{
  "id": 17093582,
  "title": "Banks’ bad loan ratio drops to 19-month low",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/banks-bad-loan-ratio-drops-to-19-month-low",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-29T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Philippine Star Business",
    "slug": "philippine-star-business",
    "url": "https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/10/30/2566584/banks-bad-loan-ratio-drops-19-month-low"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The share of bad loans held by Philippine banks fell to a nine-month low in September as continued credit growth enlarged the industry’s loan base, but gross bad loans still increased from a year ago.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}