Enterprise Risk Management at BNP Paribas
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Case Details:
Case Code : ERMT-021
Case Length : 15 Pages
Period : 2003
Pub Date : 2003
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : BNP Paribas
Industry : Banking
Countries : Global
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Overview of Risks
Five principles defined the scope of BNP's Global Risk
Management Department (GRM)
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A. Active Control
GRM was responsible for ensuring that the risks taken by the bank were
compatible with its profitability and credit rating objectives. GRM regularly
reported to the Internal Control and Risk Management Committee of the Board on
its main findings concerning risks, and how they were measured and consolidate
them on a Group-wide basis...
B. Strong Independence
GRM reported directly to Executive Management and was outside any business line
or territory authority. GRM had cross-functional teams in the main
territories...
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C. Wide Range of Competence
GRM had responsibility for all risks arising in the course of the Group's
business. There were five main categories of risk: Credit risk, Market &
Liquidity risk, Operational risk, Insurance risk (risk due to the specific risk
arising from unexpected changes in claims experience) and New risks (risks
generated by changes in the banking business)...
D. Intervention at All Levels of The Risk-Taking and Monitoring Chain
As part of risk decision-making, GRM performed the following core functions:
Policy: GRM made recommendations to Executive Management concerning risk
acceptance policies and was responsible for approving new businesses and
products that exposed the Group to new types of risk...
E. Global Organisation
GRM teams were based in the various territories. These teams were placed under
the direct authority of GRM and had a clear functional reporting relationship
with GRM. In some cases, where the risks involved were of a different nature as
in Retail Banking, the business line concerned had its own risk management
function...
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Credit Risk
BNP's lending operations were subject to the General Lending Policy approved by
the Risk Policy Committee chaired by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
The Group-level strategy was then rolled down to the various divisions and
business lines, which were fully responsible and accountable for managing risks.
The group aimed at achieving a sound diversification of risks among borrowers
and industries, taking into account country risks. The Group's overall portfolio
of commercial loans and commitments totalled EUR 387 billion as on 31 December
2002, down 3.5% from the figure as on 31 December 2001... |
Market and Liquidity Risks
Overall responsibility for managing market and liquidity risks lay with the
Market Risk Committee headed by one of the Chief Operating Officers and backed
by GRM. The Committee met once a month to approve risk management methods and
procedures, define exposure limits and check compliance with these limits...
Operational Risk
Operational risk correspondents had been appointed in each business line and
each corporate department, to ensure that Group operational risk management
guidelines were implemented. They were backed by numerous risk officers within
their units. Various initiatives had been launched to produce detailed
measurements of operational risk, to comply with future regulatory requirements.
An Incident Management Policy and an Incident Management System ("IMS") had been
established in order to collect detailed historical loss data, for the entire
Group...
Information Protection
BNP's information systems security policy was monitored by Group Management.
Systems security considerations were factored into all IT projects from the
outset. Periodic monitoring was used to ensure that the level of systems
security was maintained. This was backed up by a technical intelligence service
to ensure that the latest advances in systems security were implemented...
Exhibits
Exhibit I: BNP Doubtful Commitments
Exhibit II: BNP Doubtful Loans breakdown by Type of Customer
Exhibit III: BNP Doubtful Loans breakdown by Geographic Area
Exhibit IV: BNP Doubtful loans Industry Breakdown
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