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What a gap report is. How financial products fit into a gap report. How gap reports are used. How a numeric value for risk can be obtained. How hedging affects the gap report. The advantages and disadvantages of gap reporting.
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Course Summary
- 30 minutes
- 8 question multiple choice test
- What a gap report is
- How financial products fit into a gap report
- How gap reports are used
- How a numeric value for risk can be obtained
- How hedging affects the gap report
- The advantages and disadvantages of gap reporting
Gap Reports - the details
1. What a gap report is
- Interest rate risk
- Assets & liabilities re-pricing
- Building a gap report
- Examples of assets and liabilities in the gap report
- Loans, deposits, mortgages, fixed rate bonds, floating rate notes, repo, swaps
- How mismatches occur
- Simple balance sheet gap
2. Using the gap report
- Quantification of the interest rate risk
- How you can lose money
- Numeric example
- Hedging the mismatch
- Using cash assets and liabilities
- Using derivatives (swaps)
- The gap report post hedging
- Deciding when to hedge
- Limits on the gap
3. The strengths and weaknesses of gap reports
- Simplicity
- Unexpected changes in the gap
- Options
- Pre-payment risk
- Changes in time buckets
- Non-parallel changes to the yield curve
- Basis risk
- Should you use gap reports?
4. Summary
5. Test
Related Documents
Market Guides > Gap reports-what they are 
14th October 2009
Gap reports are frequently used in firms to show the extent of the interest rate risk that is being run. They are sometimes referred to as interest rate repricing reports. If you look at the assets (investments) and the liabilities (funding) in a bank or building society balance sheet it is most unlikely that they will all be on the same interest basis. Some assets and liabilities are floating or variable rate. This means they are linked to Libor or Base rate. Some assets and liabilities are fixed rate. As a result the balance sheet will have a mixture of fixed rate and floating rate interest payments and receipts. When this happens the firm is exposed to a type of market risk called interest rate risk. When interest rates change the value of the balance sheet can alter. It may work in your favour it may work against you. The main difficulty is the uncertainty you face and that's something you need to manage. A gap report measures this risk. Let's see how.
Market Guides > Gap reports - how do you use them? 
14th October 2009
Gap reports show you the interest rate risk you are running in your balance sheet. They put the assets and liabilities into time buckets in accordance with their interest rate repricing. From this simple approach you can obtain a table or graph of the risk being run. This normally includes a profit and loss figure that results from moving the yield curve. Gap limits are also applied in order to keep the interest rate exposure within risk tolerence. Gap reports aren't new; they are widely used and have both strengths and weaknesses. Let's find out more.
