Financial Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Saudi Debt Markets: A Governance-Based Framework for Vision 2030

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@article{1723749,
      author = {Wesam Talal Rasheed Abdel Qani},
      title = {Financial Risk Assessment and Mitigation in Saudi Debt Markets: A Governance-Based Framework for Vision 2030},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2026},
      volume = {10},
      number = {4},
      pages = {548-562},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1723749.pdf},
      abstract = {The investment program outlined in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 is expanding the strategic role of sovereign and corporate debt while increasing the importance of disciplined financial-risk governance. This review brings together evidence that has been published between 2020 and 2025 regarding financial risk in Saudi local-currency bonds, sukuk, corporate financing, market liquidity, and governance. It presents a governance-based framework in which risk is not seen as a series of separate exposures but as a transmission system connecting interest-rate repricing, refinancing, credit quality, secondary-market liquidity, external funding, concentration, sukuk structure, and the quality of disclosure. A structured integrative review was conducted using 30 peer-reviewed and authoritative institutional sources published between 2020 and 2025, with source identification and screening procedures informed by PRISMA principles. The synthesis reveals that resilience in the Saudi debt market relies on three conditions: credible governance at the issuer level, a liquid market infrastructure supported by a diversified group of investors, and coordinated oversight by sovereign and regulatory bodies. The review’s principal contribution is a governance-based framework that allocates risk ownership among boards, treasury functions, market intermediaries, regulators, and debt-management authorities; links leading indicators to escalation thresholds and corresponding actions; and integrates stress testing with disclosure, maturity management, liquidity safeguards, and Shari’ah governance. By doing so, the framework supports Vision 2030 in ensuring the continuity of financing without impeding productive leverage, while also identifying key research areas relating to issuer-level data, liquidity microstructure, and the resolution of sukuk distress.},
      month = {October},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV10I4-1723749}
  }