Japan bad-loan costs drop as bankruptcy at 25-year low
Tokyo
THE cost for Japan's biggest banks to deal with soured loans all but disappeared in the first half as bankruptcies plunged.
Mizuho Financial Group Inc's lending arms had credit costs of just 400 million yen (S$4.6 million) in the first half, down from 539.3 billion yen in the year ended March 2009 during the global financial crisis. Bad debt ratios at the main banking units of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial G…
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