The ECB, acting as the single supervisor within the banking union, has stepped up its efforts to supervise credit risk, in particular non-performing loans (NPLs) issued before 2018, but it needs to “better ensure sound coverage and management of risks by banks”, the European Court of Auditors said in a report published on Friday 12 May.
Having analysed a sample of 10 banks with high exposure to NPLs in the 2021 banking supervision cycle, the Court of Auditors notes, for example, that...