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Where allowance coverage of nonperforming loans is thinning

Institutions whose loss allowance is small relative to the nonperforming-loan balance they are carrying. Low coverage means future write-downs will erode capital directly rather than being absorbed by the allowance buffer.

Q1 202650 institutions (archived snapshot)
50 institutions reported delinquent loans with minimal loan-loss reserves in Q1 2026. The top three under-reserved lenders were RED RIVER in OK, BAY in CA, and HERITAGE in IN, each with coverage ratios at 0.0%.
Under-Reserved Lenders
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RankInstitutionSourceStateAllowance CoverageQoQTrend
1RED RIVERCUOK0.0% 0.0
2BAYCUCA0.0% 0.0
3HERITAGECUIN0.0% 0.0
4ASSOCIATED CREDIT UNIONCUGA0.0% 0.0
5IQCUWA0.0% 0.0
6MICHIGAN FIRSTCUMI0.0% 0.0
7EXTRACUMI0.0% 0.0
8CREDIT UNION ONECUMI0.0% 0.0
9MAINE STATECUME0.0% 0.0
10IAACUIL0.0% 0.0
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RankInstitutionSourceStateAllowance CoverageQoQTrend
11CREDIT UNION WESTCUAZ████████████
12HERITAGE COMMUNITYCUCA████████████
13UNITED CONSUMERSCUMO████████████
14CAMPUS USACUFL████████████
15PACIFIC SERVICECUCA████████████
16FAIRWINDSCUFL████████████
17SOUTHLANDCUCA████████████
18MERIWESTCUCA████████████
19BANK OF EAST ASIA LTDBANKNY████████████
20CENTURYCUOH████████████
21ADVIACUMI████████████
22VIBECUMI████████████
23WE FLORIDA FINANCIALCUFL████████████
24TEXOMA COMMUNITYCUTX████████████
25SAFE 1CUCA████████████
26LIBERTYONECUTX████████████
27KEMBA FINANCIALCUOH████████████
28BANK OF EAST ASIA LTDBANKNY████████████
29IH CREDIT UNION, INC.CUOH████████████
30MERCED SCHOOL EMPLOYEESCUCA████████████
31CHOICE ONE COMMUNITYCUPA████████████
32HERITAGE FINANCIALCUNY████████████
33LAFAYETTECUMD████████████
34CHIEF FINANCIALCUMI████████████
35DAKOTALANDCUSD████████████
36ABOUNDCUKY████████████
37CHESSIECUMD████████████
38EMPOWERCUNY████████████
39PENINSULACUMI████████████
40TRUE NORTHCUAK████████████
41LEVOCUSD████████████
42CORNINGCUNY████████████
43GREATER ALLIANCECUNJ████████████
44PASADENACUCA████████████
45VACATIONLANDCUOH████████████
46GULF COASTCUTX████████████
47ENERGY ONECUOK████████████
48HAWAIIAN FINANCIALCUHI████████████
49DIRECTCUMA████████████
50ADVANCIALCUTX████████████

Methodology

Allowance coverage of nonperforming loans is the ratio of an institution's loss allowance (Allowance for Credit Losses / ALLL) to its nonperforming-loan balance. A coverage ratio below 100% means the existing reserve cannot fully absorb the currently-identified problem loans — further deterioration will flow directly through earnings and capital. This card ranks institutions across both banks and credit unions in ascending order of allowance_coverage_of_nonperforming, surfacing the top 50 whose coverage ratio is at or below 50% (the 0.5 threshold, thresholds.maxCoverage = 0.5) and whose nonperforming-loan balance meets or exceeds the $1,000,000 nonperforming-volume floor (1000000, thresholds.minNplVolume) to filter out trivial portfolios where small-dollar denominators produce noisy ratios. For banks (FDIC-insured): allowance — FFIEC Call Report Schedule RC-R Part II item 6, Allowance for credit losses (RCFD3123 / RCON3123); nonperforming volume — Schedule RC-N line 9, 90+ days past due col B (RCFD1407 / RCON1407) plus nonaccrual col C (RCFD1403 / RCON1403). For credit unions: allowance for loan losses — NCUA ACCT_719; 60+ days delinquent — NCUA ACCT_041B. Cross-type comparability: bank "non-current" (90+ past due or nonaccrual) and CU "60+ delinquent" are LCD approximations, not equivalents. Methodology updated 2026-03-31: bank nonperforming-volume denominator now sources directly from FFIEC Call Report Schedule RC-N. Prior quarters used a BankFind ratio-derived approximation. Read the methodology update note at /blog/npl-explorer-fdic-cdr-direct-sourcing.

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