Tag: Liquidity Management

Another Problem With Using Net Interest Margin To Manage Your Bank

Metrics For Bank Performance

Net interest margin (NIM) is one of the most over-utilized metrics in banking. As we have pointed out in the past, if you include all the failed banks over the last ten years, the statistic is about 20% predictive of underperformance. Thus, if you manage your bank trying to get the largest NIM possible, you are likely to produce less profit, not more. Of course, all things being equal you want wider NIM loans than not, but all things are rarely equal.

Get Ready: How To Prepare Your Bank For A Fed Exit

Federal Reserve Exit Tools

While it is debatable when the Fed will raise interest rates, we now know we are getting closer. In all likelihood, October marks the end of the Fed’s Quantitative Easing Program and now the question is just how the Fed will reverse a large portion of the $4.4T of investment that sits on our Nation’s balance sheet. Of greater interest to banks is what mechanisms the Fed will use and what banks need to know to take the best advantage of the unprecedented size of the liquidity reversal. 

 

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