MCQ Bank
When the credit exposure is denominated in a currency different from the currency of the underlying exposure it is called_____________________________.
- A) Liability mismatch
- B) Security mismatch
- C) Maturity mismatch
- D) Currency mismatch
Collateral exposes the bank to _________________________.
- A) Market risk
- B) Operational risk
- C) All given options
- D) Legal risk
Which of the following recorded as an asset by the originating bank must also be treated as securitization exposures?
- A) Rights money
- B) Letter-of-credit
- C) Cash collateral accounts
- D) Deposit accounts
Which one of the following is not used as Credit risk mitigation (CRM) approach?
- A) The foundation IRB approach
- B) The advanced IRB approach
- C) The advanced standardizes approach
- D) The standardized approach
Banks are required to hold regulatory capital against all of their securitization exposures, including all of the following, EXCEPT:
- A) Extension of a liquidity facility or credit enhancement
- B) Investments in asset-backed securities
- C) Retention of a subordinated tranche
- D) The condition of liquidity risk to a securitization transaction
There are _______ of a rigorous process related to Key Principles of Supervisory Review.
- A) Two main features
- B) Three minor features
- C) Four main features
- D) Five main features
Which one of the following is not a mean of risk addressing?
- A) Increasing the credit
- B) Applying internal limits
- C) Strengthen risk management
- D) Improving internal control
In credit derivative ____________________ is specified by the parties to the agreement.
- A) Credit event
- B) Profit event
- C) Debit event
- D) Loss event
Who of the following clearly bears primary responsibility for ensuring that the bank has adequate capital to support its risks?
- A) Stock management
- B) Materials management
- C) Insurance management
- D) Bank management
In ____________________investors are paid out prior to the originally stated maturity of the securities issued.
- A) Credit enhancement
- B) Asset baked commercial paper
- C) None of the given options
- D) Clean up calls
Underlying instruments in the pool being securitized may include but are not restricted to all of the following, EXCEPT:
- A) Letter-of-credit
- B) Commitments
- C) Equity securities
- D) Corporate bonds
Securitization exposures, as described in Basel Accord, can include but are not restricted to all of the following, EXCEPT:
- A) Profitability rate
- B) Liquidity facilities
- C) Asset-backed securities
- D) Credit enhancements
Who will be responsible for slotting ECAIs assessments into the standardized risk weighting framework?
- A) Shareholders
- B) Board of directors
- C) ECAI
- D) Banking supervisors
Although the treatments of collateral, netting and credit derivatives and guarantees are based on similar concepts, which of the following are different?
- A) Quality weighting schemes
- B) Risk weighting schemes
- C) Explicit weighting schemes
- D) Temporal weighting schemes
____________________claim receives ______________ capital requirement
- A) Unsecured, higher
- B) Unsecured, lower
- C) Secured, higher
- D) Secured, lower
A ____________________ is an option that permits the securitization exposures to be called before all of the underlying exposures have been repaid.
- A) Credit enhancement interest-only strip
- B) Asset backed commercial paper
- C) Clean-up calls
- D) Credit enhancement
Added protection is provided by the bank to the parties to the exposures in __________________.
- A) Credit enhancement
- B) Early amortization
- C) Clean-up calls
- D) Asset based commercial paper
What does the acronym SPE stand for?
- A) Special purpose entity
- B) Society of petroleum entity
- C) Society for paralingual education
- D) Supple point extraction
A _____________________occurs when the residual maturity of a hedge is less than that of the underlying exposure.
- A) Maturity mismatch
- B) Currency mismatch
- C) Security mismatch
- D) Liability mismatch
Which of the following occurs when the residual maturity of a hedge is less than that of the underlying exposure?
- A) A hedging mismatch
- B) A currency mismatch
- C) A maturity mismatch
- D) Asset liability mismatch