Bank of Philippines Sells Bad Loans to Bank of America

Published on:
 22 June 2007 at 08:04 a.m. ET

June 22, 2007, 8:04 a.m. insideARM.com The iA Institute
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Bank of America snapped up $78 million in bad loans from the Bank of the Philippine Islands earlier today, according to a filing made by BPI to the Philippine Stock Exchange.

In a story by Reuters today, it was written that the sale is the fourth such divestiture of bad loans made by BPI with total proceeds from the sale totaling $453.8 million.

The bank said aside from Bank of America, four other foreign institutions submitted bids for the loans.

Philippine banks’ non-performing loans have fallen to 5.27 percent of total loans as of end April from a peak of about 18 percent in 2001, according to Reuters.  The country is trying to get bad debt levels at banks down from those all-time highs that were a result of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s.


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