Managing Risk at Commercial Bank 1. Interest Rate Risk Interest Rate Risk (IRR) is the impact on interest income of the Bank due to possible changes in market interest rates as compared to current level. IRR constitutes the most significant component of market risk exposure of the Banking Book. Hence, the Bank monitors IRR on an ongoing basis giving due consideration to re-pricing characteristics of all assets and liabilities. Rate shocks of different magnitudes are applied
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short-term deposits. This should present uncertain movements for their floating rate liabilities. The other 50% is in long-term fixed-rate mortgages making the SI susceptible to any rise in interest rates. If interest rates started rising it would reduce it’s net interest margin. The risk will be further realized because interest rates have already declined to their lowest levels in a decade. More important it is almost a guarantee that interest rates will start to rise due to a weakened dollar and
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------------------------------------------------- 1.0 INTRODUCTORY PART 1.1 Introduction: Every Financial Institute irrespective of its size is generally exposed to market liquidity and interest rate risks in connection with the process of Asset Liability Management. Failure to identify the risks associated with business and failure to take timely measures in giving a sense of direction threatens the very existence of the institution. It is, therefore, important that the strategic decision makers
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ESSENTIALS of Financial Risk Management Karen A. Horcher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ESSENTIALS of Financial Risk Management Essentials Series The Essentials Series was created for busy business advisory and corporate professionals. The books in this series were designed so that these busy professionals can quickly acquire knowledge and skills in core business areas. Each book provides need-to-have fundamentals for those professionals who must: Get up to speed quickly, because they
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with Porsche is a privately owned company controlled by the Porsche and Piéch family. They hold all the 8.75 million voting shares while mainly large institutional investors hold the other 8.75 million non-voting shares. Despite the fact that stock exchange and analysts’ requests more frequent and more detailed financial reporting Porsche is not willing to meet these needs. Another questionable input is the management compensation that only depend on Porsches profitability from year to year and not
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implemented steps toward liberalizing its exchange rate policy; however, a floating Yuan has created uncertainty concerning its impact on China’s economy. While it is likely that allowing the Yuan to appreciate against the US dollar will result in undesirable impacts for China such as deflation, a reduction of foreign direct investment (FDI), and a decline in exports, we believe China will, and should, continue a tempered liberalization of its exchange rate policy. This is necessitated by the potential
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international perspective (Fanchiotti, Canal, & Zúñiga,2002).Financial traders consider past information to establish the future movements of currency and the behavior of currency markets. Foreign exchange portfolios are some of the most viable investments (Mizen, 2003). Nevertheless, investors need to take precaution as they can accrue massive losses because of currency exchange exposures. To this end, investors can trade in
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exploit them. 3. Risk Management covers credit decision making, performance assessment, pricing, capital computation, provisioning etc. 4. Risk Management covers the following: a. It assesses what could go wrong b. It determines which risks are important to be dealt with c. It implements strategies to deal with those risks. 5. Risk Management is not – d. A guarantee to avoid all future losses e. Limited to compliance and disclosure requirements f
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| |[pic] | FS3032 – Capital Markets MODULE HANDBOOK 2014/15 - Semester 1 Module Lecturer: Dr Phan Tran Trung Dzung Faculty of Banking and Finance / FTU fandzung@ftu.edu.vn This module is supported by Weblearn – students
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Economics of Currency Predicting currency movements is perhaps one of the hardest exercises in economics as it has many variables affecting the market movement. However, over a longer term currency movement is determined by following factors: Balance of Payments: It is the sum of current account and capital account of a country and is an external account of a country with other countries. Both current account and capital account play a role in determining the movement of the currency: o Current Account
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