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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Panel Urges Bad-Loan Disclosures: A Finance Ministry study panel says banks should disclose the value of loans extended to firms in financial difficulty, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said. The panel also recommended that the ministry urge larger banks to disclose the volume of loans on which interest payments have been missed for more than six months, the paper said. The Finance Ministry will require banks to disclose the value of non-performing loans from the current financial year through March.
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