This is the first comprehensive and practical book on the management and audit of banking risks. Written by a qualified and experienced banker, it deals with the subject in its entirety and lays particular emphasis on its practical aspects based on real-life situations. The book will be of great help to bankers handling the risk management function in banks and other financial institutions. The book would also prove to be of value to corporate managers and entrepreneurs in dealing with banks, and to training institutions conducting programmes on finance and bank management.

Highlights:

• Management and audit of credit risk

• How to tackle market risk, with special focus on interest rate risk

• Management of foreign exchange and country risks

• Management and audit of liquidity risk

• How to manage and audit of operational risks

• How to evaluate and audit organization and management risk

• How to manage equity and commodity price risks

• Business strategy and environment risks for banks.

S. N. Bidani is a Mechanical Engineer with a postgraduate diploma in Industrial Management from Delhi University. The Government of India sponsored him for an International Programme in Advanced Industrial Management conducted by the Research Institute of Management Sciences (RVB) of the Netherlands. He had earlier visited the United Kingdom for technical training under a foreign collaboration agreement and successfully implemented industrial projects in India. He held senior techno managerial positions in industrial units for a period over 10 years.

He joined the Punjab National Bank in 1970 as Technical Officer to appraise projects received from entrepreneurs proposing to set up industrial units. He worked in the bank in various capacities and retired as Deputy General Manager from the corporate office of the bank looking after credit policy function. He was co-opted as a member in the support group formed to assist the committee constituted by the Government of India on Management of Non-Performing Assets in banks.

He has authored four books -- Industrial Sickness: Identification and Rehabilitation; Bank Finance for Industry: Working Capital and Term Loan; How Bank Credit is Administered: Supervision and Follow-up and Managing Non-Performing Assets in Banks which were prominently reviewed and commented upon in the media and appreciated by both the banking industry and business.