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Timely Wholesale Funding Strategies: Using Floored Advances to Hedge Against Falling Interest Rates

Getting Past the "D" Word to Better Manage Balance Sheet Risk

Seattle Bank Yield Curve Optimal Points Analysis

Select Forecasts of Key Economic Statistics

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Timely Wholesale Funding Strategies: Using Floored Advances to Hedge Against Falling Interest Rates

By John P. Biestman and Brett Manning

Running your financial institution on the basis of forecasting interest rates is a road fraught with peril. True, the yield curve has inverted and the implied forward yield curve is pointing in the downward direction. Still, the fact remains that you have no control over the direction of interest rates. More >





Getting Past the "D" Word to Better Manage Balance Sheet Risk

By Jeff Reynolds, Managing Director, Darling Consulting Group, Inc.

When I first left the field of audit and started with Darling Consulting Group back in 1996, I was amazed at how little I really knew about managing balance sheet risk. As I grew into the job, I was fascinated by how some banks used off-balance-sheet contracts to manage risk and how some just couldn’t get past the “D” (derivative) word and take advantage of how hedging instruments could complement their organic business model. More >

 
Web Seminar: Introducing the Floored Advance

 
 



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