Italy: Financial Sector Assessment Program-Technical Note-Tackling Non-Performing Assets

International Monetary Fund

No 2020/234, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: Banks’ asset quality has substantially improved in recent years but remains well below European peers. Non-performing loans (NPLs) fell from 16½ percent in 2015 to about 8.1 percent at end-June 2019, achieved mainly through €145 billion of private NPL sales. This is a substantial reduction by any standard, though NPLs remain well above the 3.0 percent average of the main European Union (EU) banks as of June 2019. New NPL formation has fallen to pre-crisis levels. Provisioning coverage was 52.5 percent as of June 2019, placing Italy 7.6 percentage points above the average of the main EU banks.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; D. enterprise insolvency; enterprise court; debtor company; unviable firm; enterprise matter; UTP portfolio; directors of the sign; enterprise activity; distressed enterprise; market value; enterprises to the court; bank supervisor; Nonperforming loans; Solvency; Distressed assets; Loans; Collateral; Europe; Global; Corporate insolvency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35
Date: 2020-08-04
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