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1.1 Introduction
Bank is committed to provide high quality financial services/products to contribute to the
growth of the country through stimulating trade and commerce, accelerating the pace of
industrialization, boosting up export, creating employment opportunity for the youth,
poverty alleviation, raising standard of living of limited income group and overall
sustainable socio-economic development of the country. In achieving the aforesaid
objectives of the Bank, Credit Operation of the Bank is of paramount importance as the
greatest share of total revenue of the Bank is generated from it, maximum risk is centered
in it and even the very existence of Bank depends on prudent management of its credit
portfolio. The failure of a commercial Bank is usually associated with the problem in
credit portfolio and its less often the result of shrinkage in the value of other assets. As
such, credit portfolio not only features dominant in the assets structure of the Bank, it is
crucially importance to the success of the Bank also.
Bank can lend upto 84% of the total amount of its total time and demand liabilities. The
rest 16% is kept as Statutory Liquidity Reserve (SLR) with Bangladesh Bank. But in
practice banks do not lend the whole 84% and a certain portion is set to meet up the day-
to-day banking operations and also meet up the liquidity requirement of the depositors.
Bank can lend upto 15% of its paid up capital without the approval of Bangladesh Bank
but above that level approval from Bangladesh Bank is required.
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Broad Objective
The broad objective of the report is to have an overview on credit approval and
risk management techniques adopted by Bank Asia.
Specific Objectives
To develop knowledge about credit risk management of Bank Asia.
To identify the strengths and weaknesses of the credit approval and monitoring
process in Bank Asia.
To make recommendations regarding the Bank’s credit risk management
activities.
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1.5 Methodology
Data Analysis
This is a descriptive report mainly aiming to depict the credit approval process and
monitoring techniques of Bank Asia. The data gathered from both primary and secondary
sources were arranged orderly to get a clear picture of the Bank Asia’s credit
management policy regarding lending process and monitoring. The study includes both
qualitative and quantitative analysis of loan approval process and monitoring tools. Based
on the observational information writer also tries to evaluate and analyze the problems
involved in various phases of the credit approval process and Risk management
techniques.
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Field practice varies with the standard practice that also created problem.
Time provided for conducting the study is another important constraint.
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