How to Write, Implement, and Maintain Your Credit Policy
  • CODE : DEVS-0046
  • Duration : 60 Minutes
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A frequent speaker, instructor, advisor and writer on credit risk and commercial banking topics and issues, Dev is principal of Devon Risk Advisory Group and engages in consulting, speaking and training on a wide range of risk, credit, and lending topics. As former SVP and senior credit policy officer at SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, he was responsible for developing, implementing, and administering credit policies for SunTrust's wholesale lines of business--commercial, commercial real estate, corporate investment banking, capital markets, business banking and private wealth management. He also spent three years as managing director and credit approver in SunTrust's Florida commercial lending and corporate investment banking areas, respectively. Prior to SunTrust, Dev was chief credit officer for Barnett Bank's Palm Beach market. Besides stints at other banks in Florida, Kansas City, and Ohio, Dev's experiences outside of banking include CFO of a Honolulu construction company, combat engineer officer in the U.S. Army, and college economics instructor in Hawaii, Missouri, and Florida. A graduate of Ohio State University and the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking, he earned his M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii.

Dev serves as an instructor in the Stonier Graduate School of Banking, the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking, and the American Bankers Association's (ABA) Commercial Lending. His school, conference, and workshop audiences have included participants drawn from the ABA, RMA, OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, FFIEC, SBA, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and the AICPA.

Dev has written about credit risk management, financial analysis and related subjects for the Risk Management Association's RMA Journal, and other business professional journals. He is the author of Analyzing Construction Contractors and its related RMA workshop. A past national chair of RMA and former Florida Chapter president, Dev serves as a member of the RMA Journal's advisory board, and he also serves on the advisory board of the Atlanta Chapter of the Professional Risk Managers' International Association (PRMIA), and he has consulted on credit risk issues with banks in Morocco, Egypt, and Angola through the US State Department's Financial Service Volunteer Corps (FSVC).  He also served on the Private Company Council (PCC) of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB);  the PCC reviews current and proposed generally accepted principles (GAAP) and recommends revisions that simplify their use for privately held organizations.




Right or wrong, credit policy is the organization’s rule book for its credit risk management strategy, and it also reflects the organization’s credit culture. Both the market and the regulatory agencies expect the credit policy to be accurate, current, and succinct so that both line and credit have unambiguous and clear direction on how to identify, evaluate, underwrite, approve, book and monitor creditworthy clients.

Learning Objectives   

  • Diagnose their own credit policies to identify any gaps, and if so, how to  write practical and understandable policies that meet regulatory expectations for content.
  • Implement and maintain the processes and procedures needed to ensure that their policies are kept current and accurate.
  • Monitor compliance with policies by means of tracking exceptions to policies and resolving the reasons for the deviations.

Areas Covered 

  • Basic topics and contents of credit policy
  • Content expectations of regulatory agencies
  • Tips on how to write credit policy
  • Examples of typical credit policy guidance
  • Credit policy standard format
  • Policy exceptions and their role in credit risk management
  • Indicators of possible need for revision of credit policy

Course Level - Basic/Fundamental

Who Should Attend

  • Credit policy managers
  • Credit managers
  • Credit Risk Managers
  • Credit approval officers
  • Risk Managers
  • Enterprise Risk Managers
  • Chief Credit Officers
  • Senior Lenders
  • Senior Lending Officer
  • Bank Director
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Bank President
  • Board Chairman

Why Should You Attend

A well-crafted credit policy:

  • Focuses the organization - everyone on the same page
  • Reduces organizational conflict and confusion - priorities
  • Minimizes need for rigid controls
  • Supports commitment to the organizational vision and mission

These benefits derived from good credit policy are why you should attend

  • $200.00



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