Risk Management Association of India
Global body dedicated to education, research and development on Risk Management
The RBI regularly issues directions, circulars, frameworks and regulatory guidance covering the major risks faced by banks and financial institutions. These regulatory documents influence several important areas of banking operations, including: Credit appraisal and monitoring Loan classification and provisioning Capital Read More …
Absa Bank has modernised its credit risk management infrastructure using SAS Viya on Amazon Web Services (AWS), significantly reducing reporting time while strengthening model governance and regulatory compliance. The initiative was announced by SAS on 5 August 2026. (PR Newswire) Read More …
Absa Bank has modernised its credit risk management infrastructure using SAS Viya on Amazon Web Services (AWS), significantly reducing reporting time while strengthening model governance and regulatory compliance. The initiative was announced by SAS on 5 August 2026. (PR Newswire) Read More …
The assessment of credit risk is undergoing a significant transformation as financial institutions increasingly recognise the importance of social and governance factors in predicting borrower default risk. Traditionally, credit assessment models have focused primarily on financial indicators such as income, Read More …
Floods in one state, cyclones battering a coastline, a heatwave disrupting crop yields hundreds of kilometres away, disaster risk in credit appraisal is no longer a theoretical exercise for Indian banks and NBFCs. It is a live underwriting concern that Read More …
For years, climate risk management inside Indian banks and financial institutions revolved around one thing: disclosure. Institutions built ESG reports, published sustainability statements, and mapped their exposure to climate policies largely to satisfy regulators, investors and rating agencies. That phase Read More …
Indian banks are moving away from the incurred loss model and adopting ECL based provisioning, a forward looking approach to recognising credit losses on financial instruments. This shift, anchored in Chapter III of the new provisioning framework, changes not just Read More …
Every monsoon, cyclone season, and heatwave now carries a credit implication. A borrower who was “standard” in March can be under severe financial stress by August, not because their business model failed, but because a flood took out their inventory, Read More …
Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to examine the credit risk management practices of regional financial institutions following the bankruptcy of payment-processing company Zentoshin. Osaka-based Zentoshin reportedly owes ¥115.1 billion to 63 financial institutions, according to credit research firm Tokyo Shoko Read More …
Expected Credit Loss (ECL) frameworks have become a cornerstone of modern banking risk management, especially under IFRS 9 and similar accounting standards. ECL is designed to quantify potential losses on loans and credit exposures before they actually materialize. While much Read More …