Risk management

Risk management

The mission of risk management in the Bank Millennium Group is to ensure that all types of risks, financial and non-financial, are managed, monitored and controlled as required for the risk profile (risk tolerance), nature and scale of the Group's operations. Important principle of risk management is the optimization of the risk and profitability trade-off – the Group pays special attention to ensure that its business decisions balance risk and profit adequately.

The Supervisory Board is responsible for overseeing the compliance of the Group’s risk-taking policy with the Group’s strategy and its financial plan. Within the Supervisory Board acts the Committee for Risk Matters, which supports it in realization of those tasks, among others, issuing opinion on the Group’s Risk Strategy, including the Group’s Risk Tolerance;
The Management Board is responsible for the effectiveness of the risk management system, internal capital estimation process, for reviewing the internal capital calculation and maintenance process and the internal control systems;
The Credit Committee, the Capital, Assets and Liabilities Committee, and the Liabilities at Risk Committee are responsible for current management of different areas of banking risk, within the framework determined by the Management Board;
The Risk Committee and the Processes and Operational Risk Committee are responsible for defining the policy and for monitoring and control of different areas of banking risk, within the framework determined by the Management Board;
The Validation Committee is responsible for confirmation of risk models validation results and follow-up in the implementation of the measures defined by the Models Validation Office;
The Risk Department is responsible for risk management, including identifying, measuring, analysing, monitoring and reporting on risk within the Bank. The Risk Department also prepares risk management policies and procedures as well as provides information and proposes courses of action necessary for the Capital, Assets and Liabilities Committee, Risk Committee and the Management Board to make decisions with respect to risk management;
The Rating Department is mainly responsible for risk rating assignment for Corporate clients (based on the evaluation of clients’ creditworthiness) as well as for rating monitoring and potential revision during the period of its validity. Rating assignment process is independent from credit decision process;
The Corporate Credit Underwriting Department, Mortgage Credit Underwriting Department and Consumer Finance Credit Underwriting Department have responsibility, within the Corporate Customer segment and Retail Customer segment, respectively, for the credit decision process, including analysing customers’ financial situation, preparing credit proposals for the decision-making levels and making credit decisions within specified limits;
The Retail Liabilities Monitoring and Collection Department and Retail Liabilities Restructuring and Recovery Department have responsibility for monitoring repayment of overdue debts by retail customers and their collection;
The Corporate Recovery Department develops specific strategies with respect to each debtor from recovery portfolio, which aims to maximize timely collection of the outstanding debt and minimize the risk incurred by the Group. This approach is constantly revised to reflect updated information, and the best practices and experiences regarding collection of overdue debts;
The Treasury Control and Analyses Office has responsibility for monitoring the use of part of the Group’s limits, including counterparty and stop-loss limits, the Group’s FX position, results of active trading and control of operations of the treasury segment;
The Models Validation Office has responsibility for qualitative and quantitative models analysis and validation, independent from the function of models development; development of the models validation and monitoring tools; activities connected with issuing opinions on the adequacy of the models for the segment, for which they were developed; preparing reports for the Validation Committee needs;
Fraud Risk Management Team in the Security Department has responsibility for implementation and monitoring the Bank policy execution in the scope of fraud risk management in cooperation with others Bank units. Team constitutes a competence centre for anti-fraud process;
The Compliance Department has the responsibility to ensure compliance with legal regulations, related regulatory standards, market principles and standards as well as internal organization regulations and codes of conduct.

The split of competence in the field of risk management is as follows:

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