking system unveiled in August showed that bad loans could climb to 16.5 per cent of the banking systems loans portfolio. Capital adequacy would fall in the range of 14.5 per cent to 11.6 per cent, comfortably above the EU and US regulatory requirements of eight per cent.
Text source: dnevnik.bg
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