Defaults to depository institutions at the end of the 4th quarter of fiscal year 2006
The FME has processed figures showing defaults by borrowers of depository institutions at the end of the 4th quarter of fiscal year 2006 and comparable figures for the preceding quarters. In this analysis, default is defined as having amortisation and interest payments in arrears for more than one month. The default figures are total figures, i.e. stock of specific provisions has not been subtracted. This analysis presents the development of these default rates from year-end 2000. The data compiled does not include the subsidiaries of the banks.
The figures show that the ratio of aggregate defaults to loans (default ratio) has decreased by just over 0.1% from slightly less than 0.7% at the end of 3rd quarter 2006 to just over 0.5% at the end of the 4th quarter 2006. The ratio was 0.6% at the end of 4th quarter 2005. The default ratio at the end of 4th quarter 2006 is the lowest during last 6 years period. Furthermore, the table presents adjusted default ratios with both one-year and two-year lags, indicating the effects large increases in loans have on these ratios in the succeeding three and four years. Defaults, using these time-lagged measurements, are 0.8% and 1.3% of loans, which are considerably lower than comparable figures for the preceding years. Please note that recent increases in loans may result in increased defaults later. Furthermore attention is drawn to the fact that the depositary institutions' participation in the Icelandic housing market starting in the second half of the year 2004 may have influenced the development of defaults shown in the figures.
The default ratio for industries has decreased by just over 0.1% from 0.6% at the end of the 3rd quarter 2006 to slightly less than 0.5% at the end of the 4th quarter of 2006. The ratio was 0.5% at the end of 4th quarter 2005. Default ratios for industries using one-year and two-year lags are 0.7% and 1.2%, which are lower than comparable figures for the preceding years.
The default ratio for households decreased by slightly less than 0.2%, or from 1.0% at the end of the 3rd quarter of 2006 to 0.8% at the end of the 4th quarter of 2006. The ratio was 1.0% at the end of 4th quarter 2005. Default ratios for households using one-year and two-year lags are 1.1% and 1.8%, which are lower than comparable figures for the preceding years.
Please note that the total figures at the end of the 4th quarter of each fiscal year have been deducted by loans that have conclusively been written off which influences the comparison with the preceding quarters.
Defaults to depository institutions - statistical material.