Assignment: Types of Risks Facing Financial Institutions
1. Suppose a bank has the following assets and liabilities on its balance sheet:
Loans $100 million 3.75% 5 years
CDs $100 million 3.15% 3 years
All rates are locked in for the period of time specified.
a. Is the bank long-funded or short-funded? What types of interest rate risk is the bank exposed to? Explain.
b. What is the bank's spread?
c. If interest rates are expected to rise by 0.5% in Year 3, what will happen to the bank's spread?
d. If interest rates are expected to decline by 0.25% in Year 3, what will happen to the bank's spread?
2. The Bank made a $750,000 loan (in £). The terms of the loan require annual interest payments at 2.50% per year, to be fully repaid in two years (June 2020). At the time the loan was made the US dollar was worth £0.833. The bank funded the loan with $750,000 certificate of deposits with a 1-year term and rate of 1.75%.
a. What is the Direct Quote?
b. Is the transaction short-funded or long-funded? Explain.
c. When the loan matures in two years the anticipated exchange rate is £1.00 = $1.33. Calculate the Net Interest Income at the end of Year 2, assuming interest rates do not change.
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