Module4: Credit Risk Assessment
The science of Risk management has been developing and evolving continuously. Various other financial instruments such as interbank transaction, trade financing, foregin exchange transactions, financial futures, optins, swaps, bonds can also have credit risk. Credit Risk modelling. Credit Exposure is the amount of risk during the life of a financial instrument. Upon default it is called exposure at default. In the event of default how large would be the expected outstanding obligations. When banks assign PD to a borrower they are predicting the likelihood of default over a time period horizon. LGD(Loss Given default)- is the share of the asset which is lost when a borowwer defaults. Credit Risk Drivers: Deterioration in credit quality of a obligor may take place over a period of time owing to poor management, changes in the financials of unit, adverse changes in business cycles such as inflation, recession and competition. The ...