Banking FAQs: Reserves - Borrowing - Assets

FINA706 Financial Institutions and Markets

Questions:

1. QMZ Bank has total checkable deposits of $100 million in its account. The ratio of reserves requirement by the central bank is 8%. The amount of total reserves of the bank is $40 million. There are unexpected deposit withdrawals of $36 million due to recession. The bank is short in required reserves by how much?

2. Assume that a bank needs to borrow $209,650.00 from the Central Bank to meet any shortfall in its required reserves. The number of days to maturity of this loan is 20 days when the bank needs to pay $210,000 for this loan to the central Bank. The discount rate on this loan is?

3. A commercial bank has total market value of assets $400 million with an average duration of 3.6 years. Its total market value of liabilities is $350 million with an average duration of 4.5 years. Interest rates have decreased from 4% to 3%. The market value of net worth of the bank as a percentage of its total assets?

4. If the interest rate on euro-denominated deposits is 15 percent and it is 13 percent on dollar deposits, and if the euro is expected to appreciate at a 4 percent rate, for Francois the Foreigner the expected rate of return on dollar deposits is?

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