{"id":132009,"date":"2025-10-19T12:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132009\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:52:14","slug":"fitch-ratings-warns-thai-banks-bad-loans-to-rise-to-3-7-in-2025-amid-weak-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/132009\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitch Ratings warns Thai banks\u2019 bad loans to rise to 3.7% in 2025 amid weak economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\">Fitch Ratings has warned that the asset quality of Thai banks remains \u201cfragile,\u201d projecting a slight rise in non-performing loans (NPLs) this year as the economy continues to struggle. The agency expects the impaired-loan ratio to increase from 3.4% in 2024 to 3.7% in 2025, remaining at that level in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The ratings firm said the main pressure is concentrated among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), whose impaired-loan ratio stood at 7.9% in the first half of 2025, up from 7.2% at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Fitch also noted that Thailand\u2019s economic growth remains subdued, forecasting GDP growth of 2.2% in 2025 and 1.9% in 2026, compared with 2.5% in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fitch Ratings has warned that the asset quality of Thai banks remains \u201cfragile,\u201d projecting a slight rise in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[8139,9,79,179,18,46373,55536,19,17,52903,79182],"class_list":{"0":"post-132009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-banking","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fitch","14":"tag-fitch-rating","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-npls","18":"tag-thai-banks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}