Project Finance on Assets and Liability Management of Different Banks
Project Finance on Assets and Liability Management of Different Banks
Abstract
ALM is a dynamic process of planning, organizing, coordinating, and managing assets and liabilities their mixes, volumes, maturities, yields, and costs in order to attain a defined Net Interest Income. As all bank operations revolve around obtaining and deploying money, Asset-Liability Management (ALM) takes on more importance as a risk management effort by Indian banks. Measuring and managing liquidity risk is a critical aspect of ALM. A mismatch between the maturities of assets and liabilities exposes the balance sheet to liquidity risk.
The purpose of this study is to use the Gap Analysis Technique to assess the liquidity risk in SBI and affiliated banks in India (maturity profiling). This study tries to evaluate the liquidity risk faced by the sample banks in 2011-2012 using publicly accessible information. According to the results, banks are vulnerable to liquidity risk.
Introduction
In an attempt to optimize profits, Flannery and James (1984) explored the use of asset liability management techniques to maximize the advantage of tax shields. The findings indicate that banks would alter their maturity gaps between loans and deposits in certain cases in order to take advantage of tax breaks and increase profits. Giokas and Vassiloglou (1991) created a goal-programming approach for asset and liability management in banks. They agreed that, in addition to trying to maximize profits, management strives to reduce risks associated with the allocation of the bank's capital, as well as to achieve other objectives of the bank, such as maintaining market share, expanding the amount of deposits and loans, and so on.
D According to Gosh Roy (1995), in an essay, ALM was popular in the worldwide banking scene in the late 1970s as a strategy for improved profitability and controlling interest rate volatility. With the trend of globalization and deregulation in full swing, Indian banks could no longer avoid managing their assets and liabilities in the short term. According to O P Chawla (1998), ALM evolved from the early practice of managing liquidity on the asset side of the bank's balance sheet to a later shift to the liability side, known as liability management, to a still later realization of using both the assets and liabilities sides of the balance sheet to achieve optimum resource management. That was, however, until the 1970s. ALM in the present decade encompasses the management of a bank's whole balance sheet.
Conclusion
Banks' asset liability management is heavily reliant on the maturity profile of both assets and liabilities. During our research period, i.e., 2011-2012, since the sample banks of our study typically raised resources via short-term liabilities to finance assets ranging from short- to long-term, the liquidity and credit risks increased, especially during crisis times. Because of the opening of the banking domain to global competitors in the Indian environment, as well as the growing penetration of private sector banks, public sector banks, such as SBI & associate in our research, have been forced to focus on profitability at the expense of liquidity.
However, banks should assess the optimal liquidity risk they can accept, since a very high liquidity risk would have an impact on profitability.
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