Appendix 3 – Financial risk management – indicative control framework

  ADMINISTERED
MATCHED
EXTENDED  COMPREHENSIVE 
RISK MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE 
  • CEO (+CFO/FM) + Board
  • Dealing / settlement segregation (minimum 4 eyes)
  • CEO + CFO (or FM) + Board
  • Dealing / settlement segregation (minimum 4 eyes)
  • Risk oversight by executive committee / Board ALCO
  • (CEO)/CFO + Treasurer + ALM Management ALCO
  • Front Office / Back Office segregation
  • Independent risk manager/team in second line, reporting to CRO + Board RiskCo
  • CFO + Treasurer + ALM + Management ALCO + Daily Treasury Committee
  • Front + Middle + Back Office segregation
  • Fully independent second line reporting to Risk Director (ALM review in second line)
  • EWRM capability
BALANCE SHEET STRUCTURE
  • Commercial (loan book) assets: Minimum 90% on administered rates
  • Liabilities: Minimum 90% SDL on administered rates
  • Fixed rate lending <=2 years, only if predominantly matched by fixed rate retail deposits of same duration
  • Non-administered variable rate (eg base rate/SONIA-linked) lending and funding only if with tracking period limited to <=3 years.
  • Internal limits on volume/stock of variable rate tracker assets and liabilities.
  • Commercial assets: A minimum of 50% either on administered rates or due to revert to administered rates in the next 12 months and of that a minimum 40% already on administered rates
  • Liabilities: Minimum 50% SDL on administered rates
  • Fixed rate lending/funding - max 5 years to reprice date (subject to limits)
  • Non-administered variable rate (eg base rate/SONIA-linked) lending and funding - max tracking period 5 years.
  • Internal limits on volume/stock of variable rate tracker assets and liabilities.
  • Commercial assets: A minimum of 40% either on administered rates or due to revert to administered rates in the next 12 months, and of that a minimum 25% already on administered rates.
  • Liabilities: Minimum 40% SDL on administered rates
  • Internal limits on repricing maturity and volume of new lending/funding at fixed rates.
  • Internal limits on reversions to variable rate within a period.
  • Internal limits on volume/stock of variable rate tracker assets and liabilities.
  • Internal limits controlling level of administered rate assets and liabilities
  • Internal limits controlling repricing maturity and volume of new lending/funding at fixed rates
  • Internal limits controlling reversions to variable rate within a period.
  • Internal limits controlling volume/stock of variable rate tracker assets and liabilities.
RISK ANALYSIS
  • Matching Report + Static Gap analysis (if any fixed rate lending / funding - (monthly)
  • Net interest margin analysis and projection
  • Basis risk report.
  • MTM of fixed rate liquid assets (at least monthly)
  • Forward looking corporate plan (incorporating stress scenario)
  • Matching Report (min monthly) + Static Gap analysis
  • Net interest margin analysis and projection
  • Basis risk analysis and projection
  • Forward looking corporate plan (incorporating interest rate stress scenario)
  • Run-off B/S Gap or VaR / PV01 Analysis (min 2 x monthly)
  • NII static / run-off B/S simulation modelling using a range of stressed assumptions (min quarterly)
  • Behavioural modelling (prepayment risk)
  • Basis risk modelling and projected impact (min 2 years)
  • Forward looking corporate plan (incorporating a range of interest rate stress scenarios)
  • Run-off B/S Gap or VaR / PV01 Analysis (min weekly)
  • Dynamic balance sheet simulation modelling of NII (incorporating future business flows, optionality) under multiple interest rate stress scenarios and yield curves assumptions
  • Structural basis risk modelling (using projected business flows)
  • Behavioural modelling (NMDs, prepayments)
  • Corporate planning system fully integrated with ALM systems (incorporating ‘what if’ analysis and stress testing)
TREASURY ANALYSIS SYSTEMS 
  • Management accounting system
  • Loan/deposit matching capability (if lending/funding at fixed rates)
  • Cashflow projection capability.
  • Management accounting system
  • Basic ALM IT capable of matching and static/run-off balance sheet modelling
  • Cashflow and interest rate basis projection capability
  • ALM system capable of static / run-off balance sheet modelling under dynamic rate conditions
  • Optionality modelling capability (particularly to capture prepayment propensity)
  • ALM system capable of projecting forward balance sheet and simulating different interest rate environments, plus measuring embedded optionality, basis risk, etc.
CURRENCY
  • Sterling only
  • Sterling only
  • GBP, EUR, USD only.
  • No mismatch
  • Min 90%SDL Sterling
  • Multi-currency (subject to policy)
  • Minimal FX mismatch (subject to limits)
INTEREST RATE RISK LIMIT STRUCTURE
  • EV sensitivity limit measured under standard interest rate shock
  • NII sensitivity limit (min current and next financial year)
  • Minimal gap limits
  • Basis risk limits
  • Structural risk limits
  • EV and minimum 24 month NII sensitivity limits measured under standard interest rate shock
  • Low gap bucket limits (to cover residuals, prepayment and pipeline only)
  • Basis risk limits
  • Structural risk limits
  • EV & minimum 24 month NII sensitivity limits measured under standard, bespoke and non-parallel rate shock scenarios
  • Gap limits (bucket and cumulative)
  • Basis risk limits
  • Structural risk limits
  • Range of EV and NII sensitivity limits measured under multiple scenarios
  • Range of mismatch limits
  • Basis risk limits
  • Structural risk limits
INTEREST RATE VIEW
  • Interest rate outlook used for business planning only
  • Interest outlook used for pipeline management and business planning only - No positioning for interest rate view
  • Interest view used to inform business outlook and minimal open positions (subject to risk limits)
  • Interest view used to inform business outlook and strategic/open positions (subject to risk limits)
HEDGING ACTIVITY
  • Any fixed rate lending matched with fixed rate funding (& vice versa)
  • No derivatives
  • Fixed interest rates matched product by product (in tranches)
  • Simple derivatives, subject to achieving hedge accounting.
  • No structural hedging
  • Natural hedging (of offsetting balance sheet net mismatch positions)
  • Net hedging of rate positions using a range of vanilla instruments
  • Minimal open positions (subject to limits) for pipeline and residual balances
  • Natural and structural hedging (of balance sheet net mismatch positions)
  • Full range of derivative instruments available for hedging
  • Open positions (subject to limits)
FREE CAPITAL HEDGING
  • None
  • None
  • Earnings / economic value stabilisation on free reserves – duration set as part of strategic review process and amended at other times only with approval of board. No other material position taking in support of an interest rate view
  • Earnings / economic value stabilisation on free reserves – duration set by ALCO/Board. Some position taking in support of an interest rate view subject to agreed limits and appropriate regulatory capital allocation.
INTEREST RATE INSENSITIVE ASSET & LIABILITY (NMD) HEDGING
  • None
  • None
  • None
  • Behavioural modelling of non-maturity deposits
  • NII hedging within limits that balance NII stability benefits against EV risks incurred
HEDGING INSTRUMENTS
  • None

