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The trade of counterfeit currency is a big challenge over the world and financial institutions are places where most of transaction takes place. But still some foreign currencies are not so familiar for bankers. Even they don’t know how they look. The system applied in bank is just traced the currency number, customer phone number, keep the Xerox copies of passport and other travel documents. To produce fake passport along with counterfeit currency is trend for fraudsters.

Operational Risk has been increasing day by day in the Nepalese Financial Sector and large risks events are taking place one after another. INR Draft events taken place in Kathmandu, good for payment incident happened at one of the development banks and remittance fund embezzlement case incurred at one of the large commercial banks are the examples of a few incidents.

The country received the inward remittance of about Rs 550 billion in In FY 071/72 only, which is about 20% on the total GDP of the country. Notably, Nepal is ranked in the 7th Position in terms of remittance's contribution in the GDP.

Whilst the inward remittance is contributing significantly in the economy and enabling to uplift the life standard of people and supporting BFIs to increase FCY trading / revaluation gain and fee income, many operational risk events are also taking place along with increase in remittance business.

There is a saying – ‘If you fail to plan, you plan to fail’. Budgeting is more about planning – planning of our spending to achieve certain goal in a particular given time period. Budgeting is a process of creating a plan of our spending on a proper manner. This is, in fact, a tool of our planning. Our success depends on a proper planning. Therefore, we need to prepare our budget very carefully taking into account complete information, future priorities/ goals, resources etc.