"Credit Risk Management: Essential Capital Markets" is a training manual which will enable students, bankers, corporate financiers, and those already in the finance profession to gain an understanding of the basic information and principles of credit risk evaluation for corporate lending. Readers will learn to use those underlying principles to undertake an analysis of non-financial and financial risks when preparing a credit proposal. Since the best loans are those that do not present a problem during the repayment stage, the author focuses on elements relating to the proactive management of loans during their inception.