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CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION:
Asset Liability management is very much importance for a bank. Banks are making profit
from various services provided to their customers. Banks profit is functions of revenue
earned form the assets and the cost incurred for the liability that has occurred for
acquiring funds for financing the assets. Proper management of bank assets and liabilities
can increase the profitability of the bank. The fuming of these loans and advances and
investments comes from liability. So the earnings of a bank ultimately depend on
liabilities. Banks have to incur costs for its liability. For example, they have to give
interest to the public and also to the lending institutions. So banks liability is not cost
free. Efficient use of liabilities depends on effective liability management. Effective
liability management indicates that the cost of the liability will be less and also it will less
volatile. But less cost and less volatility is inversely related. If we give our concentration
only to less cost fund, then the funds will be volatile. Again if we give our attention to
only to less volatility, then the cost of fund will be high because only the fixed deposit
has the characteristics of less volatility. So we have to make coordination between least
costs fund and least volatile fund.
ALM has mainly two components. One is asset management and the other is liability
management. Asset management deals with how a manager can appropriately handle the
assets of the bank and efficiently use the profitable opportunities. On the other hand,
liability management deals with the liability side of the balance sheet. A bank’s earning or
spread is the difference between the revenue generated mainly from the asset side of the
business and expense generated mainly from the liability side of the business. The foal of
liability management is to gain control over the bank’s funds sources.
Almost in every moment in our life we are confronted with different types of risk. Human
mind is programmed to learn to manage risk. Managing risk is unique and fundamental in
banking industry, because unlike other industry it is exposed to multi-dimensional risks
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that has aggravated with the advent of deregulation and globalization. No banking
industry in the world is isolated from the risks, and in this project paper my efforts should
concentrate on understanding and appreciating these risks specially managing asset and
liability so that I can learn more how can manage them efficiently, appropriately and in a
timely manner. The major risks that a bank encounters in its business are as follows:
This Project paper is based on “An Insight into the Asset Liability management of Mutual
Trust Bank Limited”. To manage the above risk effectively and to ensure sustainable
performance and good governance of the banking company, the following requirements
must be fulfilled:
Given the fact that an appropriate asset liability management system was required to
manage risk better.
Sample Bank:
Mutual Trust Bank Limited
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As my supervisor is very helpful and cooperative, I got some privilege to prepare this report. As
one of my friends is an employee of Mutual trust Bank, I have special opportunity to collect
important and sensitive data, which make this report different from others.
To identify the management of asset and liability of Mutual Trust Bank Ltd.
To analyze and find out degree of risks involved in each area.
To suggest how to manage this area’s risks for minimizing the risk.
1.5 METHODOLOGY:
To undertake the study in the light of research objectives, information both from the
primary and secondary sources are necessary. However, first, in order to build up
theoretical premise, standard textbooks, reference books, domestic and foreign journals
and other related literature have been collected from annual reports and other official
records of the banks.
The collected information has then been tabulated, analyzed and the findings thereof have
laid the basis of research report. Data processing and analysis has been done both
manually and by using computer. Tabular method, ratio analysis, and suitable statistical
tools and techniques have been used to operationally the research where required.
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There were some problems while this research is conducted. A wholehearted effort was
applied to overcome the limitations and to bring a reliable and fruitful result. In spite of
having the wholehearted effort, there exist some limitations, which acted as a barrier to
conduct the research. The limitations were—
1. The major problem faced while conducting the research was unavailability of
relevant data. No banks provided the costs of their particular liability. Even
some banks did not agree to give their annual reports.
2. No banks provided the cost components of their liabilities. That’s why the cost
of various liabilities is assumed on the basis of historical trend.
3. While utmost care has been given to cover every part of Asset Liability
Management, a few complex issues related to Market Risk have not been
covered in details.
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End of Chapter 1
CHAPTER 2
THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT
Traditionally, banks and insurance companies used accrual accounting for essentially all
their assets and liabilities. They would take on liabilities, such as deposits, life insurance
policies or annuities. They would invest the proceeds from these liabilities in assets such
as loans, bonds or real estate. All assets and liabilities were held at book value. Doing so
disguised possible risks arising from how the assets and liabilities were structured.
