The issuing bank, in return for a fee, guarantees the repayment of a loan received by its
customer or the fulfillment of a contract made by its customer to a third party.
(19) A relatively new type of credit derivative is a CDO which stands for
__________________.
(20) 24. Lenders can set aside a group of loans on their balance sheet, issue bonds and
pledge the loans as collateral against the bonds in ____________ . These usually stay
on the banks balance sheet as liabilities.
(21) Debt instruments issued by cities, states and other political entities and which are
exempt from federal taxes are collectively known as _____________________ .
(22) __________________ is the risk that the company whose bonds the financial
institution owns may retire the entire issue of
corporate bonds in advance of their maturity leaving the bank with the
risk of earnings losses resulting from reinvesting the cash at lower interest rates.
(23) The _________________________ is the total difference between its sources and
uses of funds. Answer: liquidity gap
(24) The oldest approach to meeting liquidity needs which relies on the sale of liquid
assets to meet liquidity demands is called
_________________________.
(25) _________________________ are the stable base of deposited funds that are not
highly sensitive to movements in market interest rates and tend to remain with a
depository institution.
(26) When financial institutions tempt customers by paying postage both ways in bankby-mail services or by offering free gifts such as teddy bears, they are practicing
___________.
(27) When a customer is charged based on the number and kinds of services used, with
the customers that use a number of services being charged less or having some fees
waived, this is called
__________________ pricing.
(28) __________________ is the amount in excess of par value paid by the bank's
shareholders.
(29) Core capital such as common stock, surplus, undivided profits, qualifying
noncumulative preferred stock, etc. is referred to as
__________________ capital as defined by the Basel agreement.
(30)
The largest component of capital among banks is ____________.
31A(n)______________________ loan is a short- or medium-term loan repayable in
two or more consecutive payments, usually monthly or quarterly.
32Household borrowings tend to be ______________________. Consumers are
more concerned about the size of the debt repayments than the interest rate charged.
33automobiles, home appliances, furniture, business equipment and other durable
goods by financing the receivables that dealers take on when they write installment
contracts to cover customer purchases.
34A third financial statement used in addition to the income statement and balance
sheet by lenders is
the It is required by FASB and is usually readily available from borrowers.
2 True/False Questions
(1) According to the textbook, banks are those financial institutions that today offer the
widest range of financial services of any business firm in the economy.
(2) The role performed by banks in the economy in which they transform savings into
credit is known as the intermediation role.
(3) The aging of the population means less savings in the economy for banks to work
with, according to the textbook.
(4) Banks which offer virtually all financial services are known as universal banks.
(5) In the United States, fixed fees charged for deposit insurance, regardless of how risky
a bank is, led to a problem known as moral hazard.
(6) When the Federal Reserve buys T-bills through its open market operations, it causes
the growth of bank deposits and loans to decrease.
(7) Loans and leases are financial outputs on a financial institution's balance sheet or
Report of Condition.
(8) Off balance sheet items for a bank are fee generating transactions which are not
recorded on their balance sheet.
(9) A bank's ROA equals its ROE times the ratio of total assets divided by total equity
capital.
(10) In the textbook the ratio of pre tax net operating income to total operating revenues
is described as a measure of the effectiveness of a financial insitution's expense-control
efficiency. Answer: True
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represent securities a bank decides to sell because they have declined in value.
(12) Usually the principal goal of asset-liability management is to maximize or at least
stabilize a bank's margin or spread. Answer: True
(13) A liability-sensitive bank will experience an increase in its net interest margin if
interest rates rise.
(14) A futures hedge against interest-rate changes generally requires a bank to take an
opposite position in the futures market from its current position in the cash market.
(15) The long hedge in financial futures contracts is most likely to be used in situations
where a bank would suffer losses due to rising interest rates.
(16) The buyer of a loan participation must watch both the borrower and the seller bank
closely.
(17) In a CMO, the different tiers (or tranches) of security purchasers face the same
prepayment risk.
(18) Most loans that banks sell off their balance sheets carry interest
rates that usually are connected to long-term interest rates (such as the 30-year Treasury
bond rate).
(19) Prepayment risk on securitized assets generally increases when interest rates rise.
(20) When a bank irrevocably guarantees a commercial paper issue, the bank's credit
rating substitutes for the borrower's credit rating.
(21) Borrowed liquidity (liability) management is less risky for a financial institution than
is asset conversion.
(22) Most liquidity problems in banking arise from inside a bank, not from its customers.
(23) Deposits owned by commercial banks and held with other banks are called
correspondent deposits.
(24) The number one factor households consider in selecting a bank to hold their
checking account is, according to recent studies cited in this chapter, low fees and low
minimum balance.
(25) When a bank temporarily offers higher than average interest rates or lower than
average customer fees in order to attract new business they are practicing conditional
pricing.
