Strategy of the bank for reducing non-performing loans

Abstract

The article examines the theoretical, normative, and methodical aspects of the formation of banks' strategies for reducing non-performing loans, systematizes, supplements, and details the system of factors that cause non-performing loans in domestic banks. The purpose of the study is to systematize and detail the list of possible factors for the emergence of problem loans and to develop an appropriate strategy for reducing non-performing loans in domestic banks. The systematization of literary sources and approaches to solving this problem indicates the absence among scientists and experts in the banking sphere of a generally accepted system of factors for the emergence of non-performing loans in banks, which would take into account the different nature and subjects of their influence at the micro and macro levels. In addition, the study showed the need for the formation or revision of existing strategies for reducing non-performing loans, which will enable banks to be operationally ready for the settlement of particularly large volumes of non-performing loans in current realities. The urgency of solving this scientific problem lies in the fact that in the current conditions of a significant increase in the volume of non-performing loans, improving the quality of bank loan portfolios and ensuring the financial stability of the banking system as a whole is impossible without the development of a comprehensive strategy for reducing non-performing loans. The study of the problem covered in the article is carried out in the following logical sequence: identification of the factors of the occurrence of non-performing loans in banks at the micro- and macro-levels, their systematization, addition and detailing by the nature and participants of credit relations that caused their occurrence; development of the bank's strategy for reducing non-performing loans, which includes the main stages of a comprehensive action plan and appropriate measures for the settlement of problem credit debt at each of these stages. The methodological toolkit of the research was a complex of complementary methods: analysis and synthesis, cause and effect analysis – for systematization, detailing and addition to the list of internal and external factors of the occurrence of non-performing loans in banks, system-analytical, logical generalization – for the development of a strategy for reducing non-performing loans in domestic banks, etc. The object of the research is portfolios of non-performing loans of domestic banks, as well as a set of factors of their occurrence and measures to reduce them. The article presents the results of a cause-and-effect analysis, which made it possible to systematize, detail, and supplement the list of internal and external factors of the occurrence of non-performing loans in banks. The results of the system analysis and logical generalization are presented, which serve as the basis for the formation of a strategy for reducing non-performing loans in banks. The results of the research can be useful for Ukrainian banks, allowing them to minimize credit risks in the future.