Asset Liability Management (ALM) is an integral part of Bank Management; and so, it is
essential to have a structured and systematic process for manage the Balance Sheet.
Banks must have a committee comprising of the senior management of the bank to make
important decisions related to the Balance Sheet of the Bank. The committee, typically
called the Asset Liability Committee (ALCO), should meet at least once every month to
analysis, review and formulate strategy to manage the balance sheet. In every ALCO
meeting, the key points of the discussion should be minted and the action points should
be highlighted to better position the bank’s balance sheet.
Asset Liability management is one of the pillars of banking- in fact the concept of Asset Liability
management is at the core of financial business. The importance of appropriate and effective
Asset Liability management has always been outlined by regulators, market operatives and
individuals and yet we hear of instances of failures in Asset Liability management mechanism-
the most notable amongst them the Barings Bank and Long Term Capital Management.
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The Asset Liability Risk Management system essentially focuses on risks that arise out of
liquidity and interest rate mismatches and management of Capital Adequacy. This aspect of risk
management has become increasingly important due to volatility that arises from a deregulated
market- driven environment. Here to the policy guideline, outlines all the areas that are required
to be covered through preciously laid down statement on Capital Adequacy, borrowing limits
commitment limits, loan deposit ratios and medium term funding ratio. The organization structure
and job responsibilities are also outlined and the globally accepted ALCO or The Asset Liability
Committee process is detailed. The ALCO process ensures that the management is constantly
apprised of the risks arising out of liquidity and interest rate mismatch and step can be taken
through this continuous monitoring of risk to manage it effectively.
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Over the last few years the Bangladesh’s financial markets have witnessed wide ranging
changes at fast pace. Intense competition for business involving both the assets and
liabilities, together with increasing volatility in the domestic interest rates as well as
foreign exchange rates, has brought pressure on the management of banks to maintain a
good balance among spreads, profitability and long-term viability. These pressures call
for structured and comprehensive measures and not just ad hoc action. The Management
of banks has to base their business decisions on a dynamic and integrated risk
management system and process, driven by corporate strategy. Banks are exposed to
several major risks in the course of their business - credit risk, interest rate risk, foreign
exchange risk, equity / commodity price risk, liquidity risk and operational risks.
Information is the key to the ALM process. Considering the large network of branches
and the lack of an adequate system to collect information required for ALM which
analyses information on the basis of residual maturity and behavioral pattern it will take
time for banks in the present state to get the requisite information. The problem of ALM
needs to be addressed by following an ABC approach i.e. analyzing the behavior of asset
and liability products in the top branches accounting for significant business and then
making rational assumptions about the way in which assets and liabilities would behave
in other branches. In respect of foreign exchange, investment portfolio and money market
operations, in view of the centralized nature of the functions, it would be much easier to
collect reliable information. The data and assumptions can then be refined over time as
the bank management gain experience of conducting business within an ALM
framework. The spread of computerization will also help banks in accessing data.
The guidelines given in this note mainly address Liquidity and Interest Rate risks. The
Asset Liability Committee (ALCO) is responsible for balance sheet (asset liability) risk
management. Managing the asset liability is the most important responsibility of a bank
as it runs the risks for not only the bank, but also the thousands of depositors who put
money into it.
To understand how a bank operates, first we examine the bank balance sheet, which lists
its assets and liabilities. As the name implies, this list balance, that is, it has the
characteristics that—
Furthermore, a bank’s balance sheet lists sources of bank’s funds (liabilities) and uses to
which they are pit (assets). Banks obtain funds by borrowing and by issuing other
liabilities such as deposits. They then use these funds to acquire assets such as securities
and loans. The revenue that banks receive from their holdings of securities and loans
covers the expenses of issuing liabilities and ideally yields a profit.
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Against the backing of the secured assets banks issue security paper to raise funds.
Securitizing assets requires a bank to set aside a group of income earning assets – such as
mortgages or consumer loans – and to sell securities against those assets in the open
market. For example, a bank disbursed loan for two years, so for two years these loans
are illiquid. Bank can issue stock for that amount and for two years. The result is that they
raise funds. The important issues are that—
So, we can say, securitization is the transformation of illiquid assets into security that is
tradable and further liquid. The important aspects are—
When banks are offering security, they offer return to investor less than their loan interest
but higher than the deposit return.
