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《Money Machine》
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作者: Shan Weijian
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出版: Wiley
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出版时间: 2023-02-07
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In 2008, the banking regulator issued a new rule requiring banks to gradually increase their NPL coverage ratios (i.e., the ratio of the money set aside for the NPLs to the amount of NPLs) to be no less than 150%. If a bank had 100 yuan of bad loans, it had to set aside 150 yuan or more for it. Consequently, it would be much more costly to keep an NPL than to write it off.
I had asked the banking regulator Liu Mingkang why he imposed tough NPL coverage ratios. He said he did not trust the NPL levels reported by Chinese banks and believed that a large amount of loans clas- sified as “special mention”would eventually migrate into “substandard” or NPLs. A tougher policy would force banks to write off NPLs to maintain a clean balance sheet, which would in turn make the banking system healthier. That, I thought, was the best policy move on the part of the banking regulator to squeeze NPLs out of banks.
I had asked the banking regulator Liu Mingkang why he imposed tough NPL coverage ratios. He said he did not trust the NPL levels reported by Chinese banks and believed that a large amount of loans clas- sified as “special mention”would eventually migrate into “substandard” or NPLs. A tougher policy would force banks to write off NPLs to maintain a clean balance sheet, which would in turn make the banking system healthier. That, I thought, was the best policy move on the part of the banking regulator to squeeze NPLs out of banks.
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