"Credit Management of United Commercial Bank Limited" Which Is
"Credit Management of United Commercial Bank Limited" Which Is
"Credit Management of United Commercial Bank Limited" Which Is
Introduction:
United Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL) is a Bangladesh based private commercial bank that
provides banking services. The services include corporate and retail banking, loans, and credit
cards, online Banking and money transfer services. The bank operates in Bangladesh, having
its headquarter in Gulshan, Dhaka.
UCBL is a first generation bank and they put their customer first. They are using flex cube
software to provide customer a better service efficiently. UCBL bank tries their best to provide
their customer a better service.
As a fully licensed commercial bank, UCBL is being managed by a highly professional and
dedicated team with long experience in banking. They constantly focus on understanding and
anticipating customer needs. As the banking scenario undergoes changes so is the bank and
it repositions itself in the changed market condition.
UCBL offers all kinds of Commercial Corporate and Personal Banking services covering all
segments of society within the framework of Banking Company Act and rules and regulations
laid down by our central bank. Diversification of products and services include Corporate
Banking, General Banking Retail Banking and Consumer Banking right from industry to
agriculture, and real state to software.
History:
United Commercial Bank (UCB) started its journey in mid 1983 under the company Act 1994,
with a firm commitment of the economic and social development of Bangladesh, and has since
been able to establish itself as one of the largest first generation banks in the country. UCBL
listed in the Dhaka Stock Exchange Limited on 30th November 1986 and Chittagong Stock
Exchange limited on 15th November 1995. With a vast network of 148 branches the Bank has
already made a distinct mark in the realm of Private Sector Banking through personalized
service, innovative practices, dynamic approach and efficient Management industry to
agriculture, and real state to software.
Today, UCBL is one of the countrys leading banks in the private sector and contributing
significantly to the national economy. The authorized capital of the bank today is Tk.15, 000
million, paid up capital tk.8, 366 million.
The Bank has expanded its arena in different and diverse segments of banking like Retail
Banking, SME Banking, Corporate Banking, Off-shore Banking, and Remittance etc. Besides
various deposit and loan products of Retail Banking, the Bank caters export and import loan to
deserving candidates which in turn helps the overall economy of the country through increased
earning of foreign exchange. Other consumer products like UCB Cards have been showing
tremendous success and growth since its inception in 2006 and soon became the leader in
local market with around 40000 card holders.
Mission:
To offer financial solutions that create, manage and increase our clients wealth while improving
the quality of life in communities we serve.
Current Deposit:
It is popularly known as Current Account. Any individual (Businessman) , companies, firm, are
eligible to open this type of account in its own name or companys name. This is noninterest
bearing account. The account holder can deposit or withdraw money from his or her account
any time if he or she wants. The code for CD account is 101. To open current account a
customer needs:
3 copy picture of account holder
1 copy picture of nominee
Account holders voter ID card photocopy, trade license photocopy, companys seal
Nominees voter ID card photocopy
LOAN GENERAL:
Payment against Documents (PAD): Arrangement under which a buyer can get the delivery
(shipping) documents only upon full payment of the invoice or bill of exchange.
Export Cash Credit (ECC): ECC is essentially a short term credit and allowed to supplement
requirement of finance of an exporter to meet genuine costs and expenses related to the
exportable commodity. It is allowed to execute a specific export order or to execute multiple
exports against ECC limit. Maximum ECC limit would be 90% of FOB value of export L/C. For
allowing ECC limit, exporters past 3 years export performance to be considered. For the purpose
of extending ECC, L/C of those importers will not be accepted, whose record of past payments
is not satisfactory i. e. has record of late payment, nonpayment, payment at discount.
Local Documentary Bills Purchased (LDBP): LDBP facility is allowed to negotiate/purchase
Inland/local Documentary bills duly accepted for payment by scheduled Banks in Bangladesh.
FBPD (Foreign Documentary Bills Purchased): FDBP facility is allowed to the customer to
negotiate/purchase foreign documentary export bills drawn under valid Export L/C.
RETAIL LOAN: Retail loans are like car loan, doctors loan, home loan etc.
NON FUNDED:
SLC (LOCAL/FOREIGN): SLC means sight LC. Here after getting shipping documents bank
payment within 5 working days.
