Read the article on TBank below and answers the following question. (The articles are the same for all the questions of this type. If you have read the article from previous questions, you don't have to read it again.)
The extraordinarily strong car sales in 2012 helped grow TBank's auto-loan portfolio by more than 30 per cent, while Tisco Bank enjoyed growth of instalment loans of more than 34 per cent.
Fears have been expressed that the first-car programme could lead to non-performing loans because many buyers under the scheme were new graduates and first-jobbers. However, major players in the auto-loan segment insist there is little chance they will be hit by significant NPLs because of their credit-rating systems.
Some banks that provided few loans to first-car buyers said they had to be more cautious with this segment because after these customers held their new cars for a year and received a tax rebate of up to Bt100,000, they might use the money for other purposes and become unable to make their car-loan payments.
TBank, the leader in the auto-loan market, believes there will be few NPLs resulting from the first-car scheme, said senior vice president Anuchart Deeprasert. His theory is that since many buyers are new graduates and first-jobbers, if they are unable to pay an instalment, their parents will help them.