The Credit Risk Group employs an array of processes to fix ceilings on exposure arising from a counterparty or issuer becoming unsuccessful in performing on its commitment of the deal. The Group executes analysis in the perspective of industrial, regional, and international economic trends and includes portfolio and intensity influences at the time of shaping tolerance levels. Credit risk limits consider steps comprising both present and prospective exposure and are fixed and examined by broad risk category and tenor to maturity. (Risk Management)
Credit risk alleviation methods comprise, where suitable, the prerogative to need startup collateral or margin, the privilege to cease transaction or get guarantee in case any untoward incidents happen, the prerogative to ask for the guarantee in the event when some exposure ceilings are crossed, and the purchase of credit default safeguards. With the participation of the senior management, Merrill Lynch undertakes routine portfolio assessments, examines counterparty creditworthiness, and estimates transaction risks to accomplish initial problem recognition and safeguarding against undesirable credit-linked losses. Credit risk and exposure that stem from Merrill Lynch's retail customer business is scrutinized relentlessly by CRM. The various exposures come through credit risks for mortgages, home equity lines of credit, margin accounts, and working capital lines which Merrill Lynch keeps with several small business clients.
At the opportune moment, these exposures are collateralized in keeping with the regulatory compulsions entailing such actions. The credit risk in Merrill Lynch's U.S. banks' investment portfolios is reviewed with the confines of CRM and through credit risk management analysts. Apart from that, Merrill Lynch's U.S. banks have their own credit approval and monitoring...
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