The Role of Credit Analysis in limit the Risk of Banking Credit (Fieled Study on Commercial Bank of Syria in Lattakia)


Abstract in English

The banking sector shapes a main backbone of economy in any country, given the great services provided by the economic life in any society, in addition to the significant developmental role play as a motivator and a engine of development wheel, and like all other institutions banks seem subject to the competition element among them in the domain of credit granting. The significant developments in the financial sector at the level of the world marked by the enormous technological progress in the banking industry, and the introduction of new financial instruments some financial crises, and most of the crises in the financial sector problems were common denominator where the banks, experts attributed this to increased risks, led by banking credit risk arising from credit granting, therefore it was necessary for each bank to put specific controls that guarantee the possibility of increasing granting credit while maintaining risk within acceptable limits, this requires the availability of an efficient system of credit analysis. Here they sought researcher of this study is to focus on the study of credit made ​​in the Commercial Bank of Syria, which overlook a lot of the important aspects that need to be studied and which may constitute a starting point for risk, Which leads in turn to stumble in the future, the researcher in theoretical section depended on the descriptive approach to what is stated in the most important books and references Banking and Finance, and depended on field study in the practical side to get to know the reality of the studies conducted by the Commercial Bank of Syria before granting loans and advances. The goal of the researcher of this study to verify the existence of a certified system of credit analysis at the Commercial Bank of Syria, and the efficiency analysis in commercial bank credit to reduce the size of the credit risk associated with the granting of loans. The most important results lack a holistic system of system credit analysis at the Commercial Bank of Syria, particularly with regard to financial ratios used in the analysis process, the adoption of curriculum diversification to reduce risks associated with the granting of credit, The bank's focus on collateral and personal for the granting of loans, and credit analysis neglects to identify the purpose of the granting of the loan as well as the history of banking transactions for credit applicants with other banks.

References used

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Weston, J., Besley, S. and Brigham, T., Essentials of managerial Finance, University of California, Los Anglos, ( The Dryden press), 1996, p 35

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