(26) One fundamental purpose for regulating capital is to limit losses to the federal
government arising from deposit insurance claims.
(27) Under the international capital (Basel) agreement Tier 2 capital
must be raised to a minimum of 4 percent of risk-weighted assets.
(28) Recent research suggests that interest-rate contracts display considerably less risk
exposure than do foreign-currency contracts.
29 Lenders in the consumer loan field prefer to measure a borrowing customer's
income by the amount of take-home pay.
30The "right of offset" allows a bank to sell a customer's property to the highest
bidder to repay a customer's loan if the loan is in default.
31If a bank's agent visits a dealer using floorplanning and finds any inventory items
sold for which the bank providing financing has not received payment, the loan will be
immediately foreclosed upon.
32In a period of rising interest rates the times-prime method causes the customer's
loan rate to rise faster than the prime-plus method.
3 Multiple Choice Questions
(1) Drew Davis goes to his local bank to get help developing a financial plan and making
investment decisions. Which of the more recent services banks offer is Drew taking
advantage of ?
A) Getting a consumer loan
B) Getting financial advice
C) Managing cash
D) Getting venture capital services
E) Buying a retirement plan
(2) Jonathan Robbins has a bank account in a bank that does not have a physical branch.
Jonathan does all of his banking business over the internet. What type of bank does
Jonathan have his account at?
A) Virtual Bank
B) Mortgage Bank
C) Community Bank
D) Affiliated Bank
E) None of the above
(3) Banks are regulated for which of the reasons listed below?
A) Banks are leading repositories of the public's savings. B) Banks have the power to
create money. C) Banks provide businesses and individuals with loans that support
A) $300 B) $200 C) $400 D) $150 E) None of the above 22An account at a bank
that carries a fixed maturity date with a fixed interest rate and which often carries a
penalty for early withdrawal of money is called:
A) Demand deposit
B) Transaction deposit
C) Time deposit
D) Money market mutual deposit
E) None of the above
23The risk that a customer the bank has entered into a contract with will fail to pay
or to perform, forcing the bank to find a replacement contract that may be less
satisfactory is what form of risk listed below?
A) Counterparty risk B) Interest-rate risk C) Operating risk
D) Credit risk E) Liquidity risk
24A bank has a profit margin of 5 percent, an asset utilization ratio of 11 percent , an
equity multiplier of 12 and a retention ratio of 60 percent. What is this bank's ICGR?
A) 6.6 percent B) 3.96 percent C) 7.2 percent D) .33 percent E) None of the above
25A bank has $200 million in assets in the 0 percent risk-weight category. It has
$400 million in assets in the 20 percent risk-weight category. It has $1000 million in
assets in the 50 percent risk-weight category and has $1000 million in assets in the 100
percent risk-weight category. This bank has $96 million in Tier 1 capital and $48 million
in Tier 2 capital. What is this bank's ratio of Tier 1 capital to risk assets?
A) 6.08 percent B) 3.04 percent C) 9.11 percent D) 5.54 percent E) None of the above
26A customer seeks a $150,000 home mortgage. The bank requires the customer to
pay 1 points up front. How much of the loan is actually available to the customer?
A) $150,000 B) $152,625 C) $147,375 D) $148,000 E) None of the above 27 In
order to be eligible for purchase by FNMA a home mortgage cannot have a maturity of
less than 10 years nor more than:
A) 25 years B) 30 years C) 35 years D) 40 years E) None of the above
27A firm submits their financial records to a bank. Upon
examination, the bank discovers that this firm has $500 in cash, $2500 in accounts
receivables, $1000 in inventory, $5000 in plant and equipment and that their assets
totaled $9000. In addition this bank discovered that the firm had $2000 in current
liabilities, $2500 in long term debt and $4500 in net worth. Finally this bank discovered
that this firm had $20,000 in net sales and $2000 in net income. What is this firms
leverage ratio?
A) 22.50%
B) 44.44%
C) 50.00%
D) 88.89%
E) None of the above
28A firm submits their financial records to a bank. Upon
examination, the bank discovers that this firm has $500 in cash, $2500 in accounts
receivables, $1000 in inventory, $5000 in plant and equipment and that their assets
totaled $9000. In addition this bank discovered that the firm had $2000 in current
liabilities, $2500 in long term debt and $4500 in net worth. Finally this bank discovered
that this firm had $20,000 in net sales and $2000 in net income. What is this firms acid
test ratio?
A) 1.00
B) 2.00
C) 0.33
D) 3.00
E) 1.50
4 Short Answer
(1) The term bank has been applied broadly over the years to include a diverse set of
financial-service institutions, which offer different financial service packages. Identify as
many of the different kinds of banks as you can. How do the banks you have
identified compare to the largest banking group of all the commercial banks? Why do
you think so many different financial firms have been called banks? How might this
terminological confusion affect financial-service customers?
