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Questions on the text

  1. What two kinds of borrowings are possible?

  2. In what circumstances an overdraft on current account is permissible?

  3. How are personal loans usually repaid?

  4. Will you pay back more than you borrowed? What will the difference be?

  5. What information will the manager require for a personal loan?

  6. What information will he require for a business loan?

  7. What other things will he take into account?

  8. What will he need from you to make the loan safer for him?

  9. What does a businessman mean by his expected rate of return?

  10. Why might this be important to the bank manager?

  11. What kind of things might you offer as collateral for a personal loan?

Text 4. Bank Investments

1. funds

фонды, денежные средства; запас, резерв

  1. make withdrawals

снимать со счёта

  1. asset

активы, средства; капитал; имущество, собственность

  1. meet demands

удовлетворять требования

  1. cushion

деньги, отложенные на черный день (на случай сложного финансового положения )

  1. unexpected demands

неожиданные нужды, требования

  1. rate of return

норма прибыли; коэффициент окупаемости капиталовложений

  1. highly liquid lending

легко ликвидные (реализуемые) кредиты, ссуды

  1. money market

денежный рынок, рынок краткосрочного ссудного капитала

  1. capital market

рынок долгосрочного ссудного капитала

  1. yielding

доход по ценным бумагам, доход в виде процентов на вложенный капитал;

приносить доход

  1. government bonds

облигация, закладная, долговое обязательство

  1. readily

легко (без труда)

  1. saleable

пользующийся спросом; реализуемый, продаваемый

  1. occasion demand

когда потребуется по какой-то причине

  1. short notice

сокращенный срок уплаты

  1. banks investment portfolio

портфель ценных бумаг

  1. working capital

оборотный капитал

  1. fixed capital

основной капитал; активы длительного пользования

  1. AA rating

Первоклассный

  1. blue chip

первоклассная ценная бумага

The investment policy of a bank is based upon the reconciliation of two conflicting aims. On the one hand the bank wants to make as much profit as it can and for this reason it must take the risks of lending money. On the other hand its funds belong to its depositors and must be available whenever they wish to make withdrawals.

There are two things that the bank must therefore do. First it must keep a proportion of its assets in the form of cash to meet demands. The amount that this needs to be varies very little from one bank to another or from one day to another and experience suggests that it is about six percent. As a cushion against unexpected demands a further proportion of funds is invested at low rates of return in highly liquid lending mostly to firms in the money and capital markets.

The second thing that the bank must do is to ensure that the investments it chooses are safe. This also means that they are relatively low yielding since high yields are associated with risk and with lending for long periods of time. Much of a bank’s investment is in short and medium term government and local government bonds. They yield certain incomes and are readily saleable should the occasion demand.

Advances by a bank to its customers are the least liquid of their assets since there are few borrowers who could repay a loan at very short notice. However, they are also the most profitable of them yielding the highest rates of return. Advances to customers are likely to account for more than two thirds of the banks investment portfolio although this will vary on a day to day basis since overdrafts are the most common form of advance and are not immediately controllable by the bank.

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