This course covers Downside Scenario Construction, which involves assessing and developing adverse but plausible scenarios to identify potential vulnerabilities and risk exposures within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance workflows. It focuses on constructing stress scenarios that evaluate the impact of unfavorable economic conditions, market disruptions, sector downturns, borrower-specific challenges, and other risk events on portfolio performance and asset quality. The course examines how structured downside scenarios can help anticipate potential losses, identify concentration risks, assess resilience under stress, and support proactive portfolio risk management. It evaluates key dimensions such as control lapses, early warning signal identification, risk trend analysis, and proactive portfolio risk management, with each requiring independent validation and documented rationale before any credit action is finalized. Particular emphasis is placed on defining scenario assumptions, assessing exposure sensitivity, evaluating stress impacts across portfolio segments, and identifying areas requiring enhanced monitoring or mitigation. It is distinct from broader credit management processes, as it focuses specifically on the construction and application of downside scenarios for exposure assessment and stress-based risk evaluation, rather than broader strategic credit planning or portfolio management activities. Within Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis, the senior credit leader sets portfolio limits, governs exception criteria, and drives strategic alignment across the Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance function, shaping escalation scope, risk priorities, and portfolio management decisions based on stress testing outcomes and downside risk assessments.