NPL Initiative

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Recent activities and upcoming events under the NPL Initiative

• Periodical Vienna Initiative publications: 
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H2 2023
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H1 2023
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H2 2022
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H1 2022
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H2 2021
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H1 2021
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H2 2020
  • CESEE Deleveraging and Credit Monitor
  • Bank Lending Survey for the CESEE region
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H1 2020
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued – H2 2019
  • New Vienna Initiative NPL Monitor issued - H1 2019 (Semi-annual)
  • New CESEE Deleveraging and Credit Monitor published - H1 2019 (Semi-annual)
  • New CESEE Bank Lending Survey released - H1 2019 (Semi-annual)
• Training: EBRD, in partnership with a professional training provider, offered
  • A course in restructuring skills to banking professionals from the CESEE (Athens, 06-10 Nov 2017)
  • A course in restructuring skills to banking professionals from Greece and Cyprus (Athens, 14-18 May 2018)
• Industry Workshops:
  • Bulgaria: Workshop to find practical ways to solve NPLs in Bulgaria, held in Sofia on 20 Sept 2017
  • Hungary: Workshop on implementation of the new MNB out-of-court restructuring guidelines, held in Budapest on 12 Oct 2017
• Conferences:
  • Kiev, Ukraine (25-26 April 2018): Law on Financial Restructuring (Lessons and Experience from the First Year of Operation) and IFI Perspective on Ukraine's progress with NPL resolution framework, insolvency framework and NPL transaction market.
  • Vienna, Austria (15-16 May 2018): World Bank/FinSAC: International Conference on NPL Resolution (Agenda - Presentations - Policy briefs )