This course covers Policy Deviation Identification, which involves identifying departures from approved credit policies, monitoring standards, risk limits, and governance requirements that may create heightened exposure risk within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance workflows. It focuses on assessing whether portfolio monitoring activities, risk assessments, escalation practices, and credit management decisions remain aligned with established policy frameworks and regulatory expectations. The course examines how policy deviations can act as early indicators of control weaknesses, governance gaps, increased risk concentrations, or potential compliance concerns requiring timely intervention. It evaluates key dimensions such as early warning signal identification, risk trend analysis, proactive portfolio risk management, and assessment scope, with each requiring independent validation and documented rationale before any credit action is finalized. Particular emphasis is placed on detecting unauthorized exceptions, evaluating the materiality of deviations, assessing potential portfolio impacts, and ensuring appropriate escalation and corrective action. It is distinct from operational procedure design, as it focuses on the identification, assessment, and response to policy deviations affecting monitored exposures, rather than the broader design and implementation of operational processes and control frameworks. Within Exception & Deviation 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, risk priorities, and governance decisions related to policy exceptions and deviation management.