Consider a bank with $50 million in long-term mortgages as assets. It is financing these mortgages with

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Consider a bank with $50 million in long-term mortgages as assets. It is financing these mortgages with $30 million in short-term uninsured deposits and $20 million in insured deposits. To reduce its interest rate risk exposure and to lower its funding costs, the bank can segregate $35 million of the mortgages on the asset side of its balance sheet and pledge them as collateral backing a $30 million long-term MBB issue. Because the $30 million in MBBs is backed by mortgages worth $35 million, the mortgage-backed bond issued by the bank costs less to issue, in terms of required yield, than uninsured deposits. Thus, the FI can then use the proceeds of the $30 million bond issue to replace the $30 million of uninsured deposits. Show the bank’s balance sheet before and after the issue of the MBB. Balance Sheet
Balance sheet is a statement of the financial position of a business that list all the assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity and shareholder’s equity at a particular point of time. A balance sheet is also called as a “statement of financial...
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Financial Institutions Management A Risk Management Approach

ISBN: 978-0071051590

8th edition

Authors: Marcia Cornett, Patricia McGraw, Anthony Saunders

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