(2) What is monetary policy?
(3) What factors influence the stock price of a financial-services corporation?
(4) What makes it so difficult to correctly forecast interest rate changes?
(5) What is a long hedge in financial futures? A short hedge?
(6) What advantages do sales of loans have for lending institutions trying to raise funds?
(7) What is a credit swap? For what kinds of situations was it developed?
(8) What kinds of assets are most amenable to the securitization process?
(9) What are the principal sources from which the supply of liquidity comes?
(10) Which deposits are the least costly for depository institutions? The most costly?
(11) What are the most significant differences between Basel I and Basel II? Explain the
importance of the concepts of internal risk assessment, VAR, and market discipline
12In what ways is a real estate loan unique compared to other kinds of bank loans?
13 How is the loan rate figured on a home mortgage loan? What are the key factors
or variables?
14What are contingent liabilities and why might they be important in deciding
whether to approve or disapprove a business loan request?
5 Calculation
(1) Suppose a bank has an allowance for loan losses of $1.25 million at the beginning of
the year, charges current income for a $250,000 provision for loan losses, charges off
worthless loans of $150,000, and recovers $50,000 on loans previously charged off. What
will be the balance in the bank's allowance for loan losses at year-end?
(2) Suppose a bank has an ROA of 0.80 percent and an equity multiplier of 12x. What is
its ROE? Suppose this bank's ROA falls to 0.60 percent. What size equity multiplier must
it have to hold its ROE unchanged?
(3) Suppose that a thrift institution has an average asset duration of 2.5 years and an
average liability duration of 3.0 years. If the bank holds total assets of $560 million and
total liabilities of $467 million, does it have a
significant duration gap? If interest rates rise, what will happen to the value of the bank's
net worth?
(4) A bank plans to borrow $55 million in the money market at a current interest rate of
4.5 percent. However, the borrowing rate will float with market conditions. To protect
itself the bank has purchased an interest-rate cap of 5 percent to cover this borrowing. If
money market interest rates on these funds suddenly climb to 5.5 percent as the
borrowing begins, how much in total interest will the bank owe and how much of an
interest rebate will it receive assuming the borrowing is only for one month?
(5) Suppose a corporate bond an investment officer would like to purchase for her bank
has a before-tax yield of 8.98 percent and the bank is in the 35 percent federal income tax
bracket. What is the bond's after-tax gross yield? What after tax rate of return must a
prospective loan generate to be competitive with the corporate bond? Does a loan have
some advantages for a lending institution that a corporate bond would not have?
(6) Suppose that a thrift institutions liquidity division estimates that it holds $19 million
in hot money deposits and other IOUs against which it
will hold an 80 percent liquidity reserve, $54 million in vulnerable funds against which it
plans to hold a 25 percent reserve, and $112 million in stable or core funds against which
it will hold a 5 percent liquidity reserve. The thrift expects its loans to grow 8 percent
annually; its loans currently stand at $117 million, but have recently reached $132
million. If reserve requirements on liabilities currently stand at 3 percent, what is this
depository institutions total liquidity requirement?
(7) A bank determines from an analysis of its cost-accounting figures that for each $500
minimum-balance checking account it sells account processing and other operating costs
will average $4.87 per month and overhead expenses will run an average of $1.21 per
month. The bank hopes to achieve a profit margin over these particular costs of 10
percent of total monthly costs. What monthly fee should the bank charge a customer who
opens one of these checking accounts?
8Mary Cantrary is offered a $1,200 loan for a year to be paid back in equal quarterly
installments of $300 each. If Mary is offered the loan at 8 percent simple interest, how
much in total interest charges will she pay? Would Mary be better off (in terms of lower
interest cost) if she were offered the $1,200 at 6 percent simple interest with only one
principal payment when the loan reaches maturity? What advantage would this
second set of loan terms have over the first set of loan terms?
9In order to help fund a loan request of $10 million for one year from one of its best
customers, Lonestar Bank sold negotiable CDs to its business customers in the amount of
$6 million at a promised annual yield of 5.75 percent and borrowed $4 million in the
Federal funds market from other banks at todays prevailing interest rate of 5.40 percent.
Credit investigation and recordkeeping costs to process this loan application were an
estimated $25,000. The Credit Analysis Division recommends a minimal 1 percent risk
premium on this loan and a minimal profit margin of one fourth of a percentage point.
The bank prefers using cost plus loan pricing in this cases. What loan rate would it
charge?
6 Essay
(1) How about the future developments of E-bank activities according to your
viewpoint ?
(2) What made Chinese commercial banks to be the best in the world since 2008 ? Please
explain it .
(3) Regulated to death and the lessons from subprime credit crises in
America in 2008.
(4) Please explain the size effect in banking industry and give some advice on chinese
banking system reconstruction .
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