Defaults on credit card loans are rapidly increasing in the United States.
Financial institutions are currently seeing credit card defaults reach a 14-year high. report Financial Times.
Bad credit has forced lenders to write off a massive $46 billion in loans that are believed to be seriously delinquent in the first nine months of 2024.
This number represents a 50% year-over-year increase, based on data compiled from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and U.S. banking industry information platform BankRegData.
According to Capital One customers face the highest credit card delinquencies, with total delinquencies of $7.68 billion, or 5.36% of credit card loans, according to BankRegData.
Next, Citibank has delinquent amounts of $4.79 billion (2.93%), Synchrony Bank has $4.5 billion (5.02%), JPMorgan Chase has $4.1 billion (2.16%), and Discover Bank has $3.9 billion. (3.93%), followed by Bank of America at $2.56. billion (2.54%).
The surge in defaults on credit card loans shows that consumer finance is under strain after years of high inflation and subsequent rises in interest rates.
Mark Zandi, head of Moody's Analytics, told the FT that consumer purchasing power has clearly declined in most households.
“High-income households are doing okay, but the bottom third of American consumers are being exploited. Their current savings rate is zero.”
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