Positive effect on balance sheet: Due to of security backed by good loans bank
raises funds, part of which is kept as cash balance and most of which is disbursed
further as loan for good loan request and for further transformation. So banks risk
weighted assets as well as capital adequacy requirements decrease. The result is
that bank’s earning increases.
No opportunity cost of fund: Bank does not need to incur anything such as
borrowing or deposit collection for raising the funds. So there does not involve
any cost.
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If backed assets become bad loans then banks will loss those loans as well as has to pay
principal and interest tot the investors who bought the “security”. Any loans pledged
behind these securities must be held on the banks balance sheet until the security papers
reach maturity, which decreases the overall liquidity of the bank’s loan portfolio.
Moreover, with these loans remaining on its balance sheet the bank must meet the
regulatory imposed capital requirements to back the loans.
Loan selling is both with recourse i.e. if the buyer of the loan become unable to get the
money back from the borrower then the seller of the loan will be liable. It may be without
recourse i.e. the buyer of the loan will not get protection in case of being unable to collect
the loan. The advantages of loan selling are it reduces risk and reduces the pressure on
loan. The disadvantage of the loan selling is that due to market pressure; if one sells the
good loans, then it will create adverse impact on the financial position of the bank. Loan
selling is of following types—
First the bank is giving loan and then asks some other parties to participate in the process.
The participator must the outsider. The participator does not involve in the disbursement
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of the loan. The buyer of participation will face a substantial loss if the selling institution
or the borrower fails.
A loan strip is short dated pieces of a longer-term loan and often matures quickly—a few
days or weeks. It is striping some parentage of the loan and sells it to some other
institutions. The purchasing institution will be liable for the collection of that portion of
the loan. The difference between participation and striping is that in striping a
relationship between the buyer of the loan and the borrower creates.
It is a financial guarantee in the form of letter of credit. It is mainly practiced in the North
American countries. It is made of r two purposes. Performance bond guarantee: in the
developed market, nobody will purchase the security paper of any institution without
guarantee given by bank.
This note lays down broad guidelines in respect of interest rate and liquidity risks
management systems in banks which form part of the Asset-Liability Management
(ALM) function. The initial focus of the ALM function would be to enforce the risk
management discipline viz. managing business after assessing the risks involved. The
objective of good risk management programmes should be that these programmes will
evolve into a strategic tool for bank management
End of Chapter 2
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CHAPTER 3
ADMINISTRATION OF ALM
There is a separate department to manage asset and liability. The treasury department
maintains asset and liability of a bank.
3.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE:
CEO / MANAGING
DIRECTOR
Head of Head of
Head of Head of Head of Head of Head of
Consumer
Banking
Consumer Treasury Corporate Finance Credit Operations
Banking Banking
Money Market
Dealers
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3.2 To maintain asset and liability treasury department has a policy to follow. This
policy guideline is given below:
POLICY GUIDELINES:
3.2.1 Responsibility of the Board of Directors:
The overall responsibility of establishing broad business strategy, significant
policies and understanding significant risks of the bank rests with the Board of
Directors.
The internal as well as external audit reports will be sent to the board without any
intervention of the bank management and ensure that the management takes
timely and necessary actions as per the recommendations
Have periodic review meetings with the senior management to discuss the
effectiveness of the internal control system of the bank and ensure that the
management has taken appropriate actions as per the recommendations of the
auditors and internal control.
With governance & guidance from the Board of Directors the MANCOM will put
in place policies and procedures to identify, measure, monitor and control these
risks.
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The MANCOM will put in place an internal control structure in the banking
organization, which will assign clear responsibility, authority and reporting
relationship.
The MANCOM will monitor the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal
control system based on the bank’s established policy & procedure.
The MANCOM will review on a yearly basis the overall effectiveness of the
control system of the organization and provide a certification on a yearly basis to
the Board of Directors on the effectiveness of Internal Control policy, practice and
procedure
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The Committee:
As the Treasury Department is primarily responsible for Asset Liability
Management, ideally the Treasurer (or the CEO) is the Chairman of the ALCO
committee. The committee consists of the following key personnel of a bank:
The committee calls for a meeting once every month to set and review strategies on
ALM.
