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Bad debt exceeds 11 billion USD at 29 commercial banks

Among 29 commercial banks, 11 reported a decline in bad debt ratios in the second quarter, including National Citizen Commercial Joint Stock Bank (NBC) from 19.54% to 11.35% and Agribank from 1.68% to 1.43%.

Customers completing a transaction at a Vietcombank branch. (Photo: VNA)
Customers completing a transaction at a Vietcombank branch. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Bad debt at 29 commercial banks stood at 294.4 trillion VND (11.3 billion USD) as of the end of June, representing an increase of more than 13% over the end of 2024, their financial reports show.

Outstanding loans totalled nearly 14.8 quadrillion VND as of June 30.

The rise of non-performing loans forced banks to increase total credit risk provisions by 10% to stand at 86 trillion VND.

Among 29 commercial banks, 11 reported a decline in bad debt ratios in the second quarter, including National Citizen Commercial Joint Stock Bank (NBC) from 19.54% to 11.35% and Agribank from 1.68% to 1.43%. Other banks included An Binh Bank (ABBank), Viet A Bank, Saigon-Hanoi Bank (SHB) and TPBank.

Lenders with increases in bad debt ratios in the second quarter included PGBank, Viet Capital Joint Stock Commercial Bank (BVBank), BIDV, HDBank, Saigonbank and Nam A Bank.

NCB continued to have the highest bad debt ratio in the banking system, but the ratio decreased significantly in the second quarter, highlighting the bank’s efforts to restructure its debts.

As of the end of June, 21 out of 29 banks reported bad debt ratios under 3% – the threshold deemed safe.

Of these, 12 banks reported ratios below 2%, including as Vietcombank (1%), Viet A Bank (1.11%), Bac A Bank (1.25%), Asial Commercial Joint Stock Bank (ACB) (1.28%), VietinBank (1.31%) and Techcombank (1.32%)./.

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