The treatment of demand loans and deposits is crucial in measuring a bank's actual exposure to the interest rate risk in the banking book. The repricing gap model, the most popular approach to measure this kind of risk, is based on a maturity/repricing schedule, according to which...

Under the new Basel II regulatory framework, the need for an effective risk-adjusted pricing mechanism has become even more central in banking than in the past: banks are spurred to develop risk-adjusted measures, to avoid wasteful customers' cross-subsidization and support the value creation...