You are an investment banker advising a Eurobank with reference to a new international bond offering it is considering. The carries on are to be employed to fund Eurodollar loans to bank clients. What sort of bond instrument would you recommend that the bank consider issuing? Why?
Answer: As the Eurobank desires to use the bond carries on to finance Eurodollar loans that are floating-rate loans, the investment banker should propose that the bank issue FRNs, which are a variable rate instrument. So there will a correspondence among the interest rate the bank pays for funds and the interest rate it receives from its loans. For instance, if the bank often makes term loans at indexed to 3-month LIBOR, it might wish to issue FRNs, as well indexed to 3-month LIBOR.