Banking · Risk Diversification
A bank uses diversification across sectors, geographies, products, and borrower categories as part of its overall risk framework. The main reason diversification is considered a risk-management tool is that it:
- 1Replaces the need for capital adequacy and provisioning norms
- 2Reduces concentration by spreading exposures so that adverse events in one segment do not fully damage the whole portfolio✓
- 3Ensures that credit appraisal standards may be relaxed safely
- 4Guarantees elimination of all losses under every condition
Correct answer
Reduces concentration by spreading exposures so that adverse events in one segment do not fully damage the whole portfolio
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