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.
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Many Operational Risk events are taking place in the industry, which is in increasing trend. The risk event types indicate that it is happening on account of inadequate systemic infrastructure, unskilled human resource depending on a few IT personals and inadequate knowledge and skills on IT of the senior officials who supervise IT personals.
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.
Role of the Board of Directors (BoD) is paramount in driving the Bank by maintaining high standard of corporate governance, safeguarding the interest of the depositors and meeting the expectations of the stakeholders.
Whilst BoD delegates the authority to the Director(s), CEO or any other officials, the ultimate responsibility lies on them, which is substantiated by NRB Directives No 6/072, Section No 2 (e).
The workshop will focus on developing conceptual skills of staff working in the Cash Area as well as provide a holistic environment for staff to clear up issues being faced on a day to day basis in their work place. The major aim of this Training Program is to make the participants aware about the theoretical as well as practical aspects of Cash Management. The Program is intended to equip the participants with knowledge so at to enable them to conduct their day to day operations independently.
The present age of business is extremely competitive and the only tool for survival is adaptability which comes through constant change. Vested deeply in leadership styles, culture and communication, successful change is vital and yet hard to describe. The role of human resource as an active partner, focusing on the company's vision and ensuring open communication channels is fundamental for change in the organization. Change in any organization may be a result of a combination of elements; social, cultural, economic and/or environmental.
Banking industry in Nepal has rapidly grown in last decade. With the growth, the industry has faced acute shortage of knowledge and skill of Sales, Service and Compliance in its existing pool of human capital. Lack of proper curricula, untrained trainers and absence of trainings in the industry led to huge knowledge gap within its human capital.
Due to the globalization of the economy, commercial banks are expanding their nationwide presence. The retail business is another important source of banking revenue, offering high margin transactions, a low non-performing loan ratio, risk diversification, and a low risk of default. Although self-service banking (automated teller machines) and internet banking offer customers convenient real-time access, branch banks provide more convenient and people-friendly service.
Due to the globalization of the economy, commercial banks are expanding their nationwide presence. The retail business is another important source of banking revenue, offering high margin transactions, a low non-performing loan ratio, risk diversification, and a low risk of default. Although self-service banking (automated teller machines) and internet banking offer customers convenient real-time access, branch banks provide more convenient and people-friendly service.
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.
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) is the Central Bank of Nepal and regulatory body of commercial bank and financial institutions. One of the NRB’s objectives as set out in NRB Act, 2002 is to maintain financial stability. In order to achieve this objective, NRB has issued 23 directives to Banks and Financial Institutions. Out this, directives no. 2, 3 and 12 are related to credit management, single obligor limit and blacklisting requirement. These directives are most important for credit department and revisions/amendments in these directives are made annually.
This program provides the participant with basic foundation of knowledge and skills that help them to reach sound, reliable judgment of company creditworthiness. It shall focus on practical introduction to financial statement from the perspective of the credit analysts. Discussion on each component of financials statement will help the delegates to assess key qualitative and quantitative factors in determining limit requirement and repayment capacity borrower.
For financial institutions, to identify the person and their intention is always key issue. For this, knowing the customer is always essential. And upgrading this mechanism NRB is regularly monitoring and circulating new guidelines. But how we can observe all these things to implement all those properly is still a major problem. This program will fully support to apply those technical events with cross-check manner.
Traditionally banking activities related with card and ebanking products are considered to be head office functions as a result training on such products is limited to staff of IT Department of Card & eBanking Department. On the other hand, staff at branches who are directly responsible for show casing the product to the customers, selling them and support customers when they face problem are deprived of such training.
Productive sectors are the real sectors of the economy. Sectoral components of GDP such as agriculture, industry and services are the productive sectors. It reflects the viable, creditworthy picture of an economy emerging. Investment on the productive sectors has been a main focus of the government thus to stimulate economic growth and generate income and employment opportunities.
The banking industry in Nepal has seen exponential growth. The competitive market has stretched the limits of customer numbers. To tackle these issues, excellent customer service and innovative marketing of one’s banking products becomes essential. With this in mind National Banking Institute brings to you Documentary Letter of Credit and Current NRB Regulations. This program aims to deliver the best course content with consultation with the industry experts.