Analysts say relaxing debt recovery laws, and making it easier for defaulters to escape notice, may push up Sri Lanka’s national non-performing loan ratio which is over 11 percent at the moment.
The Credit Information Bureau itself was set up after a large number of finance companies collapsed in the nineteen eighties.
The amendments would allow the CRIB to track subscribers of utilities such as telephone operators.
The changes to the law governing the CRIB have been suddenly suspended allegedly due to pressure from defaulters, who have strong political connections.
The Sri Lanka Bankers’ Association is now asking the authorities to proceed with the proposed changes.
A complaint has been made to the highest levels of the government that ˜because of this something called crib, we can’t take any loans’, says Upali de Silva, Secretary General of the Sri Lanka Banks’ Association.
So, without any further inquiry, instructions have been issued to put o