Key Agendas:
ALCO attends the following issues while managing Balance Sheet Risks:
i) Review of actions taken in previous ALCO.
ii) Economic and Market Status and Outlook.
iii) Liquidity Risk related to the Balance Sheet.
iv) Review of the price / interest rate structure.
v) Actions to be taken.
Effective risk assessment must identify and consider both internal and external
factors. Internal factors include complexity of the organization structure, the
nature of the Bank’s activities, the quality of personnel, organization changes and
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Risk assessment by Internal Control System differs from the business risk
management process, which typically focuses more on the review of business
strategies developed to maximize the risk/reward trade-off within the different
areas of the bank. The risk assessment by Internal Control focuses more on
compliance with regulatory requirements, social, ethical and environmental risks
those affect the banking industry.
An ALCO paper is produced every month (usually by the Finance Department) which
covers various issues related to Balance Sheet risk management. The ALCO paper is
prepared before the ALCO meeting as the committee reviews the ALCO paper to set
strategies. An ALCO paper typically covers the following:
The ALCO process or the ALCO meeting reviews the ALCO paper along with the
prescribed agendas. The Chairman of the committee, that is the Treasurer or the CEO,
raises issues related to the balance sheet. Treasurer suggests whether the interest rates
need to be reprised, whether the bank needs deposits or advance growth, whether growth
of deposits and advances should be on short or longer term, what would be the transfer
price of funds among the divisions, what kind of interbank dependency the bank should
have etc. In short, all issues related to liquidity and market risk are covered. Based on the
analysis and views of the Treasurer, the committee takes decisions to reduce balance
sheet risk while maximizing profits.
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Cash flow (long/short) plan based on market interest rates and liquidity.
Need for change in Fund Transfer Pricing (FTP) &/or customer rates in line with
strategy adapted.
Address to the limits that are in breach (if any) or are in line of breach and
provide detailed plan to bring all limits under control.
Address to all regulatory issues that are under threat to non-compliance.
Apart from the regular monthly meeting, ALCO meeting is also called as and when any
contingent situations arise. A very good example may be, during the Eid period. At those
times, market liquidity dries out and overnight rates shoot up. Banks who are net
borrowers from the market may be exposed to huge interest expense the high rates in the
market. This is an ideal time for a special ALCO meeting, where the committee may take
critical decisions for deposit mobilization on an urgent basis for reducing dependency
from the market.
Control activities involve two steps: (1) the establishment of control policies and
procedures and (2) verification that the control policies and procedures are being
complied with.
Senior management should ensure that adequate control activities are an integral
part of the daily functions of all relevant personnel; this enables quick response to
changing conditions and avoids unnecessary costs. Control activities are most
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effective when they are viewed by management and all other personnel as an
integral part of daily activities rather than an addition to it.
One of the most important aspects of internal control system requires that there is
appropriate segregation of duties and personnel are not assigned conflicting
responsibilities.
Furthermore the employees must also be provided with necessary authority, which
will enforce segregations of duties.
For employees to carry out their responsibilities properly each employee should
have appropriate job description
The board of directors and the senior management must establish a compliance
culture within the banking organization that emphasizes and demonstrates to all
levels of personnel the importance of internal control.
In reinforcing ethical values the banking organization should avoid policies and
practices that provide inadvertent incentive for inappropriate activities. Examples
of such policies and practices include undue emphasis on performance targets or
operational results, particularly short term ones that ignore long term risks and
compensation schemes that overly depend on short term performance. The board
of directors and the senior management may establish a ‘Code of Ethics’ that all
levels of personnel must sign and adhere to.
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The policy statement of Asset Liability Management is laid out for the followings and
annual review would be carried out taking into the conclusion of changes in Balance
Sheet and market dynamics.
Advance Deposit ratio should be fixed as per guidelines and norms set by the
Central Bank of the country. At present the Advance Deposit ratio is 84 %.
However, the Loan Deposit ratio of the bank should go up to 110% as per
guidelines set in managing core risks in banking, Asset Liability Management.
