Enterprise Risk Management in Ethiopian Private Banks. An Assessment

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 3.33, Ethiopian Civil Service University, course: Financial Management, language: English, abstract: The aim of this research is to explore the practice of Enterprise Risk Management in Ethiopian Private Banks. Currently, there are 16 private commercial banks working in the country, some of which are celebrating their 20 years' anniversaries. To represent all the 16 private banks, the researcher grouped them in two categories. Wegagen Bank, United Bank and Bank of Abyssinia has been selected from the earliest established commercial banks and Abay Bank, Buna international Bank and Berhan Bank were selected from the lately established banks in simple random sampling method with a total number of 51 employees working risk management area from the selected 6 commercial banks.

The data were collected through questionnaire and face to face interview. The questionnaires were distributed to all risk management department staff of each selected commercial banks. The interviews were made with NBE¿s bank supervision department and directors as well as managers and directors of commercial banks. 51 questionnaires were distributed, properly filled and fully returned to the researcher. The finding of the research reveals that, the major challenge faced by commercial banks are weak ton at the top, absence of qualified staff, absence of advanced risk management technology and lower management attention and the recommendations were, Banks should have an enterprise risk management committee at management level, Banks should conduct workshops or panel discussion to identify enterprise level risks in each activity and Banks should have comprehensive risk register and database to run their business with smooth operations and absence of interruption.