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đźš° Managing Assets for Liquidity: TSAA, Repo Rodeos & Collateral Capers
LO 72.e: Discuss the impact of available asset transactions on cash flows and liquidity generation capacity 🧠Why Asset Management Isn’t Just for Retirement Planners Managing a bank’s assets for liquidity isn’t about making your portfolio look pretty on paper. It’s more like keeping your kitchen stocked with food: you want groceries $($assets$)$ that are…
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đź’§Liquidity Risks, Cash Flows, and Capacity: Or How Banks Keep from Running Dry
Imagine your bank as a giant elephant on a tightrope. Its balance? Liquidity. Its net? Cash flows. And just beneath the net? The abyss of insolvency. To keep this pachyderm steady, banks must master the art of monitoring and managing cash inflows and outflows over time. Welcome to the circus of Liquidity Risk Management! 📉…
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💸 CASH FLOW TYPES AND LIQUIDITY OPTIONS – THE FINANCE COMEDY SHOW YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU NEEDED
Welcome to the thrilling world of cash flows and liquidity options. If you ever thought financial concepts were dry, buckle up — we’re about to add spice, jokes, and more structure than your gym schedule in January. 🎯 Deterministic vs. Stochastic Cash Flows — The Predictable vs. the Wild Let’s start with two characters in…
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🚨 Managing and Measuring Intraday Liquidity Risk: Why Your Bank’s Day Job is Like Managing a Busy Train Station 🚉
Introduction: The Bank’s Balancing Act Imagine your bank as the station master of a massive train network. Trains $($payments, securities, loans$)$ are arriving and departing all day. Your job? Make sure they all run on time — without crashing, overspending on fuel $($money$)$, or missing the schedule. That’s intraday liquidity risk management in a nutshell…
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🚰 Intraday Liquidity: The Bank’s Daylight Survival Kit
Imagine you’re a barista running a cafĂ©. You know you’ll get payments throughout the day $($customers walking in$)$, but you also have to pay for things—milk, beans, rent, and that one weird guy who insists on Bitcoin. That juggling act of incoming and outgoing is exactly what intraday liquidity is for a bank. Intraday liquidity…
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🏦 Legal Reserves & Money Position Management: The Bank’s Balancing Act
Imagine you’re a tightrope walker. You’re carrying buckets of water $($money$)$ while dancing to the unpredictable tune of the market. Welcome to the world of a Money Position Manager, whose job is not only to avoid falling off the rope but also to make sure the buckets aren’t too full $($excess reserves$)$ or too empty…
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🏦 BANK LIQUIDITY NEEDS: The Art of Not Running Dry
Imagine a bank as a super fancy tea shop. People come in and out all day, some sipping slowly, others gulping gallons. Now, what happens if the shop runs out of tea? Panic. Customers leave. The reputation gets steeped in trouble. That’s liquidity for you — the lifeblood of a financial institution. So, how does…
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đź’§ Net Liquidity and Strategies: The Fluid Dance of Finance
Imagine a bank as a very fancy water tank. Money flows in like a clean stream of deposits, and it flows out through customer withdrawals, loan disbursements, and the occasional dividend like a fountain on a hot summer day. Now, what happens when more is going out than coming in? Uh-oh! That’s a liquidity problem.…
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🧠Investment Maturity Strategies and Maturity Management Tools
Why do banks care about how long their investments last? Well, imagine a bank’s investment strategy like planning a family road trip. You don’t just grab snacks and drive—you plan how far you’ll go, where you’ll stop, and when you’ll return. Similarly, banks decide whether to invest for the short haul, long haul, or a…
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🧠Investment Security Selection and Risks: How Banks Choose Their Wingmen
Imagine a banker sitting at a financial buffet. Every dish $($a security$)$ looks tempting—some are spicy with yield, others are bland but safe. Which one do you pick when you don’t want indigestion $($a.k.a. risk$)$? That’s where investment security selection kicks in. 🏦 Who Invests, and Why? Banks hold investment securities for: Roughly 20% of…