THE nonperforming loan ratio of Philippine banks edged up to 3.57 percent in May, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas data showed, rising from April's 3.45 percent and also the highest since June 2022's 3.60 percent.Bad loans rose to P495.67 billion in May, compared to P480.64 billion a month earlier. Year on year, it rose from P436.11 billion.
38 percent of total loans, lower than the previous month's 4.43 percent.Year on year, past-due loans were 4.17 percent of the total at P525.51 billion.Restructured loans, meanwhile, rose to P295.89 billion in May from P290.37 billion in the previous month. This brought it to 2.13 percent of banks' gross loan portfolio.A year earlier, restructured loans were higher at P310.29 billion, or 2.46 percent.Lenders' loan loss reserves edged up to P474.88 billion, equivalent to 3.
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