How to Protect Your Bank from Rising Interest Rates: A Practical Guide to Community Bank Hedging Solutions

Start to protect your bank from higher interest rates today just by choosing to learn more about this important banking concept. And then build upon your understanding of interest rate risk sensitivities as you move from hedging concepts to strategies.

This continuous, and easy, interest rate risk improvement is possible by simply understanding and avoiding the most common hedging missteps seen by community bank asset liability and performance expert Howard Lothrop. Tap his comprehensive knowledge of community bank hedging, developed through years of experience, as your roadmap to success.

Community banking expert Howard Lothrop will break down, in easy to follow and simple to understand explanations, how to:
* Use a simple rule of thumb to check your interest rate risk exposure
* Get a quick overview of accounting and regulatory compliance issues
* Finally understand how your big bank competitors hedge loans
* Understand the simpler method recommended for community bank hedging
* Determine what's needed to keep both your regulators and accountants happy
* Use simple cash instruments to apply hedging strategies in even the smallest bank

How to Protect Your Bank from Rising Interest Rates: A Practical Guide to Community Bank Hedging will show you right away how to evaluate your interest rate risk, avoid common regulatory criticism on hedging, and realistically consider if hedging is a workable solution for your bank.

More importantly, you will learn if hedging is not a realistic solution for your bank.