(ALM)
To calculate the Advance Deposit ratio, The formula given by the Central Bank to
be followed
The Loan Deposit ratio = Loan/(Deposit + Capital + Funded Reserve)
The size and turnover of the local market; our share of that market
The credit limits imposed by our counter parties.
Beside these, the following factors are also to be considered at the time of fixing the
amount of borrowing.
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c) Commitments:
A register regarding sanction of loans to be introduced.
A clause to be inserted in the sanction advice stating the time of taking
disbursement. Failing to avail the loan within disbursement time, loan
automatically cancelled.
During the continuation of time for disbursement, undrawn disbursement amount
to be calculated which will be trend as commitment.
Commitment amount to be considered for raising funds for the bank along with
other factors.
CRR – 4.5% of average Time and Demand as at two Months prior period (Interest free)
SLR – 13.5% of average Time and Demand deposits as at two months prior period
Foreign currency balance held with central bank will not qualify for CRR.
End of Chapter 3
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CHAPTER 4:
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ASSET LIABILITY MANAGEMENT
IN MUTUAL TRUST BANK LTD.
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To analyze the asset liability management I have analyzed of a banks Net Interest
Income, Net Interest Margin (Nim), Gap, Duration, Interest Sensitivity Ratio, Liquidity
Ratio. And tried to compare with bank’s profitability to find that whether there have any
relations or not.
Analysis is given below:
Here NII is increasing day by day because increase in interest rates earned on asset, other
wise increase in interest paid on funding will decrease NII.
4.2.3 NET INTEREST MARGIN (NIM):
We Know: Net interest Margin (NIM) =
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Here NIM was highest in 2006, after that gone down in 2007 and again increased in
2008. So we can say that NIMs were on an average sequence and ALM is going on
moderate way.
The most familiar example of re-pricing assets is loans that are about to mature or are
coming up for renewal. If interest rate have risen since these loans were first make, the
bank will renew them only if it can get an expected yield that approximates the higher
yields currently expected on other financial instruments of comparable quality. Re-
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pricing liabilities include CDs about to mature or be renewed, floating rate deposits, and
money market borrowings.
If interest sensitive assets in each planning period exceed (= >0) the volume of interest
sensitive liabilities, the bank is said to have a positive gap and to be asset sensitive. In
this situation if interest rate rises, the bank’s net interest margin will increase because the
interest revenues generated by the bank’s assets will increase more than the cost of
borrowed funds and vice-versa. The banks with positive gap will reduce if interest rate
falls. In the opposite situation the bank has a negative gap and is said to be liability
sensitive. Liability sensitive (negative) gap = interest sensitive assets – interest sensitive
liabilities < 0. In that case, rising interest rate will lower the bank’s net interest margin,
because the rising cost associate with interest sensitive liabilities will exceed increase in
interest revenue from the bank’s earning assets and vice-versa. Only if interest sensitive
assets and liabilities are equal is a bank relatively insulated from interest rate risk. As a
practical matter, however, a zero gap does not eliminate all interest rate risk, because the
interest rate attached to bank assets and liabilities are not perfectly correlated in the real
world. Loan interest rate, for example, tends to lag behind interest rates on money market
borrowings. In practical world, zero gaps are also impossible.
The total effect of interest rate change can be summarized by its maturity gap, is the
difference between interest Rate Sensitive Assets (RSA) and the interest Rate Sensitive
Liabilities (RSL)
Rate Sensitive Assets (RSA) of the Bank is-
Money call at short notice
Investment (in shares and securities)
Short Term Loan and Advance
Non-Banking Asset
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4.2.4.2 Gap:
We know: GAP = RSA – RSL
Here gap is negative and this gap has increased year by year, which is not a good sign for
the Bank.
Here relative gap is negative but has reduced over the time. It is some how good sign that
they tried to cover-up this Gap.
