1. Chapter 13 – Bank Risk Management & Performance
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2. 13-1a Credit Risk in General
How do lenders evaluate credit risk?
The 5C’s of credit risk
Character
Capacity
Capital
Collateral
Conditions
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3. 13-1b Credit Risk with Consumers
3 major credit bureaus in the United States
Equifax
Experian
TransUnion
Credit report = credit history
Credit score = numerical value that is a measurement of how an individual has used credit in the past
FICO Scores
Fair, Isaac and Company: the entity that first created these scores
FICO score range:
The higher the FICO score, the lower the borrower’s credit risk
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4. 13-1c Credit Risk with Business Borrowers
Lenders attempt to minimize credit risk using the following techniques:
Specialized lending
Understanding cash flows
Secondary sources of repayment
Collateral
Compensating Balance
Personal Guarantees
Close monitoring
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5. 13-2a Managing Interest Rate Risk
As interest rates change, bank assets and other investments change
Interest rates do not remain constant
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6. 13-2b Gap Analysis Measure interest rate exposure:
Compare amount of interest rate–sensitive assets a bank has with the amount of interest rate–sensitive liabilities
Gap = IRSA - IRSL
They want to hold more interest rate–sensitive assets than interest rate–sensitive liabilities because as interest rates increase, they will experience an increase in their income (more interest-sensitive assets) more than an increase in their interest expense.
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7. 13-2c Duration Analysis
Duration measures the time it takes for the bondholder or debt holder to recover the price paid for the bond or amount lent from all of the discounted future cash flows from the bond or debt instrument.
The discount rate for calculating the present value of the cash flow is the bond’s or debt instrument’s yield. So, if the bond price and yield changes, so does its duration.
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8. 13-2d Banks, Duration, & Interest Rate Risk
The duration gap is the difference between the weighted (by the assets) duration of the bank’s assets and the weighted (by the liabilities) duration of the liabilities, adjusted for the bank’s asset size.
If the duration gap is zero, interest rate changes affect the value of the bank’s assets and liabilities equally, leaving the value of the bank unchanged.
Thus, bank management has to make a decision about the size of the duration gap it wants. By doing so, bank management is deciding how much interest rate risk they want to face.
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9. 13-3a Sources of Liquidity
Liquidity risk is one of the oldest risks in factional reserve banking.
Sources of Liquidity
Primary Reserves
Secondary Reserves
Bank loan securities
To lower liquidity risk, a bank has to accept lower returns. But those lower returns could hurt its profitability and thus its ability to continue in business.
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10. 13-3b Solutions to lack of Liquidity
Some of the downsides to these solutions can be very costly indeed.
Borrow federal funds
Borrow from the FED
Increase deposits
Sell liquid assets
Issue commercial paper
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11. 13-3c How Much Liquidity is Enough?
Liquidity coverage ratio: compares the level of easy-to- sell liquid assets to the total cash outflows that are expected over the next 30 calendar days
Basel III - This requires banks to maintain a certain level of stable funding that depends on the liquidity of their assets and the extent of off-balance exposures over the next 12 months. The goal is a ratio equal to or greater than 1.
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12. 13-4 Other Risks Operational risk Foreign exchange and country risk
Market risk
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13. 13-5a Income Statement
A bank’s income statement looks at explicit revenues and expenses over a specific time period, usually a year.
The different parts of an income statement are:
Gross interest income
Gross interest expense
Noninterest income
Noninterest expense
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14. 13-5c Balance Sheet Return on assets (ROA) Return on equity (ROE)
A higher ROA suggests that the bank is generating more net income
A higher ROE suggests that the bank is generating more net income
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