Bad debts just get bigger

Headline: Bad debts just get biggerSource: euromoney.comDate: June 2001Author: Tom Marshall The best guess as to the eventual size of Chinese banks’ bad debts is that they will be many times larger than initial official estimates. In a desperate effort to clean up their balance sheets, banks have shifted bad debts to asset management companies. […]

Headline: Bad debts just get bigger
Source: euromoney.com
Date: June 2001
Author: Tom Marshall

The best guess as to the eventual size of Chinese banks’ bad debts is that they will be many times larger than initial official estimates. In a desperate effort to clean up their balance sheets, banks have shifted bad debts to asset management companies. But there’s no sign that these can offload them to new money investors or engineer decent recovery rates. And there’s plenty more to come.




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