Finance Homework - Financial Transaction Risks

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Week Four Individual Assignment: Financial Transaction Risks

 

Describe the risk exposure(s) in the following financial transactions. Identify which transactions are influenced by interest rates or interest income. (CAUTION: Some can be influenced by both!)

Risk Types:  Interest rate risk, Credit risk, Technology risk, Foreign exchange rate risk, Country or sovereign risk

 

 

 

Financial Transactions

Risk Type

Describe and justify risk type

Interest Rate or Interest Income?

A bank finances a $10 million, six-year fixed-rate commercial loan by selling one-year certificate of deposit.

 

 

 

An insurance company invests its policy premiums in a long-term municipal bond portfolio.

 

 

 

A French bank sells two-year fixed-rate notes to finance a two-year fixed-rate loan to a British entrepreneur.

 

 

 

A Japanese bank acquires an Austrian bank to facilitate clearing operations.

 

 

 

A bond dealer uses his own equity to buy Mexican debt on the less developed country (LDC) bond market.

 

 

 

A securities firm sells a package of mortgage loans as mortgage-backed securities.

 

 

 

Describe the features of the method you would choose to measure the interest risks identified.

 

 

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