EOS debt collector: How could those unable to pay instalments repay an entire loan now?
Autor:
Izabela Badarau
23.03.2010
Non-performing loans are increasingly difficult to recover by
specialised companies, so they are no longer willing to pay to
banks more than 8% of the nominal value of receivables they
purchase. "If we are talking about non-secured retail loans, worth
up to 30,000-40,000 RON, fees amounted to 20-25% of the receivable.
Now fees amount to a maximum of 5-8%. The main reason for this is
the very low success rate. If the client was no longer able to pay
their instalments, how could they now repay a full loan? And if we
foreclose on them, what do we do with the home?," says Georg
Kovacs, general manager of EOS KSI, leader of the Romanian debt
collection market. The company purchased 170 million euros in
receivables from banks last year. Towards the end of the year banks
cleaned their portfolios of non-performing loans, which they
covered 100% through provisions in order to improve their financial
indicators, and rushed to debt collectors.
Kovacs says, however, that for them it is not easy at all to turn the assets they purchased to account. Individuals' repayment ability significantly worsened. "Whilst last year a person was able to pay 650 RON per month on average, now they pay 400 RON per month at the most."