The quality of assets in the banking sector deteriorated in the first half of 2015, compared with the position at the end of December 2014. The ratio of non-performing loans (NPLs) to Gross Loans increased by 1.77 percentage points to 4.65 percent at end-June 2015.
The fall in asset quality could be
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