ULC (BACK TO BACK): The export letter of credit backs a second letter of credit which is used
to pay a supplier. When the exporter received an export letter of credit from the overseas buyer
for export of goods, but the concerned exporter are not the actual manufacturer/ producer of the
exportable goods. He is required to collect the goods/ raw materials from the actual producer/
manufacturer. In such a situation the exporter request his bank to open a letter of credit in favor
of the actual producer against the export letter of credit he has obtained. In this situation bank
open a letter of credit in favor of the actual producer of the goods keeping the export letter of
credit as security. Since the letter of credit on the strength of and backed by the export letter of,
the second letter of credit called back to back letter of credit. Bank may provide pre-shipment
credit facilities up to 90% of export order including BTB LC. However banks are generally not in
favor of back-to-back letters of credit as a means of financing export transactions due to risk they
are exposed to.
Other Products:
LOCKER SERVICE: UCBL Mirpur Road Branch provides 3 type of locker service like small,
medium and large. Small locker yearly charge fee is Tk.3440, medium locker yearly charge fee
is Tk.4730, and large locker fee is 6500.
CARD FACILITY: UCBL Provides debit card and credit card facility to its Debit card holder is
1,50,000 and among them 70,000 to 80,000 card holders is actively use it. UCBL provides 3
types of credit cards such as platinum, gold and classic. Platinum card is for high value customer
and card limit is Tk.1,50,000 to Tk.5,00,000, yearly charge fee Tk.5,000, and platinum client is
2,000 approximately. Gold card limit is Tk.50, 000 to Tk.1, 45,000, yearly charge fee Tk.3, 000,
and gold client is 25,000 approximately. Classic card limit is Tk. 20,000 to Tk.45, 000, yearly
charge fee 1,500, and classic client is 20,000 approximately.
Background of topic:
Credit management in a bank is a dynamic sector where a certain standard of long-range
planning is needed to allocate the fund in diverse field and to minimize the risk and maximizing
the return on the invested fund. The objective of the credit management is to maximize the
performing asset and the minimization of the non-performing asset as well as ensuring the
optimal point of loan and advance and their efficient management. The credit policy of United
Commercial Bank Limited is a combination of certain accepted, time tested standards and other
dynamic factors dictated by the realities of changing situations in different market places. UCBL
aims to become one of the leading banks in Bangladesh by prudence, flair and providing quality
of credit operations in the banking sectors. UCBL intends to meet the needs of their clients and
enhance their profitability by providing best credit facilities.
Specific Objective:
The specific focuses of the study are:
To find out the overall activities of credit management system.
To represent the procedures that bank follows for lending to the customers.
To describe the operational procedure of the different credit facilities.
Methodology:
The study requires a systematic procedure from selection of the topic to final preparation. To
perform the study, the data sources are identified and collected, these are classified, analyzed,
interpreted and presented in a systematic manner and key points have been found out. The
overall processes of methodology are given below:
Primary data:
Direct observation
Discussion with officers of UCBL
Discussion with customer
Direct involvement in the credit management activities in UCBL.
Secondary data:
Website of United Commercial Bank Limited
Annual report of United Commercial Bank Limited
Office circular and other published papers and documents
Corporate Loan:
Corporate Loan is loans that are taken by business people for doing business. Corporate
lending is essentially the same thing as a personal loan, except instead of being made from a
bank to an individual; it is made from a bank to a company. As a result, the amounts of money
being dealt with tend to be substantially larger, and some of the protections are a bit different.
Import Finance:
Importers are given this sort of facility to import different commodity items, capital machinery
and any other permissible items. L/C related shipping document is kept as primary security.
Cash margin and counter guarantee are obtained from the customer to secure its position. Two
types of L/C facility are provided:
Sight L/C- payment should be made just after receiving the documents
Deferred L/C- the beneficiary allows the importer time to pay the documents
SME Financing:
SME stands for Small and Medium Enterprises, companies whose number of employees or
income falls below certain limits. United Commercial Bank Limited SME and Corporate products
are same.
Retail Loan:
Retail banking is the direct execution of transactions between a bank and its consumers, rather
than with corporations or other banks. Services offered include savings and transactional
accounts, mortgages, personal loans, debit cards, and credit cards.
Retail loan is mean direct sale loan product to consumers. Bank hires some non permanent
people who will directly contact with customers to sell the retail loan products. Some retail
products are:
House hold
Durable loan: Consumers credit scheme is one of the popular areas of collateral free finance
of the bank. People with limited income (minimum salary 10000 to 12000) can avail the credit
facility to buy household goods including computer and other durables. Here rate of interest
18.5% and period of loan 4 years. Maximum loan limit is 5lac.
