The total outstanding loans of domestic banks stood at NT$27,520.0 billion as of the end of April 2018, up by NT$71.2 billion from the previous month while their total NPLs were NT$77.3 billion, up by NT$1.9 billion from the previous month’s figure of NT$75.4 billion, generating an average NPL ratio of 0.28%, up by 0.01 percentage points from 0.27%, at the end of March 2018. The NPL coverage ratio of domestic banks stood at 480.89% at the end of April 2018, down by 11.52 percentage points from the figure of 492.41％ at the end of the previous month.