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Article: Interest rate risk hedging for asset-sensitive banks
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- Texas Banking
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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CopyrightCopyright Texas Banker Association Sep 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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'In a rising rate environment, the asset-sensitive bank reaps the benefits of its posture. Unfortunately, though, as rates decline, so do earnings'
Many community banks are asset sensitive and consequently exposed to declining interest rates. An asset sensitive bank has more repricing interest income than interest expense because of a high volume of variablerate loans, significant callable bond positions or a high volume of mortgage-backed securities and loans, for example.
During declining rates, not only do variable-rate loans reprise with the lower prime rate, but also callable and mortgage-backed securities prepayments increase, exacerbating the volume of downward repricing cash ...