Auto loan: Auto loan is a vehicles buying loan. UCBL allows under auto loan scheme for
purchasing car, jeep, station wagon, and pick up van, covered van capacity up to 3000kg.
People who want to take this type of loan their monthly minimum salary need to be Tk. 20000
and business people income Tk. 40000. Loan limit us 20 lac and period of loan 5 years.
Home loan: To meet the growing need of housing for people, UCBL has introduced home loan
scheme. Such loan will be available for flat purchase or purchase of new apartments under
construction for self residing purpose. Bank will take mortgage against home loan. Period of
loan is within 10 to 20 years and rate of interestm16.5%.
Doctors loan: Doctors loan scheme is designed to facilitate financing to general practitioner
and established specialist physicians to acquire medical equipments and set up clinics and
hospitals. Loan limit of general practitioner is 5 lac and loan limit of specialist physicians 10 lac.
Period of loan will be 5 years and rate of interest 18%.
Any purpose loan (personal loan scheme): Personal loan scheme has been introduced to
extend credit facilities to fulfill the needs of low and middle income group for any purpose.
Maximum loan limit is 10lac. Bank will not take any mortgage against this loan. Period of loan
is 4 years and rate of interest is 18.5%.
Education loan: For educational purpose students can take loan maximum 15lac. Here rate
of interest is 18.5% and period is 4 years.
Lending process of UCBL goes through different steps with complying terms and conditions of
Bangladesh Bank. The Credit department of UCBL follows the following steps in lending-
Application for loan proposal:
Firstly, the borrower who willing to make a commitment with bank by taking loan, he must write
an application through the Head of Branch of bank and submit it to the officer at credit
department.
On proper study of the application, branch will inform the initial decision (acceptable for
processing/decline) to the applicant within 3(three) working days from the date of receiving
application. Applicant must present the following additional papers along with application for
Corporate loan & SME checklist:
Approach for required credit limit in detail.
CIB undertaking from dully filled up.
Board resolution (Mentioning credit facilities, operation & loan documentation).
Project profile/ company profile/ Company backgrounds.
Group profile.
Photocopy of up to date Trade License.
Photocopy of certificate of Incorporation.
Photocopy of Tax identification Number (TIN) of Proprietor/ Partners/ Directors.
Photograph of Proprietor/ Partners/ Directors.
Personal Net Worth of proprietor/ Partners /Directors. ( Format enclosed)
Latest list of directors duly certified by RJSC (The Register of Joint Stock Companies and Firms).
Approval letter from all concern authorities.
Financial statement ( incorporating cash flow statement. profit & loss account, balance sheet etc)
for last three years ( audited plus management copy)
List of machinery / equipments.
List of buyers and sellers.
Selection of borrower:
The selection processes include identifying source of repayment and assessing customers
ability to repay, expected future cash flows, his / her past dealings with the bank, the net worth
and information from CIB (Credit Information Bureau ). The Bank must identify the key drivers
of the borrowers business as well as the key risks to their businesses. There is an age limit for
borrower; age of the proprietor/partners/directors must be range between 25 years to 60 years.
Security analysis:
To make the loan secured, charging security on the credit facilities is very important because it
represents commitment of the borrower; it protects the interest and ensures the recovery of the
loan. The important modes of charging a security are the following:
Lien: Here, bank will give loan against customers assets or properties.
Pledge: A bank will give loan against customers products. Bank is Bailee and customer is
Bailor.
Mortgage: A bank will provide loan against customers land, building, properties etc. it is famous
in UCBL. To make the loan secured, UCBL charging mortgage.
Site visit:
The bank management visits at borrowers land, property which is placed as security against
credit. Here, Head Office Credit Team assists (on need basis) in site visitation. After site visit,
Bank at first analyses the business condition, the products, products market price and
inventory. Then analysis the mortgage land and tried to calculate lands market value.
Then, Branch credit team forwards a detailed site visit report regarding the project to the Head
Office of UCBL duly signed by the officer and Head of Branch / Operation Manager.