Duration is a value and time weighted measure of maturity that considers the timing of all
cash flows from earning assets and all cash outflows associated with liabilities. In effect,
duration measures the average time needed to recover the funds committed to an
investment. The net worth (NW) of any bank is equal to the value of its assets (A) less the
value of its liability (L):
NW = A – L
As interest rates changes, the value of both a bank’s assets and liabilities will change,
resulting in a change in net worth:
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Δ NW = ΔA – ΔL
Duration analysis can be used to stabilize the market value of a bank’s net worth (NW). It
measures the sensitivity of the market value of financial instruments to changes in
interest rates. The interest rate risk of financial instruments is directly proportional to
their duration.
With liability having a longer duration than the bank’s assets, a parallel change in all
interest rates will generate a larger change in liability values than assets values. If interest
rates fall, the bank’s liabilities will increase more in value than its assets and net worth
will decline. If interest rates rise, however, liability values will decrease faster than assets
value and bank’s net worth position will increases in value.
This method of measuring interest rate risk examines the sensitivity of the market value
of the bank’s total assets and liabilities to changes interest rates. Duration is a useful
concept because it provides a good approximation of the sensitivity of a security’s market
value to a change in its interest rates.
Duration analysis involves comparing the average duration of the bank’s assets to the
average duration of its liabilities. Let us suppose that the average duration of HYPO
BANK’S assets is 5 years, while the average duration of its liabilities is 3years. With a
5% increase in interest rates, the market value of the bank’s assets fall by 25% = (5%*5
years) and the market value of the liabilities declined by 15%(= - 5%*3 years). The net
result is that the net worth has declined by 10% of the total asset value.
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The interest sensitive gap is interest sensitive assets minus the interest sensitive liabilities,
where interest sensitive assets and liabilities are those items on a bank’s balance sheet
that mature or whose interest rate can be changed during a given interval of time. A bank,
which is asset sensitive, will suffer a decline in its net interest margin if market interest
rates fall. A bank that is liability sensitive will experience decrease in its met margin if
interest rates rise. One of the most popular methods of neutralizing these gap risks is to
buy or sell financial futures contracts. A financial futures contract is an agreement
between a buyer and a seller reached today that call for the delivery of a particular
security in exchange for cash at some future date. The market of futures contract changes
daily as the market price of the security to be exchanged moves over time.
The financial futures market are designed to shift the risk of interest rate fluctuations
from risk averse investors, such as commercial bank, to speculators willing to accept and
possibly profit from such risks. When a bank contracts an exchange broker and offers to
sell futures contract, this means it is promising to deliver securities of a certain kind and
quality to the buyer of those contracts on a stipulated date at predetermined price.
Conversely, a bank may enter the future markets as a buyer of futures contracts, agreeing
to accept delivery of a particular security named in each contract or to pay cash to the
exchange-clearing house the day the contacts mature, based on their price at that time.
A futures hedge against interest rate changes generally requires a bank to take an opposite
position in the futures market from its current position in the cash market. Thus, a bank
planning to buy bond contracts (go long) in the cash market today may try o to protect the
bonds’ value by selling bond contracts (go short) in the futures market. Then, if bond
prices fall in the cash market there will bean offsetting profit in the futures market,
minimizing the loss due to changing interest rates.
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A financial institution at a given time asset or liability sensitive, If the financial institution
is asset sensitive it will be positive gap, Positive relative gap, Interest sensitivity ratio is
greater than 1. If financial institution is liability sensitive it will be negative gap, negative
relative gap, and interest sensitivity ratio is less than 1.
Here in Mutual Trust Bank Gap is Negative, relative Gap is Negative; Interest Sensitivity
Ratio is less than 1.
Liquidity Ratio should be 80% to 85% for a Bank. But here is 64% to 89%. So we can
say that they can use their deposits bitterly to earn more profit.
A financial institution at a given time asset or liability sensitive, if the financial institution
is asset sensitive it will be positive gap, positive relative gap, interest sensitivity ratio is
greater than 1. If financial institution is liability sensitive it will be negative gap, negative
relative gap, and interest sensitivity ratio is less than 1.
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Here in Mutual Trust Bank Gap is Negative, relative Gap is Negative; Interest
Sensitivity Ratio is less than 1. So it is a Liability Sensitive Financial Institution.
