Thursday, August 23, 2012

Why bad loans may be higher than what banks, RBI claim

......RBI had of late, regulated the process of recognizing NPAs. Instead of doing manually, most banks now identify bad loans through computer generated system. An asset turns into NPA when a loan account stops repaying interest for 90 days. Despite this core banking solution, many industry experts believe, banks still have a room for hiding NPAs. They resort to certain adjustments so that some NPAs do not reflect in their books of accounts especially at the quarter-end. For example, bank managers can coax borrowers to make some payment at the end of every quarter, which will then be reversed the next day............

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