This course covers Movement Between SMA Buckets, which involves assessing the progression and migration of borrower accounts between different Special Mention Account (SMA) categories to identify emerging credit risks and deterioration trends within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance workflows. It focuses on monitoring how exposures move between SMA classifications based on repayment delays, account conduct, and evolving borrower risk profiles, providing early visibility into weakening credit quality before accounts become non-performing assets. The course examines how upward migration across SMA buckets can signal increasing financial stress, declining repayment capacity, and heightened default risk requiring closer monitoring and intervention. 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 tracking migration patterns, identifying accounts exhibiting accelerated deterioration, assessing the drivers of movement between SMA categories, and supporting timely escalation and remediation actions. It is distinct from broader credit management processes, as it focuses specifically on the monitoring and interpretation of SMA bucket transitions as part of exposure surveillance and breach response activities, rather than broader strategic credit planning or portfolio management functions. Within Watchlist & Special Mention Account Management, the senior credit leader sets portfolio limits, governs exception criteria, and drives strategic alignment across the Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance function, shaping escalation scope, monitoring priorities, and risk management actions based on SMA migration trends and emerging portfolio stress indicators.