CHAPTER 23

Risk Management in Financial Institutions

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We examine how financial institutions manage credit risk, default risk, etc. We explore the tools available to managers to measure these risks and strategies to reduce them. Topics include:
Managing Credit Risk Managing Interest-Rate Risk

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Managing Credit Risk

A major part of the business of financial institutions is making loans, and the major risk with loans is that the borrow will not repay. Credit risk is the risk that a borrower will not repay a loan according to the terms of the loan, either defaulting entirely or making late payments of interest or principal.
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Managing Credit Risk

Once again, the concepts of adverse selection and moral hazard will provide our framework to understand the principles financial managers must follow to minimize credit risk, yet make successful loans.

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Managing Credit Risk

Solving Asymmetric Information Problems:
1. Screening and Monitoring: collecting reliable information about prospective borrowers. This has also lead some institutions to specialize in regions or industries, gaining expertise in evaluating particular firms also involves requiring certain actions, or prohibiting others, and then periodically verifying that the borrower is complying with the terms of the loan contract.
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Managing Credit Risk

Specialization in Lending helps in screening. It is easier to collect data on local firms and firms in specific industries. It allows them to better predict problems by having better industry and location knowledge.

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Monitoring and Enforcement also helps. Financial institutions write protective covenants into loans contracts and actively manage them to ensure that borrowers are not taking risks at their expense.

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Managing Credit Risk

2. Long-term Customer Relationships: past information contained in checking accounts, savings accounts, and previous loans provides valuable information to more easily determine credit worthiness.

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Managing Credit Risk

3. Loan Commitments: arrangements where the bank agrees to provide a loan up to a fixed amount, whenever the firm requests the loan. 4. Collateral: a pledge of property or other assets that must be surrendered if the terms of the loan are not met ( the loans are called secured loans).
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5. Compensating Balances: reserves that a borrower must maintain in an account that act as collateral should the borrower default. 6. Credit Rationing:
lenders will refuse to lend to some borrowers, regardless of how much interest they are willing to pay,

or
lenders will only finance part of a project, requiring that the remaining part come from equity financing.
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Managing Interest-Rate Risk

Financial institutions, banks in particular, specialize in earning a higher rate of return on their assets relative to the interest paid on their liabilities. As interest rate volatility increased in the last 20 years, interest-rate risk exposure has become a concern for financial institutions.
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Managing Interest-Rate Risk

To see how financial institutions can measure and manage interest-rate risk exposure, we will examine the balance sheet for First National Bank (next slide). We will develop two tools, (1) Income Gap Analysis and (2) Duration Gap Analysis, to assist the financial manager in this effort.

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Risk Management Association home page http://www.rmahq.org

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Income Gap Analysis: Determining Rate Sensitive Items for First National Bank
Assets
assets with maturity less than one year variable-rate mortgages short-term commercial loans portion of fixed-rate mortgages (say 20%)

Liabilities
money market deposits variable-rate CDs short-term CDs federal funds short-term borrowings portion of checkable deposits (10%) portion of savings (20%)

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Income Gap Analysis: Determining Rate Sensitive Items for First National Bank
Rate-Sensitive Assets = $5m + $ 10m + $15m + 20% $20m = $5m + $25m + $5m + $10m + 10% $15m + 20% $15m RSL = $49.5m if i 5% Asset Income Liability Costs Income = +5% $32.0m = +5% $49.5m = $1.6m $ 2.5 = +$ 1.6m = +$ 2.5m = $ 0.9m
Estimate of % of checkable deposits and savings accounts that will experience rate change

RSA = $32m
Rate-Sensitive Liabs

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Income Gap Analysis

If RSL > RSA, i results in: NIM , Income

GAP = RSA RSL = $32.0m $49.5m = $17.5m

Income = GAP i = $17.5m 5% = $0.9m This is essentially a short-term focus on interest-rate risk exposure. A longer-term focus uses duration gap analysis.

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Duration Gap Analysis

Owners and managers do care about the impact of interest rate exposure on current net income. They are also interested in the impact of interest rate changes on the market value of balance sheet items and on net worth.

The concept of duration, which first appeared in chapter 3, plays a role here.
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Duration Gap Analysis

Duration Gap Analysis: measures the sensitivity of a banks current year net income to changes in interest rate. Requires determining the duration for assets and liabilities, items whose market value will change as interest rates change. Lets see how this looks for First National Bank.

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Duration of First National Bank's Assets and Liabilities

Duration Gap Analysis

The basic equation for determining the change in market value for assets or liabilities is:

or:

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Duration Gap Analysis

Consider a change in rates from 10% to 11%. Using the value from Table 23.1, we see: Assets:

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Duration Gap Analysis

Liabilities:

Net Worth:

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Duration Gap Analysis

For a rate change from 10% to 11%, the net worth of First National Bank will fall, changing by $1.6m. Recall from the balance sheet that First National Bank has Bank capital totaling $5m. Following such a dramatic change in rate, the capital would fall to $3.4m.

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Strategies for Managing Interest-Rate Risk
In example above, shorten duration of bank assets or lengthen duration of bank liabilities To completely immunize net worth from interest-rate risk, set DURgap = 0

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Problems with GAP Analysis
Assumes slope of yield curve unchanged and flat, but http://stockcharts.com/charts/YieldCurve.html Manager estimates % of fixed rate assets and liabilities that are rate sensitive

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Chapter Summary
Managing Credit Risk: basic techniques for managing relationships and rationing credit were reviewed. Managing Interest-Rate Risk: the essential techniques of measuring interest-rate risk for both income and capital affects were presented.

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