It is already mentioned that effective liability management depends on less cost and less
volatile fund. It also depends on the effective utilization of the collected funds. From the
analysis, it is already clear that current deposit is the least costly source of deposited
funds whereas fixed deposit is the most costly source of deposited funds. But current
deposit is the most volatile sources in nature and fixed deposit is the stable nature. Term
deposit is consists of savings and fixed deposit. So, for getting an appropriate liability
structure, bank management must make a balance between current and term deposit. It
can also use money market borrowing because it is less costly and flexible compared to
deposit. A bank can also rely on various off-balance sheet items for funding to its needs.
Liability management also depends on the effective use of the collected funds. Improper
use makes the collected funds burden for the bank. In this part, various ratios are
analyzed both in the context of interest cost of the funds and their effective utilization.
The value of ROA and ROE depends on the volume of net income after tax. So, if banks use
heavily deposits, especially term deposits as sources of fund then ultimately the interest cost will
be increased. As a result values of the mentioned ratios will be decreased.
The value of ROA has decreasing trend. The ROA of Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. is growing
over the first two years. After 2006 it has increased again. It indicates that the
management is somehow able to achieve consistent growth in the bank’s spread through
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close control over the bank’s earning assets and the pursuit of the cheapest sources of
funding.
If we see only net interest margin (NIM) then the impact of liability management can be
realized directly. Because interest expense depends on liability portion but the income
portion depends on how one can utilize the funds in an efficient and profitable way. In
this case the ratio of net non-interest margin and net operating margin can explain the
impact of liability on profitability.
The vulnerable trend of Earning Spread of Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. reflects the low
efficiency of its intermediation functions and its strong position in the competition. A
liability structure will be effective only if the bank can earn profit by using it. And the
liability will give profit only if it is stable and less costly. In all respect Mutual Trust
Bank failed to manage its liability. As Mutual Trust Bank is a service oriented private
bank, it cannot say no to the public regarding the acceptance of deposits. The bank has to
accept a huge amount of term loan every year. But it does not have the much opportunity
to invest those loans. The bank is suffering from bad loans. So, interest revenue from the
earning assets is becoming due in every year. It affects the bank’s net interest margin. In
case of investment, Mutual Trust bank invested majority of its funds to advances. It
enhances the default risk. The next major portion in the use of fund is money market
lending sector. The bank also has to maintain the required provision for classified loans
that places an adverse impact on the profit as well as on the capital of the bank.
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CHAPTER 5
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
5.1 SUMMARY:
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Banking has started with asset liability management. Like other financial intermediaries,
commercial banks also intermediate between the savers and the borrower, to mobilize the
financial surpluses of the savers and allocate these savings to the credit-worthy borrowers
of different sectors in the economy. In this way, they not only help in the financial
development of a country, but also facilitate the economic development. By doing this
intermediation function, commercial banks are creating liability for the banks.
Commercial banks are financial intermediaries who mobilize funds from surplus
economic units and deploying these funds to deficit economic units. At the very
beginning of the commencement of the business, commercial banks need funds for its
survival. They collect funds and the again lend these funds to deficit spenders. By this
way they are making profit.
Banks profit is the difference between revenues earned form the lending to the deficit
units and interest expense to the surplus unit. Banks can collect its funds from mainly
three sources- from public as deposit, from money market borrowing and from off
balance sheet sources. Among the sources, deposit source is the most costly but captures
almost eighty percent share in the liability portfolio. Again deposit can be divided into
three types – current deposit, savings deposit and fixed deposit. Current deposit is the
least costly funds of the bank. No interest cost is involved in that fund. It is generally kept
by businessmen. Some administrative cost is involved in current deposit. But the problem
is that current deposit is the most volatile deposit among the deposit portfolio. Banks are
bound to refund the funds when claims are raised from depositors. It is against the
principle of stability in liability management. If current deposit has the large portion in
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the deposit portfolio, then the bank cannot afford to go for long-term investment. Because
in these cases banks may face liquidity crisis.
Savings and fixed deposits are the costly sources of funds for a bank. These funds are
relatively stable in nature. If bank has large portion of fixed deposit in the liability
portfolio, then the bank has to incur a large volume of interest expense.
