After entering the securitization business, Delta Bank increases its cash efficiency by selling off the lower risk portions of the portfolio credit risk. This process ___ risk on the residual pieces of the credit portfolio, and as a result it ___ return on equity for the bank.
From the bank's point of view, repricing the retail debt portfolio will introduce risks of fluctuations in:
I. Duration
II. Loss given default
III. Interest rates
IV. Bank spreads
Gamma Bank provides a $100,000 loan to Big Bath retail stores at 5% interest rate (paid annually). The loan is collateralized with $55,000. The loan also has an annual expected default rate of 2%, and loss given default at 50%. In this case, what will the bank's exposure at default (EAD) be?
Which of the following statements about the interest rates and option prices is correct?
For which one of the following four reasons do corporate customers use foreign exchange derivatives?
I. To lock in the current value of foreign-denominated receivables
II. To lock in the current value of foreign-denominated payables
III. To lock in the value of expected future foreign-denominated receivables
IV. To lock in the value of expected future foreign-denominated payables
Alpha Bank determined that Delta Industrial Machinery Corporation has 2% change of default on a one-year no-payment of USD $1 million, including interest and principal repayment. The bank charges 3% interest rate spread to firms in the machinery industry, and the risk-free interest rate is 6%. Alpha Bank receives both interest and principal payments once at the end the year. Delta can only default at the end of the year. If Delta defaults, the bank expects to lose 50% of its promised payment. Six months after Alpha Bank provides USD $1 million loan to the Delta Industrial Machinery Corporation, a new competitor enters the machinery industry, causing Delta to adjust its prices and mark down the value of its inventory. Hence, the probability of defaultincreases from 2% to 10% and the loss given default increases from 50% to 75%. If Alpha Bank can reprice the loan, what should the new rate be?
Most loans and deposits in the interbank market have a maturity of:
Which one of the following statements about futures contracts is correct?
I. Futures contracts are subject to the same risks as the underlying instruments.
II. Futures contracts have additional interest rate risk die to the future delivery date.
III. Futures contracts traded in a clearinghouse system are exposed to credit risk with numerous counterparties.
According to the largest global poll of foreign exchange market participants, which one of the following four global financial institutions was the most active participant in the global foreign exchange market?
A bank customer chooses a mortgage with low initial payments and payments that increase over time because the customer knows that she will have trouble making payments in the early years of the loan. The bank makes this type of mortgage with the same default assumptions uses for ordinary mortgages, thus underestimating the risk of default and becoming exposed to:
