Liquidity Management
Liquidity Management 2
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Regulatory liquidity is the legal reserve that must be maintained in compliance with Regulations D and M of the Federal Reserve System. These regulations establish the minimum reserve requirements on domestic deposits and transactions undertaken by foreign branches with member banks and other United States residents. There are three types of legal reserve available to institutions: vault cash, balances at the Federal Reserve banks and pass-through accounts. Pass-through accounts are balances maintained by depository institutions that are not member banks in one of the following: an institution that maintains required reserves at a Federal Reserve Bank; a Federal Home Loan Bank; the National Credit Union Administration Central Liquidity Facility; an institution authorized by the Federal Reserve Board to pass through required reserves. Reserve requirements are based on net transaction amounts, gross nonpersonal time deposits and Eurocurrency liabilities. Net transaction amounts are defined as gross transaction accounts minus the sum of cash items in the process of collection and balances subject to immediate withdrawal due from other depository institutions located in the United States. These subtractions prevent the double counting of balances between depository institutions. As of 1990, most depository institutions were required to maintain reserves of three percent on the first $40.5 million in transaction accounts, and 12 percent on balances
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e often fixed-rates over long periods of time. While the recent trend toward variable rates offers some protection against interest rate risk, the bank faces interest rate risk from its very structuring. Credit risk arises from the default risk on loans or investments, while liquidity and funding risk arises from mismatches in cash inflows and outflows, or in maturities of assets and liabilities. Credit risk at this bank is relatively low because of its emphasis on real estate loans, both commercial and residential. Real estate is a conservative investment that offers lenders strong collateral and real property that can be repossessed in the case of default. Such investments are considerably less risky than venture capital, for example, or investment in instruments that offer no real assets as collateral. However, the low level of risk is also generally associated with a relatively low level of return.
Managing interest rate risk, as well as credit risk and liquidity risk, requires asset and liability management. In order to provide effective asset and liability management that is provided in a cohesive manner, the bank has established an asset and liability management committee (ALCO) responsible for managing financial ri
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Approximate Word count = 4540
Approximate Pages = 18 (250 words per page)
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