hard · FRM Part 2 Liquidity & Treasury Risk
A Treasury department is managing Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book (IRRBB). They observe that in a rising rate environment, the Net Interest Income (NII) is projected to increase, while the Economic Value of Equity (EVE) is projected to decline significantly.
What structural feature of the balance sheet most likely explains this discrepancy?
- The bank has a positive repricing gap (rate-sensitive assets > rate-sensitive liabilities) but a long duration gap (D_A > (L)/(A) D_L).
- The bank has used receive-fixed swaps to try to immunize EVE, but this raises asset duration and causes NII itself to fall as funding costs reprice upward.
- The bank is liability-sensitive in the short term, so NII rises since liabilities reprice more slowly than rate-sensitive assets do.
- The bank's non-maturity deposits carry near-zero effective duration, leaving EVE largely exposed to the shock while NII simply captures a spread.
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