Evaluating the Credit Risk Management Framework of Public and Private Sector Banks in India : A Comparative Study

Professional management and sincere efforts towards upgrading Credit Risk Management (CRM) framework have gained reasonable pace in both the public and private sector banks alike. The present study, first of its kind, attempts to find the difference in the strength of overall CRM framework of private and public sector banks in India in quantitative terms and also identifies the specific CRM elements leading to such differences in their respective frameworks, if any. A mathematical evaluation tool, namely, CRM Index Score, comprising quantitative assessment of the current set of CRM practices relating to organization, policy and strategy, operations and systems at transaction level and operations and systems at portfolio level, the four basic elements of CRM framework, were deployed for making a comparative evaluation. The findings revealed that the strength of the overall CRM framework did not vary significantly between public and private sector banks as on the whole there existed very little difference in the scores of the public and private sector banks