The volume of non-performing loans (NPL) in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) decreased by 3.5% year-on-year in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest report of Vienna Initiative. Thus, overdue bank loans in the region reached EUR 28 billion, according to the report by the organization, which is a project of the...

The credit risk in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) remains under control, but commercial real estate’s loans seem vulnerable, notes the latest report of Vienna Initiative, which overviewed the banking sector and non-performing loans (NPL) in the region in 2023. Generally, the bank’s NPL-level in CESEE stays at a stable plane in the background...

Between 2017 and 2023 most of the Bulgarian banks recorded a decline in non-performing loans (NPL) level, but it remained above the regional average. This notes the latest report of the Vienna Initiative organization, which examines bank assets condition in Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) as of June 2023. The restructuring of corporate portfolios...

Bulgaria has recorded the largest decline in non-performing loans (NPLs) among the counties in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CEE and SEE) in the first half of 2023, according to the latest report, published by Vienna Initiative, a financial stability monitoring and coordination body in the region, set out by the European Bank for Reconstruction...