(alsoformaldelinquent loan)FINANCEaloanwhich isunlikelyto bepaidback:Thechallengeinbailoutprogramsis tohelphomeownersin a way that does notrewardlendersfor makingbadloans.(Definition ofbad loanfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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bad loanMany of the largest banks were hit hard bybadloanportfolios and forced to merge or go out of business.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Questionable lending practices, coupled with difficult business conditions and high interest rates, created hugebadloanportfolios.From theCambridge English CorpusIn addition, inefficient state firms and a banking system mired in bad loans and lost funds to foreign countries.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After the bubble's collapse, the bad loans were judged to be poor value for money.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Again the bank lost a lot of money, made a number of bad loans, and violated laws of money laundering.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the face of bad loans and worsening future prospects, the surviving banks became even more conservative in their lending.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Peoples stock began to fall as serious problems emerged with bad loans, particularly in the faltering real estate sector, but also in the commercial realm.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the aftermath of the crisis when they could not service their debt, banks could neither foreclose nor write off bad loans without themselves collapsing.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the first nine months of 2011 it had lost 1.7bn and the bad loans ratio has reached 20.8 per cent.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Investors of these banks and their clients were hurt by such bad loans, resulting in large settlement payments by the banks.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/bad-loan##
