| Abstract [eng] |
The role of interest rate risk in the activity of the commercial bank, as well as influence of this risk to the banks’ financial results, was recently growing in the past decades, while the infrastructure of financial markets was developing and the competition between financial institutions was strengthening. The object of this graduation paper is interest rate risk and its’ management in the commercial bank and the main upraised purpose is to analyze theoretical aspects of the process of interest rate risk management and to make a practical study of interest rate risk management in the commercial bank. The paper consists of three parts, whereof in the first parts the theoretical aspects of interest rate risk management are analyzed, acquainting with the conception and theories of interest rates, analyzing the components of interest rate risk and the variety of its’ evaluation methods, their advantages, disadvantages, as well as discussing the significance of forecasting interest rate risk for the process of interest rate risk management and analyzing the instruments of hedging against interest rate risk. Aiming variously to reveal the interest rate risk management in the commercial bank, the study of interest rate risk management in the example of sector of Lithuanian commercial banks is made in the second part. The comparison with the abroad banks and indication of main problems are also made in this part of graduation paper. The benchmarks of the further improvement of interest rate risk management in the commercial bank by two aspects (analyzing the possibilities of adjusting the structure and duration of interest rate risk sensitive assets and liabilities and the possibilities of derivative financial instrument usage for the hedging of interest rate risk) are given in the third part of paper, solving the problems, revealed in the practical study. |
