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The assessment of interest rate risk is a very large topic at banks, thrifts, saving and loans, credit unions, and other finance companies, and among their regulators. The widely deployed CAMELS rating system assesses a financial institution's: Capital adequacy, Assets, Management Capability, Earnings, Liquidity, and Sensitivity to market risk.
The interest sensitivity gap was one of the first techniques used in asset liability management to manage interest rate risk. [1] The use of this technique was initiated in the middle 1970s in the United States when rising interest rates in 1975-1976 and again from 1979 onward triggered a banking crisis that later resulted in more than $1 trillion in losses when the Federal Deposit Insurance ...
1998 FED Trading and Capital Markets Activities Manual (section 3010 Interest-Rate Risk Management, pages 327 to 353) Has excellent coverage of Interest-Rate Risk Management, Camels Ratings and audit examination procedures. 1998 OCC Comptroller's Handbook on Interest Rate Risk; 1998 OCC OCC Risk Management of Financial Derivatives
Maturity risk, or duration risk, is closely related to interest rate risk. Bonds with a longer term carry more risk because there is a longer period during which interest rates may rise.
Repricing risk is the risk of changes in interest rate charged (earned) at the time a financial contract’s rate is reset. It emerges if interest rates are settled on liabilities for periods which differ from those on offsetting assets. Repricing risk also refers to the probability that the yield curve will move in a way that influence by the ...
Interest rate risk is also present with fixed-rate investments. This is the chance that rising interest rates will cause the prices of bonds to fall. This risk, also called market risk, can also ...
Dwindling inflation has finally allowed central banks to lower interest rates, pushing investors to lock in the relatively high yields available and finally delivering the "year of the bond" after ...
Its scope, though, includes the allocation and management of assets, equity, interest rate and credit risk management including risk overlays, and the calibration of company-wide tools within these risk frameworks for optimisation and management in the local regulatory and capital environment. Often an ALM approach passively matches assets ...