Credit Risk Management

Performance of Credit Risk Management in Indian Commercial Banks

For banks and financial institutions, credit risk had been an essential factor that needed to be managed well. Credit risk was the possibility that a borrower of counter party would fail to meet its obligations in accordance with agreed terms. Credit risk; therefore arise from the bank’s dealings with or lending to corporate, individuals, and other banks or financial institutions.  Credit risk...

Credit Derivatives and Risk Management

E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Fourth Quarter 2007 The growth of credit derivatives suggests that market participants find them useful for risk management. Figure 1 shows the growth trajectory for credit derivatives from two surveys of derivatives dealers: the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Market Survey, which goes back to 2001, and the Bank for International Settlements (...

European Microfinance Credit Risk Management and Credit Scoring

In this paper we provide an analysis of credit risk management and the use of credit scoring among European MFIs. With this aim, we designed and sent a survey to the full set of known MFIs operating in Eastern and Western Europe. 58 MFIs completed the survey. We observe that the European microfinance industry has already dedicated substantial effort to risk management, noting that more than hal...

Best Practices in Credit Risk Management

Hidden Risks in Credit Risk Management

Consider a portfolio of n obligors such as loans, corporate bonds and other instruments subject to possible default. Tang and Yuan (2012, Submitted) introduced a new model for the loss given default and studied its tail behavior, Value at Risk, and Conditional Tail Expectation under the assumption that the losses jointly follow a multivariate regularly varying distribution. However, in the case...