medium · Frm Part 2 Liquidity & Treasury Risk

A bank utilizes a 'Funds Transfer Pricing' (FTP) system to manage its interest rate and liquidity risks.

If the Treasury desk charges a lending unit a 'matched-maturity' rate of 4.50% for a 5-year fixed loan, but the overnight funding rate is 2.50%, what is the primary purpose of this 200 bp spread in the FTP framework?

  1. To reflect the equity risk premium required by the bank's shareholders.
  2. To provide the lending unit with a subsidy to compete in a tight credit market.
  3. To remove the 'free' maturity transformation profit from the lending unit and centralize the interest rate risk in Treasury.
  4. To account for the expected credit loss (EL) of the borrower over the life of the loan.

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