Banks can also collect its necessary funds from the money market. Money market is an
arrangement where the banks lend its surplus cash to other banks that need funds. The
money market interest rate is generally lower than the deposit interest rate. If there is a
strong money market in the economy, it reduces the dependency of bank on the costly
source of fund, i.e. deposits. Commercial banks can borrow from the money market as
and when required.
Another important source of bank funds, which is very much popular in developed world,
is the off-balance sheet source. They arte asset securitization, loan selling, financial
futures, interest rate options and interest rate swaps. But in our country only the
traditional off-balance sheet items such as letters of credit, letter of guarantee, and bills
for collection constitute an important element in the liability structure of most of the
banks. Interest cost does not involve in case of off-balance sheet items. Only some
administrative cost such as telephone, telegrams and stamps are involved here.
When analyzing the annual report of the sampled banks, it is found that for all the banks
deposit has the major contribution in the liability portfolio. The next share is for the off-
balance sheet activities and money market borrowing respectively.
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has a greater amount of term deposit, which is costly. Besides the decreasing trend of
current deposit made the cost of fund high.
2. Beside interest cost, there must have some other reason that is manpower productivity
that contributes to the profitability of Mutual Trust Bank. It means that other than interest
cost, some variables has strong influence on the profitability of the bank, which is not a
normal phenomena. The amount of non-interest expense of the bank is high. It indicates
misuse of money.
3. Effective liability management also depends of the effective use of the collected funds.
Mutual Trust bank invested most of its funds in advances. But the problem of the bank is
the huge amount of classified advances. In 2007, 45.32% of total advances were
classified. It places an adverse pressure on the profit potential of the bank. Besides, the
bank has to pay interest on the funds collected for funding these advances. But the bank
is getting no return on these advances. This made the situation for the bank unfortunate.
5. About 80%of total deposits of Mutual Trust bank are term deposit. It means that it fails
to maintain balance between demand deposit and term deposit. But the bank is successful
in proper utilization of its collected funds. It makes the bank profitable. But the bank
could have enhanced its profit if it could make a balance between less costly funds.
6. The bank is investing majority of its funds in advances. In 2007, 2.04% of total
advances were classified. It indicates proper utilization of the collected funds. In this
context, it can be said that the bank is successful in managing its liability.
5.2 CONCLUSION WITH RECOMMENDATION:
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2. Mutual Trust bank should have a clear ALM Policy. In the study it is found that Mutual
Trust is utilizing their collected funds properly. Improper use of funds will increase the
cost of the liability. Again a bank can make profit even by accepting funds at high cost if
it can use the funds properly.
4. The bank should accept funds according to the potentiality of investing them. If a bank
cannot invest its funds, it will increase the real cost of the fund.
Strong Money Market should be developed in this country. If strong money market is
developed, then a bank can borrow funds from the market as and when required. It will
reduce the dependency of the bank on the deposit. As the money market borrowing is less
costly compared to deposited funds, it will reduce the bank’s cost of fund.
5. Mutual Trust Bank should go for new off-balance sheet sources for getting the required
funds. It can securitize its assets when it needs funds. Again it can sell the loan to other
banks when funds are needed. Other off-balance sheet sources can be used according to
their nature.
6. Bank should invest a significant amount in human resources development so that they
can form strong human capitals that ultimately contribute to ensure profitability in future.
7. Bank should invest a significant amount in research and developments so that it can
identify the appropriate source of funned according to the nature of investment.
8. Bank should have a strong monitoring cell so that the investment can not be a bad one.
In this respect, the cell can give advice to the borrower in technical, financial and other
related issues that will ensure the efficient use of funds by the borrower.
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9. Mutual Trust Bank should give its customer a greater amount of ancillary service. No
funds are involved in providing ancillary services. It will reduce the dependency of the
bank on funds, which in turn will increase the fee earnings of the bank.
10. Government must take necessary steps in the development of strong money market in
the country.
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Bibliography
Web search: Mutual Trust Bank Limited
Web Search: Asset Liability Management
Annual Report of MTBL (2005 to 2008)
Book:
1. Commercial Banking, The Management of Risks, Gup & kolari, 3rd Edition.
2. Bank Management & Financial Service, Peter. S. Rose Sylviac. Hudgins, 6th Edition
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