Documentation:
Documentation can be described as a process or technique of obtaining the relevant
documents. When bank is going to lend to a borrower after inquiring the character, capacity,
collateral and capital of the borrower, the bank must obtain proper documents which are
executed from the borrower to protect against willful defaults. Moreover, when money is lend
against some security of assets, the document must be executed in order to give the bank a
legal and binding charge against those assets. Documents contain the precise terms of granting
loans and these serve as important evidences in the law courts if the circumstances so desire.
Thats why proper documentation must be completed prior to the disbursement of the facilities.
Charged documents as required for documentation are mentioned bellow:
Demand promissory note signed on revenue stamp
Letter of arrangement
Letter of undertaking
Letter of installment
Letter of authority
Letter of disbursement
Balance confirmation slip
Letter of revival (renewal)
Letter of hypothecation
Letter of continuity (stability)
Letter of guarantee
Legal documents for mortgage of property
Valuation certificate of the collateral security in Banks form with photograph
Site visit report
Disbursement of loans:
Loan disbursement has to be made after completion documentation. Disbursements of loan
facilities are made when all documentation is in place. The steps of the disbursement-
Finally Credit division at Head Office has completed documentation of the loan that sanctioned
by them.
After completion of the documentation and sanction, Credit Division sends a copy of
Disbursement Order along with Approval letter to Head of Credit Administration Division
(CAD) & the respective branch for disbursement of the loan.
Security Documents of the loans sanctioned from Head Office are signed by customer(s) in
branch of disbursement and retained original. A set of photocopy of originals is required to be
sent to Head Office.
A set of photocopy of loan documents is retained by Credit team at Head Office; the
disbursement branch retains the originals.
At the time of disbursement, the officer prepares the vouchers and writes the pay order slip that
is signed and approved by the Second Officer and the Manager.
Apart from sanctioned the loan amount, the client is to incur some incidental charges for the
loan, like stamp fee and service charge and risk fund charge.
Recommendation:
While workings at UCBL, there were certain things that came in front of my eyes which I have
mentioned in findings. UCBL should consider those criteria for the development of credit
management. Perhaps UCBL has its own options and strategy to follow in these issues. Here
are some recommendations as per my findings-
The bank must analyze all evidences of mortgaged property: As title of mortgaged properties
may have complexity, so a comprehensive and accurate appraisal of the property in every credit
proposal of the bank is important and mandatory. No proposal can be put on place unless there
has been found a complete, accurate evaluation of property. In order to safeguard the mortgage
over the entire period of the advance, a comprehensive view of the capital of borrower,
adequacy, and nature of security should be compliance with all regulatory/legal formalities and
condition of all documentation. It is absolute responsibility of the Credit Officer to ensure that all
the necessary documents are analyzed properly before the loan is placed for approval. On the
other-hand, where Loans/Advances/Credit facilities are granted against the guarantee of the
third party, that guarantor must be subject to the same credit assessment as made for the
principal borrower.
Valuation task should be assigned to confident party: Sometimes the bank becomes
swindled by valuation party. So the bank must assign property valuation task to that kind of
confident party who strictly follows the terms and condition in evaluating proper value of the
property, assets as well as maintaining confidentiality. Enlisted Surveyor Company approved by
the bank should make valuation of property and properly assess the quality and priority of the
proposed security. The bank should keep a pleasant relationship with valuation party in order to
acquire proper valuation.
Bank need to hire best lawyer to justify the mortgage land
The bank should being independent from pressures: Credit proposals should not be
influenced by any political person whether it is the matter between bank and client.
The bank must keep close follow up after the disbursement: The loan should be utilized for
the specified purpose for which it has been sanctioned. Furthermore, the bank must be vigilant
so that the disbursed funds for a particular purpose are not diverted elsewhere without their
knowledge.
Therefore, the bank must accept any difficulties and think of them as objective to pursue future
goals by solving the problems instead of blaming other factors and UCBL must be able to keep
on playing its important roles in our economy.
Conclusion:
United Commercial Bank has established credit relationship with many reputed multinational
companies, semi-government organization as its customer group ranges from individuals,
organizations and small businesses covering all sectors of Corporate and Retail businesses.
UCBL has aim to contribute in potential sectors like as agriculture, electronics, SME, healthcare
etc. by providing not only credit services but also taking essential steps to expand these sectors
through participating actively in economic development of the country. UCBL will make a
positive attempt to be more outward looking in their goals and emphasize on the domestic
scenario more closely and analyze any certain trends and strategies of their competitors.