ASSESSMENT OF THE CREDIT RISK OF A COMMERCIAL BANK UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE CORONA CRISIS

Abstract

The article carries out a thorough analysis of the essence of the concept of "credit risk", high-lights its causes and main features. The authors provide an analysis of the main indicators of the credit market of Ukraine, namely the dynamics of changes in credit risk factors. Such indicators include: the share of the loan portfolio in the assets of banks, the ratio of equity capital to the loan portfolio, the share of loans in foreign currency, the share of overdue loans and the share of non-performing loans, NBU credit risk standards and their compliance by commercial banks. Also, after the analysis, the au-thors proposed an organizational and economic mechanism of credit risk management, which contains such components as: methodical base, provision, levers and principles, indicators, resources, factors affecting credit risk, management and control bodies, the object and purpose of management. After that, the authors outline the main principles of its operation and recommendations for implementation. In general, for the implementation of the proposed mechanism, it is envisaged to finalize the regulato-ry and legal framework, conduct a flexible and adaptive credit policy to changes in the market situa-tion both at the level of the country and at the level of an individual commercial bank, and introduce a single broad information base for assessing all criteria of the solvency of each individual the borrow-er, development of an effective personnel policy of a commercial bank, provision of an independent, systematic and continuous assessment of credit risks in order to ensure the appropriate level of finan-cial stability of the bank.