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Huarong eyes US$8b bad debt sale
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China Huarong Asset Management, one of the country鈥檚 four largest buyers and sellers of soured loans, yesterday offered nearly US$8 billion in bad debt to investors, its largest such sale since 2010.
As China鈥檚 economy registers its slowest growth in a quarter century, non-performing loans among the country鈥檚 commercial banks may rise to 2 percent of outstanding loans next year according to a report by a Bank of China institute, from 1.59 percent as of end-September, as borrowers struggle to repay their debt.
Huarong said in a statement that it was launching the sale of 51.5 billion yuan (US$8 billion) of non-performing loans yesterday, together with Taobao, an online platform owned by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group.
Officials at both Taobao and Alibaba were not immediately available for comment.
According to the Huarong statement, the loans are distributed across 24 provinces and cities, with more than half originating from Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong.
China鈥檚 manufacturing sector is heavily concentrated in Zhejiang and Jiangsu, and the country鈥檚 largest banks have reported seeing higher levels of soured debt from these areas.
Debtors are diverse, the statement said, including firms from the wholesale, retail, textile, pharmaceutical, chemical and machinery sectors.
The total value of collateral is 50 billion yuan, covering 97 percent of the bad debt, Huarong said.
The assets will be available for sale for 90 days on an online Taobao platform, and those that attract high demand will be sold in an open auction process.
In November, China鈥檚 commercial banks posted an average non-performing loan ratio of 1.59 percent at the end of September, the highest since the 2009 global financial crisis.
As the market for soured debt grows, a range of players are buying up the loans, including local asset managers, trust companies, foreign investors and even ex-regulators.
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