Credit's worthy start

Top-tier banks in South Africa are making some headway in their quest to move towards a more formal, integrated approach to credit portfolio management. While the credit derivatives market certainly needs further development, securitisation is establishing itself as an important tool. By Clive Davidson

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Major banks in South Africa are experimenting to find the most appropriate credit portfolio management approach for their particular businesses. The practice, which is now commonplace at medium-sized and larger banks in the US, Europe and beyond, involves measuring and managing exposures arising from loans, bonds and other forms of credit risk as a portfolio. Often overturning traditional notions of how credit and counterparty risk should be handled, credit portfolio management's introduction

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