Investment decisions of cooperative banks are very restricted to their risk capacity. A well defined and organised Risk Management Process supports those investment activities and assists to achieve a balanced situation between risk and return.Several ways can be chosen to allocate risk capital....

This paper deals with the problem of interpolation of discount factors betweentime buckets. The problem occurs when price and interest rate data of a marketsegment are assigned to discrete time buckets. A simple criterion is developed inorder to identify arbitrage-free robust interpolation...