Analysis of implementation of the National Bank’s approaches to assessing the financial condition of the debtor – a legal entity and the condition of loan portfolio of domestic banks

Abstract

The article analyzes the current state of the credit portfolio of domestic banks in the context of introduction of new approaches of the National Bank to assess the financial status of the debtor – a legal entity. Ukraine implements the recommendations of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on Credit Risk Assessment, which recommends banks to develop their own internal models in order to properly assess their clients. However, the National Bank of Ukraine has chosen another concept for the settlement of this recommendation, in particular, it developed and obliged all domestic banks to use their own methodology for assessing the level of credit risk based on a specific econometric model. Even before the full implementation of the methodology of the National Bank in practice of domestic banks, it was critically evaluated by domestic scientists with the details of deficiencies. The conducted study allowed to analyze the relationship between the introduction of the new NBU methodology for assessing the level of credit risk on corporate loans and changes in the share of non-performing loans in loan portfolios of Ukrainian banks. The obtained results confirmed the low effectiveness of the NBU methodology for identifying insolvent borrowers, as in the background of the growth of lending to legal entities in 2018, the share of non-performing loans was almost unchanged, or insignificantly, indicating that the newly issued loans subsequently went to the category of unemployed. The study summarizes the shortcomings of the current methodology and proposes to differentiate the approaches of banks to assessing the level of credit risk, namely, to allow banks with a long-term functioning in the market to develop and approve in the NBU their own methods for assessing the level of credit risk of the borrower, and for newly created banks – to use the methodology of the NBU until the moment of accumulation of the necessary experience to develop their own methodology.