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2017 now constituting 9 percent of financial sector assets. Savings and credit cooperatives and
credit unions represent about 6.5 percent of the financial sector assets.
5. The commercial banking sector appears to be sound and stable with a diversified
lending profile and a steady source of funding. As of end-2017, the loan portfolio of the
commercial banking sector was diversified and distributed among the following sectors: financial
and insurance (23 percent); mortgages, real estate, and construction (20 percent); manufacturing
(15 percent); consumer finance (14 percent); wholesale and retail trade (13 percent); and others
(15 percent). To support banking
sector activities, commercial banks have been
traditionally funded
by customer deposits, which represented more than 70 percent of total funding in December 2017.
At
the same time, banks have been consistently well capitalized, with an aggregate capital adequacy
ratio above 15 percent over the last decade and reaching a peak of 18.5 percent in Q3 2017, well
above the regulatory requirement of 8.5 percent, and with no banks below 15.5 percent. Commercial
banks' NPLs are also low at 3 percent (down from a peak of 8 percent in 2007) but have ticked up
from 2.15 percent in 2014 primarily due to loans to the mining sector as well as
wholesale and retail
trade.
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