nonperforming

American  

[non-per-fawr-ming] / ˌnɒn pərˈfɔr mɪŋ /

adjective

1. not performing well or properly.

2. Banking. noting or pertaining to a debt on which interest payments have been missed or slow, or for which the interest rate has been voluntarily lowered.

   the rise in nonperforming loans.

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Etymology

Origin of nonperforming

non- + perfoming ( def. )

Example Sentences

The bank has reserved $45 million for loan losses and has $8.3 million of nonperforming loans.

From Barron's

We have rules about reserve coverage at Delphi, and M&T was under-reserved for bad loans about two years ago, but it has built up reserves in recent years, and now has 1.43 times reserves to nonperforming assets.

From Barron's

Like other troubled Iranian banks, Ayandeh had a large number of nonperforming loans, one of a range of factors that eventually drove it to failure.

From The Wall Street Journal

Credit costs likely declined last year, given the banks’ proactive loan restructuring, nonperforming loan management and conservative loan expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bad credits pushed KKR’s nonperforming loan ratio to around 5% in September from 3.5% in January, according to research by Raymond James.

From The Wall Street Journal