Loan Loss Provision as One of the Ways to Minimize Credit Risk

Abstract

The article examines credit risk of a commercial bank, ways of minimizing it, focusing on credit risk control for loan products in banks. It is noted that the Central Bank of the Russian Federation regulates managing credit risks for credit organization and forming a reserve for these risks. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation had four stages in regulating the creation by credit organizations of a reserve for risk control for loan products since 1990, while credit organizations have not been required to establish such reserves even today. At each of the steps identified, credit risk management practices are described and evaluated. The authors noted that there had been a shift from administrative methods of credit risk management to market-based methods that allowed a credit organization to develop its own methods of assessing a borrowers financial situation. As part of the further development of the practice of reserve for risk control for loan products, dynamic reserve methods are identified to ensure the reliability of credit institutions in an unstable economy.