Non-performing loan management at commercial banks

The gradual increase of non-performing loans (or ?NPL?s) causing fail outs in financial systems of both developing and developed countries directed Banks to focus on the prudent management of their loan portfolios and forecasting the NPL levels. Therefore, the analysis of NPLs has become crucial for Banks.Logit Regression Model is used in this study in order to predict the factors that cause loans to become non-performing. The data used in the study are composed of 2003 financial statements of both successful and problematic companies. In this work, total of forty-seven financial variables of forty-six companies are analyzed and statistically meaning results are obtained.