BARBADOS PUBLIC WORKERS’ CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNION LIMITED
CONSOLIDATED ANNUAL REPORT 2016
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BARBADOS PUBLIC WORKERS' CO-OPERATIVE CREDIT UNION LIMITED
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
For the year ended March 31, 2016
(Expressed in Barbados dollars)
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25. Financial Risk Management,
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25.2 Credit risk,
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Loans with renegotiated terms and the Groupʼs forbearance policy,
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The revised terms usually include extending maturity, changing timing of interest payments and
amendments to the terms of loan covenants. All loans are subject to the forbearance policy.
Once the loan is restructured it remains in this category independent of satisfactory performance after
restructuring. The Group’s Credit Committee regularly reviews reports on forbearance activities.
Write-off policy
The Group writes off a loan or an investment debt security balance, and any related allowances for
impairment losses, when it is determined that the loan or security is uncollectible. This determination is
made after considering information such as the occurrence of significant changes in the
borrower’s/issuer’s financial position such that the borrower/issuer can no longer pay the obligation, or
that proceeds from collateral will not be sufficient to pay back the entire exposure. For smaller balance
standardised loans, write-off decisions generally are based on a product-specific past due status.
Commitments and guarantees
To meet the financial needs of customers, the Group enters into various irrevocable commitments and
contingent liabilities. Even though these obligations may not be recognised on the statement of financial
position, they do contain credit risk and are therefore part of the overall risk of the Group.
25.3 Liquidity risk and funding management
Liquidity risk is defined as the risk that the Group will encounter difficulty in meeting obligations associated
with financial liabilities that are settled by delivering cash or another financial asset. Liquidity risk arises
because of the possibility that the Group might be unable to meet its payment obligations when they fall
due under both normal and stressed circumstances. To limit this risk, management has arranged
diversified funding sources in addition to its core deposit base, and adopted a policy of managing assets
with liquidity in mind and of monitoring future cash flows and liquidity on a daily basis. The Group has
developed internal control processes and contingency plans for managing liquidity risk. This incorporates
an assessment of expected cash flows and the availability of high grade collateral which could be used
to secure additional funding if required.
The Group maintains a portfolio of highly marketable and diverse assets that are assumed to be easily
liquidated in the event of an unforeseen interruption of cash flow. The Group also has committed lines of
credit that it can access to meet liquidity needs. In addition, the Group maintains a statutory deposit with
the Central Bank of Barbados.
Analysis of financial liabilities by remaining contractual maturities
The table below summarises the maturity profile of the undiscounted cash flows of the Group’s financial
liabilities as of March 31, 2016 and March 31, 2015 on the basis of their earliest possible contractual
maturity.
