This course covers Watchlist Entry Criteria, which involves assessing the conditions, indicators, and risk thresholds used to determine whether a borrower or exposure should be placed on a watchlist within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance workflows. It focuses on identifying accounts that exhibit signs of potential deterioration, increased risk, or emerging concerns requiring enhanced monitoring and management attention. The course examines how financial stress, payment irregularities, covenant breaches, operational challenges, adverse external developments, and other warning indicators can trigger watchlist inclusion before significant credit deterioration occurs. 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 establishing objective entry criteria, ensuring consistency in watchlist decisions, assessing risk severity, and supporting timely escalation of vulnerable exposures. It is distinct from broader credit management processes, as it focuses specifically on the identification and management of higher-risk exposures through structured watchlist monitoring 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 related to watchlisted accounts and emerging portfolio concerns.