Silicon Valley Bank Failure – Lessons in Interest Rate Risk Management
South State Correspondent
MARCH 13, 2023
Equally important is the bank’s securities duration, as shown in the graph below. Approximately 56% of the bank’s securities had repricing greater than 15 years. Based on the bank’s own filing, and like many banks, SVB did not deploy hedging instruments to manage its securities duration risk.
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