  • Vanilla interest rate swaps
  • Vanilla interest rate caps/collars/floors (purchase only)
  • FTSE swaps (receive only)
  • Vanilla interest rate swaps
  • Vanilla interest rate caps/collars /floors (purchase only)
  • Swaptions (purchase only)
  • FRAs / Futures (purchase only)
  • FTSE swaps (receive only)
  • FX swaps/forward contracts (purchase only)
  • FX options (purchase only)
  • All market available instruments, subject to compliance with Section 9A of the 1986 Act

PRICING COMPONENTS

(see Appendix 6 for a glossary of theoretical pricing components, and an additional table linking these to the treasury approaches)

  • Marginal cost of funding
  • Liquidity cost overlay
  • Operational costs
  • Marginal cost of funding (adjusted for term)
  • Liquidity costs
  • Hedging costs
  • Operational costs
  • Minimum return on Capital
  • Cost of core funding (incorporating liquidity, term, optionality, hedging costs)
  • Behavioural modelling (prepayment)
  • Target return on regulatory capital
  • Pricing system (incorporating liquidity, term, currency, optionality, hedging costs)
  • Behavioural modelling (prepayment, non-maturity deposits)
  • Credit EL estimates
  • Target return on economic capital
  • FTP system (optional)
INTERNAL AUDIT
  • Non-specialist Internal Audit
  • Non-specialist Internal Audit supplemented by outsourced/co-sourced specialist support for Treasury
  • Specialist IT and Treasury Internal Audit resource (may be outsourced or co-sourced)
  • Specialist Treasury systems and controls Internal Audit resource (may be outsourced or co-sourced).

In this table:

ALCO = Assets and Liabilities Committee
HPIs = house price indices
MTM = mark to market
NII = net interest income
NPV = net present value