New Corona Impact "Costs for loan loss doubled" Resona HD May 12 22:32
Financial giant Norisona Holdings continues to support the financing of companies affected by the new coronavirus, but some companies are inevitably suffering from poor business performance, and costs to prepare for loan losses doubled this year. Clarified the prospect of swelling.
On the 12th, Resona Holdings announced its financial results for the year ending March 31, and President Masahiro Minami held a press conference.
President Minami has been increasing the number of applications for loans centered on small and medium-sized enterprises and sole proprietors whose financing has become difficult due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and the number of loans for the entire group has already reached about 6000, totaling about 500 billion yen. Revealed that I went to.
However, assuming that it will be unavoidable that there will be companies whose business performance will worsen in the future, Resona expects that the cost to prepare for loan losses will increase to about 50 billion yen, which is double this year, until March next year. ..
Mr. Minami said, "It is necessary to protect business and employment now. I want to prepare well for troubles other than financing in the recovery process," he said that he will put effort into helping to stop the decline in sales. It was.
Regarding Resona Holdings, in the fiscal year ended March 31, the final profit was 152.4 billion yen, a decrease of 12.9% from the previous year due to low interest rates and sluggish lending.