Swelling of non-performing loans erodes banks' capital base

Banks' capital base has been weakened further by higher growth of non-performing loans (NPLs), officials said Sunday, based on their September situation. The capital-to-risk weighted asset ratio (CRAR) of all the scheduled banks in Bangladesh came down to 11.22 per cent as on September 30, 2021 from 11.64 per cent nine months before, according to the latest statistics of Bangladesh Bank (BB).