1.1 Origin of The Report
1.1 Origin of The Report
1.1 Origin of The Report
Last year Bangladesh Bank undertook a project to review the global best practices in the
banking sector and examines in the possibility of introducing these in the banking
industry of Bangladesh. Four 'Focus Groups' were formed with participation from
Nationalized Commercial Banks, Private Commercial Banks & Foreign Banks with
representatives from the Bangladesh Bank as team coordinators to look into the practices
of the best performing banks both at home and abroad. These focus groups identified and
selected five core risk areas and produce a document that would be a basic risk
management model for each of the five 'core' risk areas of banking. The five core risk
areas are as follows-
a) Credit Risks;
b) Asset and Liability/Balance Sheet Risks;
c) Foreign Exchange Risks;
d) Internal Control and Compliance Risks; and
e) Money Laundering Risks.
Bangladesh Bank in one of it’s circular (BRPD Circular no.17) advised the commercial
banks of Bangladesh to put in place an effective risk management system by December,
2003 based on the guidelines sent to them.
I am working in the Credit Department of Dhaka Bank Limited, Islampur Branch. In this
report, I will try to make a comparative analysis between Bangladesh Bank’s suggested
best practices guideline for managing credit risk and Dhaka Bank Limited existing credit
policy .
The study would focus on the following areas of DHAKA Bank Limited.
Credit appraisal system of DHAKA Bank Limited.¬
Procedure for different credit facilities.¬
Portfolio (of Loan or advances) management of DHAKA Bank Limited.¬
Organization structures and responsibilities of management.¬
Each of the above areas would be critically analyzed in order to determine the efficiency
of DBL’s Credit appraisal and Management system.
Information collected to furnish this report is both from primary and secondary in nature.
The secondary information was collected from the different publication, and books. For
collecting books and periodicals I have used the following library:
IBA Library
BIBM Library
Bangladesh Bank Library
This report will only consider credit risks of Dhaka Bank limited. It will not cover
This report is divided in five sections. The following section is the organization part i.e.
this section will give an overview of Dhaka Bank Limited. In section iii, Credit
management policy and practice of DBL is critically analysed followed by Bangladesh
Bank’s Best practice guideline for credit management in section iv. Section v deals with
findings and recommendations.