How to Use nonperforming in a Sentence

nonperforming

adjective
  • The way India deals with nonperforming loans will be a litmus test of that.
    Anita Raghavan, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • The core of their problem is their mounting pile of bad debts, with their nonperforming loan ratio now over 15%.
    Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • In reality, though banks are recognizing more bad-debt charges, the growth in their nonperforming loans isn’t slowing.
    Anjani Trivedi, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Investors inside and outside the country have long worried that China’s banking system has more nonperforming loans than banks disclose.
    WSJ, 26 June 2019
  • Greek banks’ handling of nonperforming loans is also expected to come under fire as is a restructuring of social benefits.
    Sotiris Nikas, Bloomberg.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • And, of course, the fundamentals of Italy’s economic situation have not changed — a cumulative debt of over 130 percent of gross domestic product, low growth, high unemployment, and banks with mounds of nonperforming loans.
    Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Banks that step up recognition of nonperforming loans may be eligible to put aside less money to cover potential losses—as low as 120% of total bad loans, according to a recent regulatory ruling.
    WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018

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