15. The table below presents the costs of borrowing for Caterpillar and Tesla, and the a Swap Bank quote against LIBOR. Caterpillar would like to get a $5,000,000.00 floating rate loan. Tesla would like to get a $5,000,000.00 fixed rate loan. How much can Tesla save each year by entering a swap agreement? (a) $37,000 (b) $9,500 (c) $8,000 (d) $27,500 Fixed-Rate Borrowing Cost Floating-Rate Borrowing Cost Caterpillar Tesla 3.00 6.50 LIBOR LIBOR +2.60 Swap Bank Quote Bid Ask 3.19% 3.74% (e) None of the above

ABC Corporation wishes to raise money by selling a 90-day promissory note in the short-term money markets. The note promises to pay the holder $17,000,000 at maturity. If yields on similar risk notes are currently 2.8% p.a., how much money will ABC Corporation receive for the note?   If the purchaser of the note holds it until maturity, what is the total amount of interest they will earn? For the purchaser in 2), what will be the return on investment (ignoring taxes)? Need help answering all these please!

(Motivation for Interest rate swap) National Bank has a $200b Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM) as a liability on its balance sheet. The interest rate on the ARM is 2.34%+Libor. As a result, the bank will have to pay floating interest. The bank is considering hedging the risk in the interest payment to the ARM with a three-year interest rate swap. What will be the Bank's net interest rate of payment if it chooses the right swap? Answer: ____________%.     Euro-€ Swiss franc U. S. dollar Japanese yen Years Bid Ask Bid Ask Bid Ask Bid Ask 2 3.08 3.12 1.68 1.76 5.43 5.46 0.45 0.49 3 3.25 3.29 2.41 2.68 5.78 6.02 0.56 0.59

Green’s Enterprise is contemplating the most feasible method of obtaining financing. It was proposed that the entity should issue a four-year convertible loan note. The loan note will have a nominal value of $100 million, which will have a nominal rate of 4% when the market rate of interest is 10%. The loan will pay interest on annual basis. Required: a. What amounts will be shown as a financial liability and as equity when the convertible loan notes are issued? Show the relevant journal entries. b. What amounts will be shown in the statement of profit or loss and statement of financial position for year two? c. Assuming the loan did not have any conversion features, but was instead issued at a discount of 15% and had issue cost of $4.019 million: i. show the journal entries for the initial issue of the loan ii. determine its carrying value at the end of the each of the four years iii. show the relevant financial statement extracts at the end of the first year

Answer a) and b) Problem 3: Interest Swap Companies A and B have been offered the following rates per annum on a $50 million five-year loan: Company A Company B Floating LIBOR +0.7% LIBOR +1.0% Fixed 6.0% 7.5% Company A requires a floating-rate loan and company B requires a fixed-rate loan. a) Design a swap that will net a bank, acting as an intermediary, 30 basis points (0.3%) per annum and that is equally attractive to the two companies. Illustrate the swap with a diagram. b) Determine the effective financing costs for A and B.

1. Companies A and B have been offered the following rates per annum on a $50 million five-year loan: Company A Company B Fixed rate 4.0% 5.2% Floating rate SOFR+0.2% SOFR+0.6% Company A requires a floating-rate loan; company B requires a fixed-rate loan. Design a swap that will net a financial institute, acting as intermediary, 0.2% per annum and that will appear equally attractive to both companies.

Suppose you are working as a treasurer in Citibank and your bank has taken a PKR250 million loan. The interest on the loan is KIBOR+50bp paid semiannually. The duration of the loan is four years. As you will have to pay interest, you are worried that in the future interest rates are likely to increase and you want to hedge this position by entering into a Swap contract. You ask Bank Al-Habib whether they would be willing to enter into a swap agreement and they send you these semi-annual swap rates: Period Bank Pays Bank Receives 2 years 3.34 3.37 3 years 4.01 4.04 4 years 4.47 4.50 5 years 4.79 4.82 6 years 5.02 5.05   Consider the following questions: What is the company’s cost of funds?

Van Buren Resources Inc. is considering borrowing $90,000 for 175 days from its bank. Van Buren will pay $3,000 of interest at maturity, and it will repay the $90,000 of principal at maturity. Assume that there are 365 days per year. Calculate the loan’s annual financing cost. Round your answer to two decimal places.   % Calculate the loan’s annual percentage rate. Round your answer to two decimal places.   % What is the reason for the difference in your answers to Parts a and b? The  does not consider compounding effects.

A company can borrow funds at LIBOR minus 50 basis points. There is a swap available where one side pays 7% and the other side pays LIBOR-1%. The company is concerned that interest rates will increase and, thus, wants to change the nature of its liability from paying floating to paying fixed rate. What rate can the company pay on its lability after it engages in the swap?

A commercial bank has $200 million of floating-rate loans yielding the T-bill rate plus 2 percent. These loans are financed with $200 million of fixed-rate deposits costing 9 percent. A savings bank has $200 million of mortgages with a fixed rate of 13 percent. They are financed with $200 million in CDs with a variable rate of T-bill rate plus 3 percent. Propose a swap that would result in each institution having the same type of asset and liability cash flows.