Investigating the Impact of Credit Risk on Financial Performance of Commercial Bank in India

In this liberalization period, credit Risk Management has got much importance in the Indian Economy. The main challenges faced by the banking sector today are the challenge of identifying the risk and managing it. The risk is imbibed nature of the banking business. The main role of a bank is of intermediate for those having resources and requiring resources. For risk management various risks like credit risk, market risk or operational risk have to be converted into one composite measure. The importance of credit risk management and its impact on profitability has motivated us to pursue this study. We assume that if the credit risk management is sound, the profit level will be satisfactory. The other way around, if the credit risk management is poor, the profit level will be relatively lower. Because the less the banks loss from credits, the more the banks gain. Therefore, it is necessary that measurement of credit risk should be in tandem with other measurements of operation and market risk so that the requisite composite estimate can be worked out. So, in banking sector credit risk management is being most important task of all. Moreover, the central question is how significant the impact of credit risk management on profitability is. This thesis is an endeavor to find the answer. The principal concern of this thesis is to ascertain to what extent banks can manage their credit risks, what tools or techniques are at their disposal and to what extent their performance can be augmented by proper credit risk management policies and strategies.