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International Banking and Money Markets

World financial markets

Institutions

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International Banking Services

Perform everything domestic banks carry out and:

1. Arrange trade financing.2. Arrange foreign exchange.3. Hedging services for foreign currency receivables

and payables through forward and option contracts.4. Offer investment banking services (where allowed).

Sanwa Bank

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The Global - 10 Largest Banks

The World’s Top 10 Banks ranked by Total Assets (2009):

1. Royal Bank of Scotland, UK 3,483,1792. Deutsche Bank, Germany 3,068,7243. Barclays Bank, UK 2,977,4914. BNP Paribas, France 2,477,2725. Credit Agricole Group, France 2,067,5776. UBS, Switzerland 1,881,2467. JP Morgan Chase & Co, US 1,746,2428. Societe Generale, France 1,566,9049. Bank of America Corp, US 1,471,63110. UniCredit, Italy 1,456,892

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Top Ten U.S. BanksThe U.S. Top 10 Banks ranked by total Assets (in $):

1. Citigroup (New York, N.Y.) 2,199,8482. Bank of America Corp. (Char. N.C.) 1,743,4783. J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. (Ohio) 1,642,8624. Wachovia Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.) 808,5755. Taunus Corp. (New York, N.Y.) 750,3236. Wells Fargo & Co. (San Fran. Calif.) 595,2217. HSBC North America Inc. (Heights Ill) 493,0108. U.S. Bancorp (Minneapolis, Minn.) 241,7819. Bank of the New York Mellon (N.Y.) 205,15110. Suntrust, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) 178,986

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International Banking Advantageous

Knowledge Advantage Low Marginal Costs Home Nation Information Services Prestige Regulatory Advantage Wholesale Defensive Strategy Retail Defensive Strategy

– Multinational banks also compete for retail services such as travelers checks, tourist and foreign business market.

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International Banking Advantageous

Transactions Costs Growth Risk Reduction

– Greater stability of earnings due to diversification

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International Banking Offices

Correspondent Bank Representative Offices Foreign Branches Subsidiary and Affiliate Banks Edge Act Banks Offshore Banking Centers International Banking Facilities

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Correspondent Bank

A correspondent banking relationship exists when two banks maintain deposits with each other.

Correspondent banking allows a bank’s MNC client to conduct business worldwide through his local bank or its correspondents.

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Representative Offices A representative office is a small service facility

staffed by parent bank personnel that is designed to assist MNC clients of the parent bank in dealings with the bank’s correspondents.

Representative offices also assist with information about local business customs, and credit evaluation of the MNC’s local customers.

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Foreign Branches A foreign branch bank operates like a local

bank, but is legally part of the parent.– Subject to both the banking regulations of home

country and foreign country.– Can provide a much fuller range of services than

a representative office.

Branch Banks are the most popular way for U.S. banks to expand overseas.

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Subsidiary and Affiliate Banks

A subsidiary bank is a locally incorporated bank wholly or partly owned by a foreign parent.

An affiliate bank is one that is partly owned but not controlled by the parent.

U.S. parent banks like foreign subsidiaries because they allow U.S. banks to underwrite securities.

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Edge Act Banks

Edge Act banks are federally chartered subsidiaries of U.S. banks that are physically located in the U.S. that are allowed to engage in a full range of international banking activities.

The Edge Act was a 1919 amendment to Section 25 of the 1914 Federal Reserve Act.

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Offshore Banking Centers

An offshore banking center is a country whose banking system is organized to permit external accounts beyond the normal scope of local economic activity.

The host country usually grants complete freedom from host-country governmental banking regulations.

Caymans, Switzerland, Why?

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International Banking Facilities

An international banking facility is a separate set of accounts that are segregated on the parents books.

An international banking facility is not a unique physical or legal identity.

Any U.S. bank can have one.

International banking facilities have captured a lot of the Eurodollar business that was previously handled offshore.

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Capital Adequacy Standards

Bank capital adequacy refers to the amount of equity capital and other securities a bank holds as reserves.

