The nonperforming loan ratios of a large majority of banks in Europe's periphery, including Italy, Greece, Portugal and Ireland, declined in the second quarter of 2017 from the end of 2016, according to the European Banking Authority's latest transparency exercise.
In Greece, however, only Eurobank Ergasias SA saw its NPL ratio decline over the period, with those of peers Alpha Bank AE, Pireaus Bank SA and National Bank of Greece SA increasing respectively by 34 basis points to 51.42%, 162 basis points to 53.38% and 100 basis points to 37.55%.
Click for data on NPLs in the eurozone core, and capital in the core and periphery.

Click here to view capital ratios, asset quality, leverage and profitability across 132 European banks that participated in the EBA 2017 transparency exercise. |

