CEMAC Banks Cut Bad-Loan Ratio to 15.4%, Down Two Points in a Year

CEMAC Banks Cut Bad-Loan Ratio to 15.4%, Down Two Points in a Year The share of troubled loans on CEMAC banks’ balance sheets fell by two percentage points in the year to June 2026, an improvement in credit portfolio quality after more than a decade of strong growth in problem loans across the region. The non-performing loan ratio at banks in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Chad and the Central African Republic declined to 15.4% of gross loans at end-June 2026, from 17.4% a year earlier, according to the monetary policy report published by the Bank of Central African States…