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International Money Market

Eurocurrency is a time deposit in an international bank located in a country different than the country that issued the currency.

– For example, Eurodollars are U.S. dollar-denominated time deposits in banks located abroad.

– Euroyen are yen-denominated time deposits in banks located outside of Japan.

– The foreign bank doesn’t have to be located in Europe.

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Eurocurrency Market Most Eurocurrency transactions are interbank

transactions in the amount of $1,000,000 and up.

Common reference rates include– LIBOR the London Interbank Offered Rate– PIBOR the Paris Interbank Offered Rate– SIBOR the Singapore Interbank Offered Rate

A new reference rate for the new euro currency– EURIBOR the rate at which interbank time deposits of € are

offered by one prime bank to another.

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Forward Rate Agreements

An interbank contract that involves two parties, a buyer and a seller.

The buyer agrees to pay the seller the increased interest cost on a notational amount if interest rates fall below an agreed rate.

The seller agrees to pay the buyer the increased interest cost if interest rates increase above the agreed rate.

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Forward Rate Agreements

– Hedge assets that a bank currently owns against interest rate risk.

– Speculate on the future course of interest rates

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Euronotes Euronotes are short-term notes underwritten

by a group of international investment banks or international commercial banks.

They are sold at a discount from face value and pay back the full face value at maturity.

Maturity is typically three to six months.

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Euro-Medium-Term Notes

Typically fixed rate notes issued by a corporation.

Maturities range from less than a year to about ten years.

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Eurocommercial Paper Unsecured short-term promissory notes issued by corporations

and banks.

Placed directly with the public through a dealer.

Maturities typically range from one month to six months.

Eurocommercial paper, while typically U.S. dollar denominated, is often of lower quality than U.S. commercial paper—as a result yields are higher.

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Debt-for-Equity Swaps As part of debt rescheduling agreements among the bank

lending syndicates and the debtor nations, creditor banks would sell their loans for U.S. dollars at discounts from face value to MNCs desiring to make equity investment in subsidiaries or local firms in the LDCs.

A LDC central bank would buy the bank debt from a MNC at a smaller discount than the MNC paid, but in local currency.

The MNC would use the local currency to make pre-approved new investment in the LDC that was economically or socially beneficial to the LDC.

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Debt-for-Equity Swap Illustration

International Bank

Equity Investor or

MNC

LDC Central Bank

LDC firm or MNC

subsidiary

$60mSell $100m LDC debt at 60% of face

Redeem LDC debt at 80% of face in local currency

$80m in local currency

$80m in local currency

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Valuation of a Company

EBITDA X 3 Cash flow from operations X 5 – 7 DCF of future cash flows (NPV) Asset buy Stock buy Publicly traded stock, higher multiples Lyle Casbrick Wall Street Road Shows, White Knight vs. Venture Capital Real world valuations - problems

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Valuation of a Company Opportunity cost of capital Risk free plus risk and risk vs. return Goodwill Intellectual property P/E ROI EPS Capital appreciation and dividends Distressed company, not a going concern CAPM – discount rate and risk WACC – discount rate Due diligence

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Dell, Inc. Case

Salient to The Dell, Inc. Case; - financial strategies:

1. Dell Working Capital:

Page 1 – 10% - 20% WIP and F.G. Page 1 – Direct send – how does this effect ratios Page 2 – Days supply of Inventory Pages 2,3 – indirect vs. retail Page 3 – liquidity, profitability and growth 1995 – ROIC, CCC, A/R days, inventory days, days of cash conversion

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Dell, Inc. Case

Salient to The Dell, Inc. Case; - financial strategies:

2. Dell, Inc. Investment Strategy:

Page 1 – Stock price, P/E, dividends

Page 4 – Comparisons with competitors

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Dell, Inc. Case

Salient to The Dell, Inc. Case; - financial strategies:

3. Dells Roadblock to Growth:

Page 6,7 – Inventory controls

Page 17 – IBM’s sale to Lenovo, why?

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Dell, Inc. Case

Start-up Growth to Maturity Maturity Restructure

Introduction, market, operations, finance