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1. The Second Forum for Asian Insolvency Reform (FAIR)
Bangkok, Thailand
16-17 December 2002 AMCs and NPL activity in China
2. Restructuring the Chinese banks: NPLs and AMCs
3. Background Big four commercial banks
Bank of China
Agricultural Bank of China
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
China Construction Bank
Spun-off from PBOC in 1980s
Owned by Ministry Of Finance
Policy Banks
E.g., China Development Bank
Others
Second Tier Institutions; Rural Cooperatives
4. Background (cont’d) Problems faced by “Big 4” Commercial Banks
Overstaffed
Undercapitalised
Historically, no competition to drive best practices
Lending at direction of state based on political/social considerations
“Success” measured, in part, by loan volumes
5. Estimated NPLs in China
6. The restructuring
7. The AMCs
9. Barriers to recoveries Estimates of overall recoveries vary
Consensus is less than 20% of face
Barriers to recovery include
Inherent weaknesses in the loan portfolio, in part due to:
Age of loans transferred to AMCs
Mandated by Government
Inadequate legal framework
E.g., Bankruptcy Law provisions
Resistance to reform
Debtor expectations
Local politics
Foreign investor publicity
10. AMC reported recoveries Ministry of Finance target of 30% cash recovery rate
Cumulative reported cash recovery rate is 21.6%
Small proportion of loans “dealt with”
Early recoveries relatively high – “low hanging fruit?”
Situation unlikely to improve over time
12. Issues for foreign investor participation Remittance
Information
Expectation gap
Pricing
Language
Everything is in Chinese !