Richard X. Bove, an analyst with Punk, Ziegel & Co., called the plan «yet another idea to drive funds away from the markets,» adding that «the concept of forcing banks to keep
bad loans on their books violates every precept of regulation in American banking.»
Not exact matches
Elsewhere, the European Central Bank has decided it would not demand Italian lender UniCredit to
book more write - downs
on its
bad loans than those already scheduled, according to Reuters.
An economist at Oxford Economics recently told a Sydney audience that «Chinese authorities were understating the extent of
bad loans on their banks»
books and faced tough choices in dealing with the potential bank failure.»
You can see the size of our
loan book and
bad debt rates
on our statistics page.
The
book reveals how commercial banks that ostensibly lost money
on bad loans to Third World governments in reality lost very little because, since 1982, Northern taxpayers have contributed between $ 44 and $ 50 billion in tax relief
on bank provisions and «losses».
The company has a large amount of
bad loans still
on the
books today, and they are trying to stay solvent by dumping this
bad debt practice.
In 25 years or so a large number of student
loans will be written off which will look
bad on the
books for the government of the day but present day politicians don't care about that.
In addition, the situation in Europe is more fragmented than in the U.S. with European countries applying different mandates
on how they are going to approach their
bad book of
loans, notes Nicoletti.