This course introduces the concept of the Over-Utilisation Control Framework within the Working Capital – Consumer Credit framework. It focuses on establishing structured controls to prevent, detect, and manage sustained over-utilisation of approved credit limits, ensuring disciplined exposure management and portfolio stability.
Learners will explore key assessment dimensions such as designing appropriate credit limits, defining drawing rights, establishing utilisation expectations, and developing renewal philosophies aligned with borrower cash-flow behaviour and risk appetite, with an emphasis on independent validation and well-documented rationale. The course highlights how persistent over-utilisation can indicate liquidity stress, weakened repayment capacity, or misuse of working capital facilities, potentially increasing default risk and operational strain if not effectively monitored and controlled. It also examines escalation triggers, corrective action frameworks, and renewal decision practices used to manage high-utilisation exposures.
The course distinguishes the over-utilisation control framework from broader compliance monitoring frameworks, emphasizing its role in exposure-level utilisation management, breach detection, and structured response mechanisms, whereas compliance monitoring focuses on enterprise-wide adherence to regulatory and control standards. Each requires distinct evidence standards, ownership, and approval authority.
By the end of the course, participants will understand how to design, implement, and monitor over-utilisation controls in practice, particularly within Limit Design, Utilisation, and Renewal management. The course also emphasizes the role of the credit manager in validating team-level analysis, approving case recommendations, and managing segment-level exposure within Working Capital – Consumer Credit, ensuring disciplined utilisation oversight, effective escalation, and alignment with credit committee priorities.