Moorad Choudhry 
The Principles of Banking 

The ultimate guide for bank management: how to survive and
thrive throughout the business cycle

An essential guide for bankers and students of finance
everywhere, The Principles of Banking reiterates that the
primary requirement of banking–sound capital and liquidity
risk management–had been forgotten in the years prior to the
financial crash. Serving as a policy guide for market practitioners
and regulators at all levels, the book explains the keys to success
that bankers need to follow during good times in order to be
prepared for the bad, providing in-depth guidance and technical
analysis of exactly what constitutes good banking practice.

Accessible to professionals and students alike, The
Principles of Banking covers issues of practical importance to
bank practitioners, including asset-liability management, liquidity
risk, internal transfer pricing, capital management, stress
testing, and more. With an emphasis on viewing business cycles as
patterns of stable and stressful market behavior, and rich with
worked examples illustrating the key principles of bank
asset-liability management, the book is an essential policy guide
for today and tomorrow. It also offers readers access to an
accompanying website holding policy templates and teaching
aids.

* Illustrates how unsound banking practices that were evident in
previous bank crashes were repeated during the creation of the
2007-2008 financial market crisis

* Provides a template that can be used to create a sound
liquidity and asset-liability management framework at any bank

* An essential resource for the international banking community
as it seeks to re-establish its credibility, as well as for
students of finance

* Explains the original principles of banking, including sound
lending policy and liquidity management, and why these need to be
restated in order to avoid another bank crisis at the time of the
next economic recession

* Covers topics of particular importance to students and
academia, many of which are marginally–if
ever–addressed in current text books on finance

* Offers readers access to a companion website featuring
invaluable learning and teaching aids

Written by a banking practitioner with extensive professional
and teaching experience in the field, The Principles of
Banking explains exactly how to get back to basics in risk
management in the banking community, essential if we are to
maintain a sustainable banking industry.

‘engaging and interesting and, more importantly, easily
understood, allowing a clear picture to emerge of how the principle
or concept under discussion is to be applied in the real
world.’

– Graeme Wolvaardt, Head of Market & Liquidity Risk
Control, Europe Arab Bank Plc

Table of Content

Forewords xiii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgements xxiii

About the Author xxv

Part I A Primer On Banking 1

Chapter 1 A primer on bank business and balance sheet risk 3

Chapter 2 Bank regulatory capital 75

Chapter 3 Banking and credit risk 131

Chapter 4 A primer on securitisation 179

Chapter 5 The yield curve 221

Part Ii Bank Asset and Liability Management 351

Chapter 6 Asset-liability management I 353

Chapter 7 Asset-liability management II 385

Chapter 8 Asset-liability management III: Trading and hedging principles 445

Chapter 9 Asset-liability management IV: The ALCO 493

Chapter 10 The ALCO: Terms of reference and treasury operating model 503

Chapter 11 Risk reporting, risk policy and stress testing 531

Part Iii Bank Liquidity Risk Management 587

Chapter 12 Principles of bank liquidity management 589

Chapter 13 Liquidity risk metrics 653

Chapter 14 Liquidity risk reporting and stress testing 687

Chapter 15 Internal funds pricing policy 715

Part Iv Bank Strategy and Governance 759

Chapter 16 Bank strategy I: Formulating strategy and direction 761

Chapter 17 Bank strategy II: Capital and funding management 801

Chapter 18 Principles of corporate governance 831

Part V Applications Software, Policy Templates and Teaching Aids 861

Chapter 19 Applications software, policy templates and spreadsheet models 863

Afterword 867

List of terms and their abbreviations 869

Index 875

About the author

Moorad Choudhry is Treasurer, Corporate Banking Division at The Royal Bank of Scotland. He is Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University; Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University; and Visiting Teaching Fellow at the Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and a Fellow of the ifs-School of Finance. He lives in Surrey, England.