Lending

Lending Continuous Assessment Question Lending ¡§Given the current economic downturn in the Irish Economy, it is inevitable that the book quality will be affected in the case of most Financial Institutions in the country.¡¨ What measures should lenders take to protect themselves from loan losses, under these circumstances' Table of Contents: Executive Summary Page 4 PART I ¡V Protection Measures Page 5-15 Introduction Page 5 Section I ¡V Credit Policy Page 6 Section 2 ¡V Credit Grading & Control Page 8 Section 3 ¡V Credit Review Page 12 Section 4 ¡V Training & Development of Staff Page 13 PART II ¡V Social responsibility to Customers Page 14 Bibliography Page 16 Executive Summary The Lending banker¡¦s has a broad range of measures to adopt when protecting the bank from loan losses. This paper review these measures in Part I in terms of a ¡¥balanced scorecard¡¦ approach, focusing in turn on Credit Policy, Credit Grading & Control as well as training and development of staff. In Part I of this paper, I will argue that each of these aspects need to be addressed in order to mitigate the exposure of the bank to loan losses. Each section examines the specific measures that a bank may take and outlines the critical factors when contemplating such measures. The role of Credit Policy, will highlight a number credit, loan, bank, financial, lender, policy, customer, lending, losses, measures, management, business, must, #8211, banks, terms, review, loss, level, risk, general, should, section, part, bank#8217s, example, book, training, staff, market, both, role, responsibility, position, institutions