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Finance companies will be required to classify exposures on an individual or collective basis in one of three stages or regulatory categories based on their original credit risk at origination and the change in credit risk at reporting date since origination. SAMA encourages finance companies to adopt General Approach for measuring expected credit losses (ECL).
SAMA has provided mapping of IFRS 9 stages to regulatory categories (for the naming convention only keeping in view conservatism of IFRS 9) i.e. Regular, Special Monitoring Accounts, Substandard, Doubtful and Loss categories. The definitions given in SAMA previous circular on Provisions Guidelines (Circular No. 381000046352 dated 27/04/1438H) for these regulatory categories should no longer be used while applying the requirements of this new circular.
